![]() Wells, the so-called paterfamilias of the genre that lived through the latter part of the era. The Steampunk Bible begins in the beginning, of course, with Jules Verne and H.G. Steampunk is a genre of fiction-whose stories are articulated in books, comics, and movies-and also includes the art, fashion, and subculture they inspire. ![]() It is based on wild adventures, replete with mad scientists, steam-powered robots, dirigibles, and heroes in leather jackets and goggles saving corset-wearing damsels in distress. ![]() More precisely, it is a version of retro-futurism (the view of the future through the eyes of the recent past) that uses technology available to the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), particularly with regard to scientific discovery (such as steam engines, electrical current, and magnetism), as well as clockwork mechanical devices, in order to anachronistically re-create the important inventions of the more recent past, the present, or the future. In short, Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that overlaps historical fiction. ![]() What is Steampunk? This book spends the introductory chapter attempting to define and explain the term, ending up with a very unrefined, all-inclusive definition. ![]()
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