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Romancing the Steam
“Steampunk!? That’s so last year!”
It’s so last century and a half, actually, but who’s counting? Apparently, a few people are counting, as someone always chimes in with this sentiment whenever we post anything to the MAKE blog from the alternative-Victorian subculture known as steampunk. But while some are sounding the death knell of steampunk (we hope it’s a brass bell they’re clanging), we suspect many readers may not even know what it is yet.
Steampunk traces its literary roots to the dime novels of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and the invention-adventure tales of the late 1800s eventually dubbed Edisonades. In the 1980s, sci-fi and fantasy writers like K.W. Jeter, James P. Blaylock, and Tim Powers ...
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