Why Steampunk is the Little Black Dress of Speculative Fiction

Steampunk is a weird, niche little genre, when you think about it. Merriam-Webster defines it as “science fiction dealing with 19th-century ...

steampunk - Kristen Brand

Steampunk is a weird, niche little genre, when you think about it. Merriam-Webster defines it as “science fiction dealing with 19th-century societies dominated ...

An explanation of what Steampunk means to different people

The word 'steampunk' started life as a whimsical, off-the-cuff label to try and sell novels, but has now evolved to represent everything from a 19th-century ...

What is Steampunk? - ISU CEWT Blog - Idaho State University

It has its own fashion, its own fictional canon expanding into literature and video games, and even its own genre of music. So what is steampunk ...

Is Steampunk classified as a genre of Science Fiction or Fantasy? If ...

Steampunk is more of a style than a genre nowadays. Dress someone in a black duster, slap a leather hat on their head and then add brass and ...

History of Steampunk - Reddit

It was called by some as Neo-Victorian futurism. Initial science fiction works were inspired by the 19th century Victorian era. Many significant ...

Turning Steampunk from Aesthetic to Genre, made me realize why ...

It made a lot more sense when it was first being made -- a lot of folks cite Jules Verne (and to a degree, HG Wells) as the father(s) of what ...

a look at the steampunk sub-culture | AFROPUNK

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by ...

What Is Steampunk All About?

There have been a lot of works of fiction throughout the 20th century that tried to ape the look and aesthetic of classic Victorian science- ...

The Steampunk Revolution and Victorian History

Unlike mainstream science fiction where stories are typically placed in the far future, where they need only have a plausible path to their ...

SFE: Steampunk - SF Encyclopedia

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ... There were small but steady accretions to the list of Steampunk books ...

Being Black and Female in Steampunk

I know people who dress and act steampunk ... Pingback: Diasporic Blackness and Revising Steampunk Characters | Midwest Black Speculative Fiction ...

Steampunk and Cyberpunk: the differences

Cyberpunk fashion is all about urban fashion mixed with futuristic makeover. It often features a base of dark colors, or full black outfits. The most common ...

Punking the Past: The Steampunk Aesthetic | The Victorianist

These early works synthesize Victorian science fiction with the social problem novel and punk the past by often shifting focus on rebels and ...

Steampunk: An Introduction - Plainsman Museum

In its simplest form, "steampunk" is Victorian era science fiction - using technologies, socio-political conditions, aesthetics and philosophies ...

What is Steampunk? - Association of Ishtar

Cyberpunk was a very popular sub-genre of Science Fiction at the time. But instead of exploring a galaxy of interstellar empires like in Star ...

Steampunk: the future of the past | William Gibson - The Guardian

While fans of speculative fiction are not known for their adherence to high fashion, the genre produces no end of trends to follow. In recent ...

Steampunk - Wikipedia

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century ...

Steampunk | Aesthetics Wiki - Fandom

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates technology and designs inspired by 19th-century fashion and industrial machinery

Subgenre deep dive: Steampunk - The British Fantasy Society

Steampunk is science fiction and historical fantasy mashed together. ... Steampunk takes the speculative further by introducing fantasy elements, ...