I first heard "steampunk" used in connection with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's *The Difference Engine, *which was published in 1990. At the time, I thought adding tech to the Victorian Age was ...

Once upon a time scientists and inventors dressed up in outlandishly old-fashioned clothes and employed outlandishly old-fashioned technology in their contraptions. Turns out, what's old IS new again, ...

While most fashion aficionados are currently looking to CBGB and the 1970s for style inspiration, a different set of “punks” are eyeing H.G. Wells and the 1870s. They’re called steampunks, a term ...

Steampunk art evokes an alternate reality where steam is the primary source of power. Steampunk art evokes an alternate reality where steam is the primary source of power. Technology, though highly ...

Steampunk is a term you’ve probably stumbled across in your internet travels the past few years. But what is steampunk, really? If you were too shy to ask your friends what it’s all about, don’t worry ...

Steampunk conjures up images of top hats, corsets, petticoats, and aviator goggles from the 19th-century Victorian era, but underneath the surface it's anything but. For the uninitiated, the subgenre ...

Start with some people who are interested in history, science fiction and fantasy, and dress them up in 19th-century clothing. Attach some manners, music and anachronistic gadgetry, and add a bit of ...

Where there’s steampunk, there’s usually a lot of smoke. Thick, choking billows of diesel exhaust and carcinogenic miasmas go hand-in-hand with the cast-iron chimeras and follies the genre has wrought ...

There are several ways to my heart. Chocolate, esports shirts, pretty DnD dice, and dystopian, steampunk RPGs with cyberpunk flair. While the first three are relatively easy to come by, the latter, ...

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