A Steampunk Chronicle
By
Dylan M. Walsh
Book I: Delirium
Steampunk
Steampunk
is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in
the 1980s and early 1990s. The term
denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-
usually the 19th century and often set in Victorian era England- but
with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional
technological inventions like those found in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules
Verne, or the real technological developments like the computer occurring at an
earlier date. Other examples of
steampunk contain alternate history style presentations of “the path not taken”
of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are
presented in an idealize light, or a presumption of functionality...
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