Steam Punk

A subgenre of Science Fiction, in which radical technological advance takes place in the early industrial era; the name comes from the fusion of Cyber Punk's edgy techno-noir with, well, steam engines.

• http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
• http://www.geocities.com/i_am_the_cheese/STEAMPUNK.html
• http://republika.pl/steampunk/chrono02.html a chronology of steampunk works
• http://www.angelfire.com/tv/sarahlegend/ American West steampunk
• http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9094/STEAM2.html
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Phil_Masters/steampnk.htm
• http://www.steam-trek.com/ "Ether, the final frontier ..."
• http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/ Robots of the Victorian Era

Major works:

• 'The Wild Wild West' (60s US TV show, 90s US film)
• 'Queen Victoria's Bomb', Ronald Clark
• 'Pavane', Keith Roberts
• 'A Nomad of the Time Streams' trilogy, Michael Moorcock
• 'A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!', Harry Harrison
• (?) 'Laputa Castle In The Sky', dir. Hayao Miyazaki (movie)
• 'Back To The Future Part III', dir. Robert Zemeckis? (movie)
• 'The Difference Engine?' William Gibson and Bruce Sterling - arguably the classic work of Steam Punk
• 'The Time Ships?', Stephen Baxter
• The Steampunk Trilogy?, Paul Di Filippo
• (?) 'The Diamond Age', Neal Stephenson
• League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore (comic book series)
• (?) 'The Light Ages', Ian R Mac Leod
• I think TLA probably isn't steampunk; there's really very little technology, and too much magic. On the other hand, it looks like the sequel (Electricity) will see the industrialisation of aether-driven England, so that may well turn out to have a place on this list.
• 'Seventy Two Letters?', Ted Chiang

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