Steampunk

Steampunk is a literary genre which explores science fiction themes from the perspective of the Victorian era and based on technology extrapolated from the science and engineering capabilities of the 18th and 19th centuries. It has its earliest roots in the speculative writing of Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle. It emerged as a distinct modern literary movement in the 1980s with the work of writers like James P. Blaylock, Greg Keyes and Neal Stephenson. It has influenced a number of movies, produced magazines, conventions, roleplaying games, comic books and graphic novels and even spawned a significant fashion and design movement.

For a good article with an overview of the movement see The World of Steampunk. A good source for Steampunk fashion info is Outsapop Trashion. There are some amazing examples of steampunk design projects at Steampunk Workshop.

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• Excuse Me Madame

  
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• Beasts of bone and steel

  
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• Have you learned to share?

  
  Brave new world — Authority: 112
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• catena wall clock tells time with bike chain

  
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• 11/14/09: Kinetic Steam Works Festival | Oakland

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 491
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• Wimshurst Machine Remade: Still Does Nothing, Still Looks Sensational

  
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• Steampunk my Christmas: Cards

  
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• CD Review: The Asylum Street Spankers – God’s Favorite Band

  
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• Guest Blogger Sundays: Natasha Suter

  
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  Today I welcome talented jewellery designer Natasha Suter as my guest. Based out of Wayne, NJ, Natasha is both the creator and designer of Capricious Adornments and its trendier sister shop, Swank. In her writing piece, The Romance and Mystery of Steampunk , Natasha explains what the "Steampunk" trend is all about: ...
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• Kalinin K-7: the giant plane that might have been

  
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• November Sale

  
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• Awesome LEGO-Steampunk Yacht

  
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• Steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science,...

  
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  Steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science , University of Oxford.
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• Article Title Unknown

  
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• nano excerpt

  
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  Maxwell’s goal was the very back of his laboratory, next to the drafting table. Uriel’s hibernation put him standing against the wall. For extra safety, Maxwell had had him strap himself into a set of electro-magnetic cuffs at the wrists, the waist, the neck. “This is Uriel.” Samin looked the man up and down, ...
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• Steampunk heute abend in Arte Tracks

  
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  Heute abend ist Arte Tracks voller Jules Verne und Steampunk. 23:20 Uhr, Pflichttermin für Monokelträger, die ihr Laptop mit Dampf betreiben. Die Bibel der Dampf-Anarchisten stammt aus der Feder von Jules Verne, der im 19. Jahrhunderts fantastische Expeditionsromane schreibt. Doch der Begriff “Steampunk“ ...
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• handa:WebUrbanist - Mods: 26 Sexy Steampunk Hi-tech Hacks

  
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  handa : WebUrbanist - Mods: 26 Sexy Steampunk Hi-tech Hacks
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• YET ANOTHER COOL BRAIN IN THE JAR PROP

  
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• Steam Punk

  
  Rock 'n Roll Bride — Authority: 564
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• Boneshaker / Cherie Priest

  
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