While strict steampunk is somewhat rare, many great movies are inspired by the genre's fascination with alternate history and ...

Steampunk retro-futuristic approach to technology and ethical exploration of industrial revolution has inspired many great TV ...

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 ...

*Author's note: This first appeared about two years ago at my steampunk novel blog, The Aldersgate Cycle. At the time I was knee deep writing the book of that name, and spent long hours pondering the ...

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, ...

The steampunk genre has always been a beloved sci-fi staple, even if some of its greatest big-screen examples have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jake Von Slatt's steampunk persona is of a gentleman scientist tinkering on his clockwork contraptions, hoping to one day present his discoveries to the Royal Academy in London. By day Linux systems ...