All you ever wanted to know about Steampunk

So, what is Steampunk?

Steam punk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century powered machinery.

Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, such works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century.

The British Victorian era or American “Wild West”.

in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk may, therefore, be described as neo-Victorian. Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era’s perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, and Stephen Hunt

 Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships,analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as the Analytical Engine.

Steam punk may also incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre.

The first known appearance of the term steampunk was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created even as far back as the 1950s or 1960s.

Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures, that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th century. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical  style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steam punk.

The Steampunk look and feel is a unique and intelligent combination of the following factors:

Vintage, an “old era” feel

Industrial, machine, factory like

Cold design, on one hand, along with a warm, mine like light bulbs for that uniqe atmosphere you cannot find next door

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