- In an alternate world where steam-powered machines, gadgets and ingenious inventions – from jet packs to flying airships – abound in a neo-Victorian society lies a group of freedom fighters. Led by ...

*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 ...

It was during the 2010 ConDor sci-fi and fantasy convention atthe Handlery Hotel in San Diego that organizers noticed a welcomesight they hadn’t seen in a few years: Attendees were showing up ...

Of all the design aesthetics that have ebbed and flowed over the years, few generate the reaction of steampunk. Many people identify it as an unfortunate outgrowth of the hippie era, and indeed that's ...

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At the intersection of history, fantasy and technology sits steampunk. Originally a subgenre of sci-fi, steampunk is notable for featuring steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology. And ...

This week Voyageur Press released Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film and Other Victorian Visions, because of course a coffee table book about steampunk would have ...

The Victorian Age has long since declared victory over the brains of many science fiction lovers. An alternate history, in which the British Empire was accompanied by fantastical steam-powered ...

Lori Vander-Maten knew one day that she would be involved in a stage version of the MGM classic film “The Wizard of Oz.” “I’ve had a love affair with ‘The Wizard of Oz’ since I was a kid and we would ...

Has steampunk jumped Captain Nemo’s clockwork shark yet? The genre — succinctly described as a mix of archaic tech (either real or fanciful), the supernatural, and postmodern metafictional ...

A metal sculpture packed in a checked suitcase sparked a bomb scare at Germany's biggest airport after inspectors mistook part of a visual design for a live hand grenade. United flight 814 was headed ...