{"id":2480,"date":"2011-09-01T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"steampunk-what-it-is-what-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/steampunk-what-it-is-what-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk – What It Is, What it’s Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been a fan of Science Fiction since I was old enough to pick up a book and read it for myself.\u00a0 Normally I prefer hard science Sci-Fi to any form of fantasy.\u00a0 However I have been captivated by the old Wild, Wild West television show and movies such as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/strong><\/em> and books like Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/strong><\/em> and From the Earth to the Moon<\/strong><\/em>, H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon <\/strong><\/em>and The Time Machine<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 All of these combine a Victorian environment with high-tech achievement but without high technology.\u00a0 Confused?\u00a0 So was I when I first heart the term “Steampunk”.<\/p>\n

The ‘punk’ part misguided my brain onto thinking it was some urban-new wave sort of stuff and I paid it no mind.\u00a0 But as the term was bandied around more, I became curious, and found that it is in fact that odd, red-headed\u00a0 stepchild of Sci-Fi with which I was so fascinated.\u00a0 But I still was not clear on what the rules were; where are the boundaries.\u00a0 Then I came across this PBS mini-documentary that cleared it up nicely.\u00a0 If you are less than certain, I hope it will do the same for you.<\/p>\n