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There is a broad range of musical influences that make up the steampunk sound, from industrial dance and world music [79] to folk rock, dark cabaret to straightforward punk, [121] Carnatic [122] to industrial, hip-hop to opera (and even industrial hip-hop opera), [123] [124] darkwave to progressive rock, barbershop to big band.
williamgibsonbooks.com. William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology ...
Steampunk fashion. Steampunk fashion is a subgenre of the steampunk movement in science fiction. It is a mixture of the Victorian era 's romantic view of science in literature and elements from the Industrial Revolution in Europe during the 1800s. Steampunk fashion consists of clothing, hairstyling, jewellery, body modification and make-up.
China Miéville. China Tom Miéville FRSL (/ miˈeɪvəl / mee-AY-vəl, born 6 September 1972 [1][2][3]) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird. Miéville has won multiple awards for his fiction ...
Thomas Willeford. Thomas Dean Willeford V (born October 29, 1964) is a steampunk writer, artist and maker. He is known for his work appearing on television and for his book Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos. [1] He lives and works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, doing business as Brute Force Studios. [1][2][3] His steampunk subculture persona is ...
James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. [1] He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations.
Steampunk author Sara M. Harvey made the distinction that decopunk is "shinier than dieselpunk;" more specifically, dieselpunk is "a gritty version of steampunk set in the 1920s–1950s" (i.e., the war eras), whereas decopunk "is the sleek, shiny very art deco version; same time period, but everything is chrome!" [39]
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found ...