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Steampunk'd is an American reality television series broadcast by Game Show Network. The series, hosted by Jeannie Mai , premiered August 19, 2015. The contestants (called "makers") are crafters and designers who specialize in the steampunk genre.
Author G. D. Falksen, wearing a steampunk-styled arm prosthesis (created by Thomas Willeford), exemplifying one take on steampunk fashion. Steampunk fashion has no set guidelines but tends to synthesize modern styles with influences from the Victorian era.
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction, 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 ...
[14] [15] As a result, he was invited to serve as one of the three judges on the first-ever network Steampunk-themed reality show, Game Show Network's Steampunk'd in 2015. King cites his Steampunk influces as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H.P. Lovecraft, K.W. Jeter, [12] Robert Howard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and China Mieville, [16] among others.
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]
In 2015, Mai hosted the reality competition Steampunk'd on GSN. She was also a fashion correspondent on Entertainment Tonight. In 2016, Mai brought her show How Do I Look? to Asia's Diva network. The following year, she portrayed Lady Luck on the American game show The Joker's Wild. Mai also became an ambassador for ReimagineMyself.com a ...
The following articles deal with the steampunk genre of science fiction, which can be considered a spinoff of cyberpunk. Subcategories. This category has the ...
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]