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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.
Others argued explicitly against turning steampunk into a political movement, [172] preferring to see steampunk as "escapism" [173] or a "fandom". [174] In 2018, Nick Ottens, editor of the online alternate-history magazine Never Was , declared that the "lighter side" of steampunk had won out. [ 175 ]
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 ...
2010 - The Steampunk World's Fair was first held May 14–16, 2010 at the Radisson Hotel, Piscataway, New Jersey. Nearly 3,000 people attended this first year. 2011 - The second annual SPWF was held May 20–22, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Somerset, New Jersey.
The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure who, as is portrayed in the book, was a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities "undertaken in the service of Her Majesty". [2]
The following articles deal with the steampunk genre of science fiction, which can be considered a spinoff of cyberpunk. Subcategories. This category has the ...
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology [1] [2] and postmodern sensibilities. [3]
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]