#steampunk fiction

[kingmakerpod]

[silvandar]

Do you like Steampunk, Time Travel, snd Dickensian characters? Then I have a book series for you!

The series follows the adventures of Oliver Twist, an orphan with a talent for trouble and a time travelling pocket watch.

You can find info and purchase links at www.brentaharris.com

The latest book, "Twisted Expectations", is due out soon, and I'm lucky enough to be a beta reader!

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

The Old West, 1870s/1880s, Seattle. Except. Not quite. It’s been turned into a walled city. Walling in, well, quite a bit. There’s zombies, there’s pirates, and there’s the amazing characters. Briar Wilkes’ son Zeke wants to clear his dead father’s name (his father supposedly did something that caused a toxic gas to be released. That gas is what turned people into ‘rotters’ aka zombies (also, whew and eww to those things. Wow.) Except, as Briar goes to try and save her son, she finds that, maybe her dead husband Leviticus Blue isn’t so dead?

This was a bunch of steampunk goodness, with characters that leapt off the page at me, and the world building that was just amazing (if, as I said, on occasion a little icky). It also was a compact and fast moving plot. There wasn’t must extra anywhere, and, that made it a definite page turner. Such a fun, fun read. And, awesomely enough, there are other books in the Clockwork Century series/universe too! Very exciting.

You may like this book If you Liked: The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher, or An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

[scipunk]

Love, Death & Robots - S1E8 - Good Hunting (2019)

[soranatus]

A sneak peak at the visual development for Leviathan (2025) at Anime Expo 2024

[blogfanreborn777]

Zaun by Patrick Faulwetter

[bedrockfactory]

The industrial age au is my latest obsession btw.

[stuff-diary]

I can't believe Arcane is ending forever in like two days 😭😭😭

[20kmemesunderthesea]

"Leagues of Love: a Steampunk Dating Sim" is a romantic adventure based off of Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” and “The Mysterious Island,” with references to other works by the father of contemporary science fiction.

Play as a plucky adventurer out to seek her fortune— and find some romance along the way!

When your ship collides with a mysterious oceanic cryptid, your only hope of rescue comes from a handsome, brooding submarine Captain with a dark past. 

Thrust into an enclosed space within a weaponized scientific vessel along with a group of neurodivergent men (all of whom have acceptable hygiene practices), who could conceive a more promising environment in which for love to blossom?

Who will capture your heart?

Will it be the dignified and enigmatic Captain Nemo?

The curious and tender-hearted Professor Pierre Aronnax?

The Professor’s soft-spoken but fiercely loyal assistant, Conseil?

The petulant but courageous whaler, Ned Land?

Your objective is simply to spend time getting to know the characters in order to decide which one you might favor. You may interact with any of the characters as much or as little as you like while ultimately ending up with the man of your dreams — or perhaps instead of finding love, you will choose to simply become a Nautilus crew member. You may even find an opportunity to marry for money!

Along the way, you will unravel mysteries, fight sea monsters, explore uncharted territories and face natural hazards. 

If you should perchance meet your untimely demise, (you may brave human laws, but you cannot resist natural ones) you can select “Try again?” to backtrack to your last critical choice. 

Otherwise you can select “Start Over?” to restart the game from the beginning.

You determine your story’s narrative, and it may be different every time you play. Your own sublime destiny is up to you! 

MOBILIS IN MOBILI!

[educationaldm]

Fonts by Genre.

This might be useful to some of you.

From Other Atlas.

[alpaca-clouds]

The History of Cyberpunk

Or why every other SciFi Genre is called [something]punk

You know what? Let's do this. Because I have seen the discussion on whether or not Solarpunk is "punk" over the last few days and... people really gotta learn their history.

The first time a genre took the "punk" name was Cyberpunk. And for context we gotta talk a bit about the history of the Cyberpunk genre.

While some books that we in hindsight call "Cyberpunk" were released as early as the 1960s, the start of Cyberpunk as a genre got its start in the late 70s and early 80s.

The term was invented by Bruce Bethke, who published a short story in 1983 with the name "Cyberpunk". His idea was to juxtapose the term "punk" for both the mentality and the punk protagonists in his short story with the term cyber, short for the cybernetics they were wearing. And while the cybernetics have become a main stay in the genre, the punk attitudes are not always carried through...

Well, the title Bethke invented stuck, though. When 1984 Neuromancer was published, one of the most influencial works in the early days of the genre, he called it "a Cyberpunk novel" in the marketing. And from there... Well, the genre was suddenly named like that.

The 80s were definitely the decade that had the most influence on the genre, given that a lot of the big novels and graphic novels of the genre were released here.

A big influence was, no doubt, that 1982 the Blade Runner movie had released and had inspired quite a few writers and artists. (And yes, this makes Blade Runner a movie that released not only before the term Cyberpunk was coined, but also before the genre had a chance to define itself.)

Given that the genre was defined in the 80s, there are a lot of 80s anxiety kept within it about the rise of the Japanese economy, that are these days rarely questioned within the western Cyberpunk movement.

When the genre was coined and developed, Japan was the fastest growing economy in the world, being so influencial that they got to buy out several things in America. Something that kinda jerked white people in the US a lot. This is, why Cyberpunk originally depicted not only a capitalist hellscape - but specifically a capitalist hellscape were everything was bought out by Japanese companies, with many of those early antagonists being Japanese companies. And yeah... there was a lot of both anti-japanese racism, but also cultural appropriation of Japanese things in early Cyberpunk, at time surviving to this day. (But that is a story for another day.)

The general sense that Western Cyberpunk had, was always the idea of: We have a capitalist hellscape where the world is slowly dying and people are exploited with no end, while we have those kinda punky protagonists, who stand outside of the society and try to work against it. This being where the punk comes from.

Now, I could talk for length about how a lot of that punky attitude has been lost in more modern Cyberpunk media, but that, too, is a story for another day.

So, let me just talk about what happened then.

The term Cyberpunk really is darn catchy, right? So just when that name took hold, writer K.W. Jeter retroactively called his 1979 novel Morlock Night "steampunk". And guess what: This stuck, too. Though while the 80s Cyberpunk still stuck to the punk attitude, a lot of Steampunk did not. While for certain there is quite a bit of Steampunk that has kinda punky characters go against the quasi Victorian society of steampunk books (something most common in the air pirate novels I have read), a lot of other stories are more focused on a general sense of adventure.

But never the less... The genre names stuck and gave a nice baseline for naming other genre. We got Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Nanopunk, Arcanepunk, Dustpunk, Silkpunk and of course also Solarpunk and Lunarpunk.

And for the most part... The "punk" names mostly communicate: "It is SciFi with this kinda aesthetic/twist going on". Which is just how it turned out.

Funnily enough Solarpunk is for once a genre that brings back the punk, as it tends to include a lot of the ideals aspired to by the Punk counter culture of the 1970s: Anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-consumerism, anti-classism, anti-racism, anti-colonialism and so on. Though other than with Cyberpunk and the real world punk movement, Solarpunk for the most part imagines a place, where those things are culture instead of counter culture.

I personally find it kinda sad, how for the most part Cyberpunk kinda lost a lot of the counter-cultural, revolutionary mindset. And how fucking defeatist the genre often is.

But again, it is a story for another day. Just as the story of Japanese Cyberpunk is.

[chimeride]

Are you familiar with the book series Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld? It's an alternate history series set in WW1 that features plenty of fascinating bio-engineered creatures.

Hydrogen Sniffer, the 237th Known One.

[youare-number6]

Retro-Futuristic Trains in the City - Pt 4

More streamliners, somewhat closer to the real inspiration

[wakingdreamworld]

Sailing Ships - With and Without Anti-Grav - Pt 5

Harsh industrial style

[soranatus]

A new look at LEVIATHAN (2025) From the Studio Orange reel 2024

[blogfanreborn777]

Frankenstein's Monster by Alexey Egorov