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Do us old farts a favor and explain "Steampunk." Is there a movie or TV show, book that embraces the gestalt of the notion? I see jury-rigged derigibles, floating rocks with buildings... I don't get it. Is it like a retro-future deal? Modern technology with Jules Verne nomenclature? If it includes Timmy then it must be banished! :^)
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The Blue Knight wrote:Do us old farts a favor and explain "Steampunk." Is there a movie or TV show, book that embraces the gestalt of the notion? I see jury-rigged derigibles, floating rocks with buildings... I don't get it. Is it like a retro-future deal? Modern technology with Jules Verne nomenclature? If it includes Timmy then it must be banished! :^)
This thread from Classic-Space asks the same question, and has many answers, some written by me. Razumikhin's (username Jonesy on CC) reply (on page 2) includes some good links as well.
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The Blue Knight wrote:Do us old farts a favor and explain "Steampunk."
Here ya go.

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That's a wealth of material. Bruce, I have a love/hate relationship with Wiki. While I love the way you can drill down, I hate what it does to my productivity at work. I started with Steampunk and ended 2 hours later reading Wiki's entry on Watchmen, one of my fav comics, at 1:30am!

I get it now. I see this as a difficult (and therefore rewarding) genre to build in. I don't care for De Laurentis' "Dune" (wasn't that in '84?), mainly because of the 30's-Art-deco-in-decline design, but I do recognize it as a masterpiece of costume/set design. The characters look as if they stepped out of an ersatz Flash Gordon serial. I at least recognized 80% of the Wiki references. I don't care for the "punk" element now. I went through that phase in the '80's, and I'm much more hopeful for the future now.

I think in the end I prefer something truly futuristic. The again what is futurisic today may be 22nd century "gaspunk" or "petrolpunk" refering to our reliance on petrolium now. Hey, did I just coin a new term?

Thanks for the links gentlemen
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