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4 unusual facts about Steampunk


Gil Formosa

More recently, Formosa returned to comics, illustrating three Steampunk graphic novels featuring the character of Robur created by Jules Verne: With writer Jean-Marc Lofficier, he began the Robur series at Albin Michel in 2003.

James Blaylock

Sharing the character of villain Ignacio Narbondo; the first is contemporary fantasy set in 1960s California, while the remainder are Steampunk novels set in Victorian England.

Michelle Black

Black is an active participant in the Steampunk movement, frequently appearing at Steampunk conventions like Steamcon and writing articles on the topic.

Toby Slater

Slater and the band are also curators of London’s "new vaudeville" Steampunk club night, White Mischief.


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Bats Day in the Fun Park

Other dark subcultures represented at the event include Horror Punk, Horror Rock, Halloween, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Black metal, Steampunk, Hearse Societies, Industrial and EBM.

Cherie Priest

Priest has expanded her style to include the Steampunk genre, which can be best described as a fantastical Neo-Victorian alternate history often involving modern technology powered by nineteenth century means.

John Faa

In The Raiders, Faa is placed as a contemporary in south-west Scotland with of Grierson of Lag during the Killing Times, while in His Dark Materials he is moved to southern England in an alternate, somewhat Steampunk universe into a time which is apparently contemporary with our own.

Khuda-Yana

Thereby, Khuda-Yana's world is a well cared mixture, a pastiche, a collage of genders and styles – pirates, One Thousand and One Nights, Greek mythology, Jules Verne's steampunk from sci-fi, and fantasy to a few anachronisms for comedy sake – i.e. making Khuda talking through a modern cell-phone or wearing a modern cheerleader outfit for a short gag.

Oh Perilous World

The storyline of Oh Perilous World, essentially, is an audit of six years of post-9/11 America and its domestic and foreign policies under President George W. Bush's administration, but told through a fictional steampunk parallel universe.

Øystein Runde

The steampunk action comedy took advantage of the fact that four of Norway's 18th century writers, Henrik Ibsen, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Alexander Kielland and Jonas Lie are collectively called "the grand four".

Regressionism

Primitivism, steampunk and Stuckism are just a few nuances of a very complex, interdisciplinary and often discordant phenomenon.

Reyne

Jordan Reyne, experimental musician from New Zealand, described as “industrial-tinged folk” and “antipodean Steampunk”

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

British writer Michael Moorcock later used the character, or at least the name, of Oswald Bastable for the hero and first-person narrator of his trilogy A Nomad of the Time Streams, published from 1971 until 1981, an influence on the nascent genre of steampunk.

The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack

The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack is the first novel in the Burton & Swinburne trilogy by award-winning steampunk author, Mark Hodder, and the recipient of the 2010 Phillip K. Dick Award.

Voyages Extraordinaires

Their spirit has also continued to influence fiction to this day, including James Gurney's Dinotopia series and "softening" Steampunk's dystopianism with utopian wonder and curiosity.


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