The Steampunk Sublimation
Last night I watched the DVD of "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" starring Sean O'Connery based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore. This story comes under that new genre called Steampunk.
It is a "sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery,[especially in a setting inspired by industrialised Western civilization during the 19th century".
Thus steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of Victorian Britain or the Wild West Of America (Hence the film "Cowboys v. Aliens"). or in a post-apocalyptic future in which steam power has become the mainstream usage of that era. Alan Moore's use of the tropes of steampunk throws up such incongruous fictional characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, an invisible man, a vampire, an immortal such as Dorian Gray, and Captain Nemo of the Nautilus into one story casting them as superheroes and supervillains , and for good measure he evens throws in the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty.
Anyway, It was a very entertaining film.
The Doctor Who series,also incorporates elements of steampunk into the design of the time machine, The TARDIS.
The revamped time machine was first presented in the 1996 American co-production when the TARDIS interior was re-designed to resemble an almost Victorian library with the central control console made up of eclectic and anachronistic objects. Modified and streamlined for the 2005 revival of the series, the TARDIS console continues to incorporate steampunk elements, including a Victorian typewriter and gramophone.
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It is a "sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery,[especially in a setting inspired by industrialised Western civilization during the 19th century".
Thus steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of Victorian Britain or the Wild West Of America (Hence the film "Cowboys v. Aliens"). or in a post-apocalyptic future in which steam power has become the mainstream usage of that era. Alan Moore's use of the tropes of steampunk throws up such incongruous fictional characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, an invisible man, a vampire, an immortal such as Dorian Gray, and Captain Nemo of the Nautilus into one story casting them as superheroes and supervillains , and for good measure he evens throws in the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty.
Anyway, It was a very entertaining film.
The Doctor Who series,also incorporates elements of steampunk into the design of the time machine, The TARDIS.
The revamped time machine was first presented in the 1996 American co-production when the TARDIS interior was re-designed to resemble an almost Victorian library with the central control console made up of eclectic and anachronistic objects. Modified and streamlined for the 2005 revival of the series, the TARDIS console continues to incorporate steampunk elements, including a Victorian typewriter and gramophone.
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