both of these are based on what I saw on the Steampunk episode of the series Make1. It was said that Steampunk is an idealized Victorian era*, the way things should have been
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Went and wiki'd the term steampunk because I'd never heard of it before. Now, I've actually seen/own/read a few of the things classified as steampunk according to wiki (a novel about the South having AK-47s comes to mind), but I admit to sharing the confusion about the popularity of it
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>the South having AK-47s comes to mind that's time travel.
steampunk is imagining if, instead of switching to oil and batteries, technology continued to advance - instead using lots and lots of gears and steam.
>and I'd hate the traditional role of a woman back then then don't be a traditional one - hell, one very nearly became the US President back then.
Yeah, I suppose that one is. I never did get very far with the book, but I think I had something else like it (but different as well.) I did read about Wild Wild West, and that I remembered seeing, as well as the League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which were listed as examples.
Yes, well, I have no desire to be a politician, but I like to think I'd be different, not traditional.
Steampunk is set in the Victorian era but it is not an 'idealised' version - it is a version in which modern technology is accomplished with the science and engineering available at the time. Probably the first, most famous and archtypical book in this genre is Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine which imagined a Victorian Britain which had been computerised using steam and people powered versions of Burbage's difference engine. I suspect that the 'punk' part of the 'steampunk' label came about because both authors were at the forefront of the cyberpunk sub-genre.
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I don't know about the surface of Mars, but hydrogen peroxide is stuff women use to find out whether blondes have more fun.
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that's time travel.
steampunk is imagining if, instead of switching to oil and batteries, technology continued to advance - instead using lots and lots of gears and steam.
>and I'd hate the traditional role of a woman back then
then don't be a traditional one - hell, one very nearly became the US President back then.
also, no need to apologize.
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Yes, well, I have no desire to be a politician, but I like to think I'd be different, not traditional.
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