Ragtopjohnny opened this issue on Jan 21, 2012 · 42 posts
SamTherapy posted Sat, 21 January 2012 at 8:10 PM
Khai, I fully agree with you but - as you probably know by now - I love to push buttons, hence my signature.
Not too sure about Time Machine and War of the Worlds being Steampunk, though. That's a big fat retcon if ever there was one. Far as anyone knew, they were SF, straightforward. Contemporary with their times, which was close to if not actually in the Victorian era. By extension, any contemporary SF written now will be called Early 21st Century Techpunk. See? Silly, ain't it?
FWIW, I bought the Oddputer from the MP some time back, long before people started coming out with Steampunk plane/dog/cat/knickers/sex aids. That's more like a "What if the PC had been invented in the 1950s", though.
Finally, a really good take on the genre is Luther Arkwright, which isn't set entirely in Victorian times. Some is in the here and now and most of it happens in alternate universes.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.