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steampunk
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thumb|upright|Original illustration of Jules Verne's Nautilus engine room
Steampunk is a science fiction genre and aesthetic that reimagines history with advanced steam-powered technology, inspired by the industrial era and classic works like those of Jules Verne. It matters as a creative movement that influences literature, art, fashion, and design, allowing people to explore imaginative "what-if" scenarios about how technology might have developed differently.
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- Modern steampunk
- Japanese steampunk
- Relationships to retrofuturism, DIY craft and making
- Art, entertainment, and media
- Art and design
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thumb|upright|Original illustration of Jules Verne's Nautilus engine room
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and aesthetics prominently inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery and design. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American frontier where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power.
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