Steampunk

Cynthia and I went to the California Steampunk Convention this weekend.

Wrist computer (non-functional) from Got Steam?

In a recent piece for Fantasy Magazine, Stephen H. Segal wrote on why Steampunk is popular:

  1. It’s equal opportunity geekery for women and men.
  2. An aesthetic response to the glossy surfaces and clean lines of contemporary SF media
  3. It’s like being goth, without scaring your parents.

Someone asked me what the Steampunk Convention was, and they got it when I said, “it’s like the Dickens’ Fair.” That’s easier than explaining Steampunk as a subgenre of Science Fiction that became an aesthetic movement.

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