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Steampunk fiction

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us: Steampunk fiction



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    • found: Work cat.: Steampunk, 2008.
    • found: Gibson, W. The difference engine, 1991.
    • found: Time, Dec. 14, 2009: pp. 82, 84 ("Steampunk has been around for at least 30 years ... An early example is K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night ... Steampunk--Jeter coined the name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine ... Scores of steampunk novels were published this year.")
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 8, 2009 ("Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used--usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England--but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date ... Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely"; steampunk fiction; steampunk genre)
    • found: MLA international bibliography, via ProQuest, Dec. 8, 2009: MLA thesaurus (steampunk)

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    • PN3448.S73
    • PN6120.95.S69

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    • 2009-12-09: new
    • 2010-06-25: revised

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