Once upon a time scientists and inventors dressed up in outlandishly old-fashioned clothes and employed outlandishly old-fashioned technology in their contraptions. Turns out, what's old IS new again, ...

WALTHAM, Mass. — A quirky art exhibition called Steampunk, Form & Function recently opened at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation here. But, you might be wondering, what the heck is ...

*Author's note: This first appeared about two years ago at my steampunk novel blog, The Aldersgate Cycle. At the time I was knee deep writing the book of that name, and spent long hours pondering the ...

This two-season urban fantasy series that combined elements of crime and steampunk had everything fans could want in a show.

Steampunk art evokes an alternate reality where steam is the primary source of power. Steampunk art evokes an alternate reality where steam is the primary source of power. Technology, though highly ...

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Steampunk conjures up images of top hats, corsets, petticoats, and aviator goggles from the 19th-century Victorian era, but underneath the surface it's anything but. For the uninitiated, the subgenre ...

Steampunk is a term you’ve probably stumbled across in your internet travels the past few years. But what is steampunk, really? If you were too shy to ask your friends what it’s all about, don’t worry ...

Where there’s steampunk, there’s usually a lot of smoke. Thick, choking billows of diesel exhaust and carcinogenic miasmas go hand-in-hand with the cast-iron chimeras and follies the genre has wrought ...