Welcome to Steampunctober

For October I thought it would be fun to deep our toes in Steampunk, a sub-genre that may be unknown for some of you and for others just a shadow of a memory, a concept you’ve heard but haven’t really explore and some of you may already be familiar with it.

For all of you Steampunctober is a chance to celebrate and get to know this genre and what it’s all about, expect book reviews, trailers and guest post from Steampunk authors.

But let’s start with the basics, what is Steampunk?

If Steampunk where to hold a family crest it would be the Science Fiction family crest, it would be known as lady Speculative Fiction’s baby, most people agree that the father of Steampunk would be lord Fantasy, sadly the details of who the father are still on debate.

Some say that Steampunk’s first steps where in the 19^th century at the hand of H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and Mary Shelley. But it wasn’t until the 1980’s that it started growing strong and defining itself as a subgenre.

For those of you curious on to what you can find Steampunk doing, well…

·                     You can find it replaying the 19th century, especially in the Victorian era, normally with a setting in England. But it’s a fan of alternative realities so you can expect a lot of variants.

·                     Steampunk tends to show great interest in steam powered technology, and likes to play the “how would piece of modern technology would work if it where powered by steam” game.

·                     If the setting isn’t in the 19^th century it does take a great resemblance to the values, costumes and wardrobes of the 19^th century. This means that even though Steampunk shows a fascination with the 19th century, it does 19th century on its way.

·                     It’s a fan of alternate history.

·                     And as we’ve said Steampunk likes to play with the Victorian era but it also takes it’s time to play with Horror, Alternative worlds and American west, Industrial or Modern themes and at times it likes to go Medieval.

I hope you enjoyed this and please remember I am a not what you would call an expert on this subject but I am human so if there is something you disagree with or would love to add please leave it in the comment section.