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  1. n. uncountable, neologism A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society.
  2. n. countable, cosplay A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
  3. v. transitive To depict in a steampunk manner.

Etymologies

  1. steam +‎ -punk, by analogy to cyberpunk (Wiktionary)

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  • erinmckean "steampunk is nothing more than what happens when goths discover brown" (Charles Stross) Nov 6, 2010

  • loulou Steampunk seems to have started as a SciFi genre - sort of scifi set in the past, rather than the future. Hence the 'steam' part - this is cyberpunk in the age of steam-driven things. At the same time, it named the writer/creator of such SciFi "he's quit writing cybertrash, and become a true steampunk with his latest backwards time-travel epic". Of course, it's broadened its meaning & fields, as words will, and is now used to describe anything that's willfully 'behind its time' technologically, as in "I love your Cona coffee machine, it's so steampunk" Jun 9, 2009

  • ecbrenner "Item of SF terminology coined in the late 1980s, on the analogy of cyberpunk, to describe the modern subgenre whose SF events take place against a 19th-century background." --Encylcopedia of Science Fiction, 1161. Mar 30, 2009

  • edwardvielmetti Half the excitement about the online steampunk revival seems to source from the fact that it's only been done once before. That's what it comes to, in the anachronesis condition: it's exciting because it's only a bit old.

    Warren Ellis,

    http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/22516/ Oct 21, 2007

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