Steam Punk Gothic
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Therefore, steampunk may be described as neo-Victorian. Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.[citation needed] Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or of the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt, and China Miéville.[original research?] Other examples of steampunk contain alternative-history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.[citation needed] Steampunk may also incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre.[citation needed] The first known appearance of the term steampunk was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created as far back as the 1950s or 1960s.[citation needed] Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th century.
Size: 3679px × 4994px
Location: London England
Photo credit: © Rik Hamilton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., 19th, 19th-century, additional, aesthetic, airships, alternate, alternative-history-style, anachronistic, analogue, analytical, architectural, art, authors, babbages, century, charles, china, computers, culture, cyberpunk, designs, digital, elements, employs, envisioned, eras, examples, fantasy, fashion, features, fiction, fictional, genre, genres, gothic, historical, history, horror, hunt, include, incorporate, incorporates, industrial, inspired, inventions, life, lighter--air, machinery, machines, mainstream, maintained, mechanical, miéville, modern, neo-victorian, people, perspective, philip, presentations, pullman, punk, recognisably, retro-futuristic, rooted, science, scott, similarly, steam, steam-powered, steampunk, stephen, style, subgenre, technologies, technology, usage, vampire, wells, westerfeld, works, world
