Have I got the genre for you!
H.G Wells, Jules Verne and Mary Shelley are who I consider to be the most significant original writers of Steampunk fiction. I threw Cthulhu in the title because technically Steampunk Horror is a thing and H.P. Lovecraft was pretty damn good at that...
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What is Steampunk though? The answer is basically: a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.
How I would describe it: Picture the Victorian era as if steam-powered technology advanced further than it was supposed to, that dirigibles and airships were the main mode of travel and automatons were utilised as household staff for the wealthy. Scientists with questionable morals (see Frankenstein) and the Industrial Revolution has begun and yet electricity is not on the scene as of yet.
Steampunk can be dystopian, Utopian, fantasy, horror, science fiction, or any other genre spin-off you can think of! It is an incredibly versatile genre that can include anything from Cowboys on dinosaurs to Tesla coil induced time travel (second one is made up of things that I would totally read, Tesla and time travel? yes please!).
The best Steampunk series I have read to date is The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. She introduces the concept of a measurable soul while adding werewolves, vampires, and of course automatons to the series beginning with Soulless.
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| We follow Alexia Tarabotti on her adventures with her trusty (and well equipped) Parasol |
Goodnight! xox
Taz
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