Steampunk?
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It's a genre of sci-fi that came out in the 1980's. It has a couple of different character gimmicks, ranging from plucky inventor in the 1800's to what-if tech scenario for the victorian era. The mod community and the sci-fi community actually don't overlap as much as you'd think, the boing boing stuff is much more about aesthetics whereas the books and stories run on different principles.
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Never saw any. I did however see many similar turrets powered by gasoline engines.Khell_Sennet post=18.71241.718504 said:
You guys should read Escapement, by Jay Lake. It's mostly about clockwork, though. Less about steam.
Steampunk basically envisions what would have happened to tech if two things had happened:
1) Limited or non-networked electricity.
2) The absence of solid-state tech (transistors and the like).
Basically, if it's powered and run by non-electric, non-solid state means but does what you'd envision a solid state electrical device to do, it has a good chance of being steampunk.
Read "The Difference Engine", by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and "The Diamond Age", by Neal Stephenson, if you want some definitive steampunk fiction.
1) Limited or non-networked electricity.
2) The absence of solid-state tech (transistors and the like).
Basically, if it's powered and run by non-electric, non-solid state means but does what you'd envision a solid state electrical device to do, it has a good chance of being steampunk.
Read "The Difference Engine", by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and "The Diamond Age", by Neal Stephenson, if you want some definitive steampunk fiction.
