I recently discovered that I like the steampunk genre. For those of you who do not know what steampunk is if you will click on the handy dandy link in the first sentence you will be taken to a Wikipedia article with which you can enlighten yourself on this delightful sub-genre of fiction, fantasy, and culture.
Pah! You say you are too lazy to click that little linky? Fine then, I shall summarize for you: Steampunk is a sub-genre of fiction, fantasy, and alternate history. The setting is typically Victorian era England and steam power is still widely used. Airships are a mode of transportation, and steam powers everything from your winged backpack to your computer.
You can find examples of steampunk machinery in works by H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. Movies such as "Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow", "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "Wild Wild West" (1999) and television shows such as "Warehouse 13" and "Wild Wild West" (1965) also epitomize the genre.
What I like about the steampunk world is that it combines the romanticism of Victorian England with speculative technology. Frills and furbelows with clocks, cogs, and gears. It engages my imagination with the "what if's" and thrills me with the seeming dichotomy of the surreal to the possible.
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