Steam Opera

*Nice coinage there, "steam opera."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/22/manual-of-detection-jedediah-berry

*Now that I think of it, DIFFERENCE ENGINE does have a couple of detectives in it. Other than that, I don't write about detectives or mysteries. Cops, yes. Got lots of cops in my work.

*Maybe it's a question of political attitude, like the difference between "something weird happened and it is hidden away in the noir underground" to "something blatantly weird has happened in public