What is Steampunk? – Guest Post by, Jaq D Hawkins…

Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

A lot of readers have found it confusing to negotiate their way through book lists under the heading of Steampunk. They find Mysteries, Young Adult, Romance and an inordinate number of stories with vampires, zombies and werewolves for a genre that isn’t Horror. They come across Adventure stories, many of them in the YA camp, airships and mechanoids. So what is it that actually defines a story as Steampunk?

Well, the simple answer is alternative forms of ene...