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Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." The term denotes works set in an era or world where STEAM POWER is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like
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Best M/M Fantasy Books of 2014 (high fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal and the other fantasy subgenres)
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“
You’ll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me!
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― Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology
― Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology

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Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minutes earlier and announced that a crazed Ethiope was at the door, presumably to buy a watch.
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― Infernal Devices
― Infernal Devices

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