Steampunk

Q. What is “steampunk?”
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A. Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were. Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk