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imagine if you will a steam-powered computer composed entirely of metal cogs and physical switches...

Steampunk is a term that was coined in the late 1980s to describe a type of science fiction or fantasy writing that fused a Victorian setting and technology with later technological and mechanical developments to create a 19th century that never was.  The genre has now expanded beyond writing to include people who are creating and building modern components to reflect 19th century styles and hardware.

Steampunk Blogs 

Steampunk!
Via Making Light: Sydney Padua: 2D Goggles » Lovelace: The Origin: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace:
Future Cities, The Steampunk Past, And Everything In Between ...
This month, spend some time in Victorian steampunk England, hunt down lost artifacts on Mars, or get to know Batman a little better. You could also grab a drink in post-apocalyptic Wales. All that and more, in July books.
bookofjoe: Steampunk Mechanical Cheetah
She's constructed out of the usual electrical conduit, transmission parts, and 20-gauge steel. The cheetahs are part of the underworld ecosystem in the "Timmy" universe. They are couriers of small objects (a sort of steampunk FedEx) and ...
Steampunk Mechanical Cheetah | Gugazine
Steampunk Mechanical Cheetah. 11 Jul 2009. Steampunk Mechanical Cheetah by Andrew Chase is made of electrical conduit, transmission parts, and 20-gauge steel. The cheetah has mechanical joints to allow some movement. ...

Machinations and Invention 

Comic Con 2007: Steampunk Ghostbuster by earthdog

Steampunk Ghostbuster

Steampunk by pashasha

The ideas behind the steampunk sci-fi subgenre have been around since Jules Vern...

Steampunk Belt Buckle by Kabuki by mark_2010

Custom made Steam Punk belt buckle by Steampunk Forum artist Kabuki. The clock...

Steampunk Treehouse in the Sky by zachwass2000

Steampunk Treehouse in the Sky

Steampunk Botanist by Drhaggis

Steampunk Botanist, Dragoncon

steampunk dream missile machine by _Madolan_

steampunk dream missile machine

DSC09296 by batwrangler

steampunk laptop

What. by M. Veen

What.

Steampunk by pashasha

The ideas behind the steampunk sci-fi subgenre have been around since Jules Verne

Steampunk Parlour Room Tesla CD Turbine by MrfixitRick

Steampunk Parlour Room version of the Tesla CD Turbine.

IMGP6225 by doctorcurly

Steampunk gentleman

Dagon Rite of First Immersion by porkshanks

Dagon Rite of First Immersion

The Alchemist by Don Solo

Named for it's ability to transmutate practically anything into a puff of black ...

Work in progress, "Defending the Electronic Frontier" by slurkflickr

Defending the Electronic Frontier

The Library 

steampunk fiction and writings

STEAMPUNK -
The New Speculative Fiction Clearing House
Voyages Extraordinaires: Scientific Romances in a Bygone Age
Welcome to the new Voyages Extraordinaires: Scientific Romances in a Bygone Age site!
steampunk magazine
putting the punk back into steampunk
Steampunk Central - The Home of Western Steampunk
Steampunk Central examines the steampunk elements from popular science fiction and fantasy TV shows and Films
Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk
Retro-futurism is all the rage these days: antique computers, 8-bit game art, classic cases for modern gear, anything to make the onslaught of new technology less disposable. The yearning for timelessness in a constantly renewing tech culture has led to a spike in interest in the steam-powered, brass-encrusted world of steampunk.
Steampunk
Steam-power, brass clockworks, ironwork walking machines, and Victorian fashions all come together to create the wonderful genre known as Steampunk.
Steampunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. 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, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.
The Steampunk Librarian
all hail Verne and Tesla - Steampunk Librarian's Blog on Vox
Cathedral Child
Lea Hernandez' trailblazing steampunk OEL!
What if it were 1897, and you lived in a Texas that might have been--a frontier of steam technology and magic?
For Glory and Sumner, tutors to the living computer, Cathedral, it's real.
It's also about to end
Meet Mr. Steampunk: Jake von Slatt
For Jake von Slatt, steampunk mechanical hacker, both the do-it-yourself and steampunk movements are driven by the same obsession: the idea that a single mad engineer working in his lab can help change the world by having mastery over his machines.

The Works 

building a steampunk world

The Steampunk Workshop
Wherein the craftsman demonstrates the construction of artifacts from an age of steam
and brass.
Brass Goggles
The lighter side of Steampunk
Steampunk - Gizmodo
Gizmodo, the gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural.
How to draw Steampunk Machines
This page is to inform artists who want to draw steampunk machines but don't quite understand how steam works. The focus is to add enough elements to your drawings, to make your steampunk machines more believable.
Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars
Showing posts with label steampunk star wars.
Datamancer.net - Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions
Steampunk & retrofuturist fabrication, technical & computer art, props, contraptions, gadgets, and all manner of assorted nonsense
FRANK BUCHWALD MACHINE LIGHTS | Design of lamps and light objects
Beautiful steampunk lamp by Frank Buchwald

See into the Steampunk Universe 


STEAMPUNK RAYGUNS!

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Utopia

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Steampunk Internet

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Steampunk city

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The Nautilus SteamPunk Guitar

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Steampunk chicken-walker mech costume

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Getting into Steampunk Costumes

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Steampunk - The Golden Compass - La Bussola d'Oro

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Greetings and Salutations 

"A fool may chance to put something in a wise man's head." - Victorian proverb

RiverOtterWidget wrote...

Great lens you have been rated a 5* good work!

ReplyPosted February 28, 2009

Lensmaster

Janeil Harricharan wrote

Cool! I have recently gotten into steampunk, but can't find anybody to cosplay as steampunkers or do much. I am attempting to do a steampunk mod to a computer among other things, butit'd be cool if I wasn't the only person in the Greeneville, Parrottsville, and Newport Tennesseee that were into this. T_T Thanks for the inspiration, though!

Reply Posted November 25, 2008

Lensmaster

London Particulars wrote

Great Lens!
I love Steampunk too - there is just so much going on and as you say, its expanding all the time.
It will be interesting to see where its going to go now its being dragged into the Mainstream!
Thanks for the links, there are some sites I wasn't aware of and look forward to checking them out!
Here is a link to mine in case your interested!
http://www.steampunkjewelry.ffxoh.com/

Reply Posted September 25, 2008

rms wrote...

Great topic. Very interesting to read about. Never realized there was a name for it.

ReplyPosted May 29, 2008