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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Steampunk, Slash fiction, Science fiction fandom, Filk music, Author surrogate, Fansub, List of fan fiction terms, Legal issues with fan fiction, Concerned, D jinshi, Alternative universe, Real person fiction, Pendant Productions, Mary Sue, Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival, FanFiction.Net, The Gossamer Project, Norwescon, Fan film, MSTing, Jane Austen Fan-fiction, Femslash, Continuator, Time's Champion, Steamcon, SpoCon, Niigata Comic Market, RadCon, Another Hope, Expanded Universe, Uberfic, The Enchanted Duplicator, Songfic. Excerpt: Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used-usually the Victorian era Britain-that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them; based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk. "Maison tournante aerienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtieme Siecle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th centuryAlthough many works now considered seminal...
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