âItâs sort of Victorian-industrial, but with more whimsy and fewer orphans.â Caitlin Kittredge Steampunk is a genre which surfaced during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as an amalgam of various science-fiction and fantasy elements resembling the British Victorian era or the U.S. "Wild-West" era, in which steam power was widely used. One of its main characteristics is anachronism - designating an
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