Any Steam Punk fans on the CAA?

[holysoldier5000]

Any Steam Punk fans on the CAA?

I am a huge Steam Punk fan… From Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and The Time Machine to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Van Hellsing, and of course Neotopia! I am really into anything that has modern technological paradigms occurring in earlier historical settings. My opinion is that it is the coolest form of science fiction out there, and I want to know how many Steam Punk fans are on the CAA. So whether you are a big fan, or just like the genre, let me know what you like about it, and what Steam Punk Titles you like the most.

God Bless
~HS5000

[Debitt]

I haven't read many steam punk titles, however I use the idea in a couple of my own writings. ^_^

[holysoldier5000]

I haven't read many steam punk titles, however I use the idea in a couple of my own writings. ^_^

That's awsome! I am using the Steam Punk idea to wrtie my own book as well.

+ I can't belive I forgot to add "Trigun" to the list of fav Steam Punk titles!

[Kaligraphic]

You ever play the computer game Arcanum? Fantasy meets steampunk. It's actually pretty fun. Wizards and inventors and gunslingers and robots. Basically, the engine is like Fallout 2, but it's a semi-Victorian setting on a different world with cool stuff.

(If you're adding anime into the list, you may as well add Last Exile)

[Raiden no Kishi]

I am definitely into the steampunk concept. I enjoyed LXG, Van Helsing, and Trigun, and want to write a steampunk anime story someday.

.rai//

[holysoldier5000]

You ever play the computer game Arcanum? Fantasy meets steampunk. It's actually pretty fun. Wizards and inventors and gunslingers and robots. Basically, the engine is like Fallout 2, but it's a semi-Victorian setting on a different world with cool stuff.

(If you're adding anime into the list, you may as well add Last Exile)

I have never played Arcanum. I have heard mixed opinions on the game. Some like it while others don't. I want to give it a try though. It sounds really cool. Another game that has Steam Punk elements is WarCraft III... Dwarves wielding rifles, Steam Tanks, and Gyrocopters… I think we can safely say Steam Punk influence here.

And Anime can defiantly be added to the list!

[Alice]

I'm not sure of the definition of Steam Punk. If it is just the idea of steam powered technology of old, then I'm a huge fan.

How about Myst and Riven?

I'm not sure if Last Exile counts, but it has the whole "old days" feel to it, although the technology isn't steam.

Maybe you could give a definition of Steam Punk?

[holysoldier5000]

I'm not sure of the definition of Steam Punk. If it is just the idea of steam powered technology of old, then I'm a huge fan.

How about Myst and Riven?

I'm not sure if Last Exile counts, but it has the whole "old days" feel to it, although the technology isn't steam.

Maybe you could give a definition of Steam Punk?

...hmm... it is hard to nail it down. Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. Fiction in the steampunk genre is set in the past, or a world resembling the past, in which modern technological paradigms occurred earlier in history, but were accomplished via the science already present in that time period.

Wikipedia gives a pretty good definition and a list of Steam Punk titles.
You can check it out here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

& Myst and Riven would most certainly count as Steam Punk.

I am definitely into the steampunk concept. I enjoyed LXG, Van Helsing, and Trigun, and want to write a steampunk anime story someday.

Awsome! All good titles! Although I have not heard of "LXG???" Good luck with the story.

[Photosoph]

I'm not sure about the definition of Steampunk either... though I think the basic is as Holysoldier said: "...anything that has modern technological paradigms occurring in earlier historical settings." Is that right?

I actually like it -and it's good to now be able to put a name to that type of genre; I've never really known what it's called before. I remember watching the old 'The Journey to the Centre of the Earth' film... in fact we still have it on VHS at home. I also believe I've read the book, or may have... sometime after watching the movie. I loved the 'The Time Machine' film and have wanted to check out 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' for a while now. Other than that I've also played WCIII (go the humans! I love those griffin rider guys...) and watched quite a few Last Exile episodes. It's definitely a cool genre; especially since I like both SF and Fantasy.

[heero yuy 95]

I am a huge Steam Punk fan… From Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and The Time Machine

Same here, man! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was an awesome book! I also am a steampunk fan. I like stuff like Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow and movies and anime that depict the "future" from a late 19th century/ early 20th century point of view. i also would like to make my own steampunk manga story. Yeah, I'm a fan.

[holysoldier5000]

Here is a rather long list of Steam Punk Titles

Modern steampunk
The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul Di Filippo
The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling -- the designs of Charles Babbage led to the wide usage of mechanical computers in Victorian England. (See difference engine)
Morlock Night by K. W. Jeter
The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod
The Grand Ellipse by Paula Volsky
Pasquale's Angel by Paul McAuley
Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
The Scar by China Miéville
Age of Unreason Trilogy by Gregory Keyes
A Nomad of the Time Streams by Michael Moorcock
Infernal Devices by K. W. Jeter
The Sundowners Series by James Swallow
Homunculus by James Blaylock
L'équilibre des paradoxes by Michel Pagel
Lord Kelvin's Machine by James Blaylock
Anti-Ice by Stephen Baxter
Greatwinter trilogy, by Sean McMullen
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Quasi-Victorian science fiction
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! by Harry Harrison -- an alternate history novel written and set in the 1970s in a world where the American Revolution failed and the British Empire is still going strong. It has a nice mix of technologies advanced or behind ours, with high powered lasers used for drilling, while Babbage engines are used to do calculations for sub-orbital flights.
Queen Victoria's Bomb by Ronald Clark -- in the mid 19th century; a physicist gets the idea of isotopic separation after seeing pebbles graded by size on a pebble beach, and makes an atomic bomb. He intends to use it to end the Crimean War, but it never gets used, and no difference is made to history.
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson -- A steampunk-flavored adventure set in a nanotechnological future, with much of the action in a neo-Victorian society
The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling -- Meteors devastate Europe and America in the 19th century, causing much of the British upper class to flee to India. The story is set in 2025 in a thoroughly Indianized Angrezi Raj (British Empire), with its capital in Delhi.

Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth has inspired many steampunk film, TV and book adaptations.

Classic SF novels, inspirations for steampunk
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
The Steam House by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Ablest Man in the World by Edward Page Mitchell
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Comics / graphic novels
Daisy Kutter by Kazu Kibuishi
Le Régulateur T1 : Ambrosia by Corbeyran
Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898 by Alan Moore
Steam Detectives manga by Kia Asamiya
Steampunk by Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo
Texas Steampunk series by Lea Hernandez: Cathedral Child and Clockwork Angels
Les Cités Obscures by Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (DC Comics Elseworlds) by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola and Batman: Master of the Future (DC Comics Elseworlds) by Augusten and Eduardo Barreto
JLA: Age of Wonder (DC Comics Elseworlds) by Adisakdi Tantimedh and Galen Showman
Justice Riders (DC Comics Elseworlds) by Chuck Dixon and J. H. Williams III
Batman: The Doom that Came to Gotham (DC Comics Elseworlds) by Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey
The Amazing Screw-On Head by Mike Mignola
Neotopia by Rod Espinosa
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire, or The Legacy of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot

Steampunk role-playing game material
Castle Falkenstein (RPG) by Mike Pondsmith
GURPS Steampunk by William H. Stoddard
Iron Kingdoms by Privateer Press
Sorcery & Steam by Fantasy Flight Games
Space: 1889
Forgotten Futures
Deadlands
Brassy's Men by Interactivities Ink (Live action role-playing game)
Warhammer Fantasy (mostly renaissance and gunpowder age in nature)

Movies

1935 film Bride of Frankenstein 1999 released in 1999 with this DVD cover
Promotional still for the 2003 film, The League of Extraordinary GentlemenA Trip to the Moon (1902)
The Impossible Voyage (1904)
Conquest of the Pole (1912)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Time Machine (1960, 2002)
Master of the World (1961)
First Men in the Moon (1964)
The Asphyx (1972)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1982 claymation)
Castle in the Sky (1986 anime)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Wild Wild West (1998)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Steamboy (2004 anime)
Van Helsing (2004)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Howl's Moving Castle (2005 anime)


Television
The cast of The Secret Adventures of Jules VerneThe Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., FOX series
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (1975), The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977), Ghost Light (1989)
Fullmetal Alchemist, anime TV series
Gormenghast BBC series
Jack of All Trades, syndicated series
Kino's Journey, anime TV series
Last Exile, 2003 26-episode anime TV series
Legend, series
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, anime TV series
QED, series
Sakura Wars, anime TV series
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Sci Fi Channel series
Secret of Cerulean Sand, anime TV series
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, syndicated series
Steam Detectives, anime TV series
Trigun, anime TV series
The Wild Wild West, ABC series
The Vision of Escaflowne, anime TV series

Games
American McGee's Alice
Amerzone
Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Chaos Engine
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross

Dungeon Siege: Legends of ArannaDungeon Siege Mostly the goblin base and their automata
Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna adventure amids the ruins of a high-tech atlantean society
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy V (Neo-Classical)
Final Fantasy VI (Tuscan/Victorian/Western/Steampunk)
Final Fantasy VII (Steampunkisch/Cyberpunk/Modern)
Final Fantasy X (Magitech/Clockwork/Etherbased)
Gunvalkyrie
Jak and Daxter series
Magic: the Gathering, prominent in the Weatherlight storyline and dominant in the Mirrodin storyline
Morrowind, specifically Dwemer culture

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Riven
Myst III: Exile
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
Myst IV: Revelation
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Sakura Wars
Septerra Core
Shining Force Series
Slouching Towards Bedlam
Steamband
Syberia
Tail Concerto
Thief
Wild ARMs series (Western)
World of Warcraft

[heero yuy 95]

Hey, would Skies of Arcadia count as steampunk? i really love its epic storyline. Definitely one of my favorites. for those of you who haven't heard of it, it's an rpg set in a fantay world where the sky is the ocean and the continents and islands float in mid-air. it has quite a range of airships from old sailing ships to pre-World War 2 battleships. The technology is very innovative. I really dig flying battleships.

[holysoldier5000]

Hey, would Skies of Arcadia count as steampunk?

That one would most certainly count

[faithfighter]

stum punk rocks!!
personally I like:
full metal alchemist!! (my fav)
Trigun
Van Helsing
Neotopai
league of extrodenary GentleMen

those rock!!

I really like the steam punk anime style of drawling...its just kewl

[holysoldier5000]

OOO!!! I wonder what a Steam Punk Sherlock Holmes would look like???

"Elementary dear Watson! A rogue Cyborg committed the crime!"

Another Steam Punk Favorite:
Treasure Planet!

[holysoldier5000]

So what do you all like most about the steam punk genre?

I love the infinite possibilities...

[Godly Paladin]

Meesa likin' Trigun. Itsa bombad show!

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I love steampunk, its one of my favourite genres because its fairly original and exciting. Jules Vernes stuff is great, Last Exile, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movie not the comics) and the Thief stealth game trilogy is awesome! I love how steampunk is fantasy with science elements and old world technology is combined with futuristic technology!
I'm also writing a novel and it has lots of steampunk elements.

[holysoldier5000]

I love steampunk, its one of my favourite genres because its fairly original and exciting. Jules Vernes stuff is great, Last Exile, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movie not the comics) and the Thief stealth game trilogy is awesome! I love how steampunk is fantasy with science elements and old world technology is combined with futuristic technology!
I'm also writing a novel and it has lots of steampunk elements.

I knew you would post on the this thread sooner or later...
I think it is weirdly awsome how "fantasy with science elements and old world technology is combined with futuristic technology" to make a stroy. No limits to the imagination here. Jet Packs & Dragons all in the same world!

I too am writing a book with Steam Punk Elements! Any more Steam Punk Writiers here?

[Fireproof]

Bigtime! I love steampunk settings in general. Those big, clunky machines, the hissing pipes... *Shivers* It's just awesome. FFVI was steampunk too! ^^

[bigsleepj]

I like Steampunk as well, although I wouldn't count Jules Verne and Welles as steampunk because, well, it was still speculative in their time while it is a reality in ours. Would anyone call "Jurassic Park" 'Genetics Punk' 100 years from now?

But I love Verne - or what I've read of him (which includes 20,000 Leagues, From the Earth to the Moon, and "From the Earth to the Moon" .

I have plans for a steam-punk book myself but I have too much on my plate to begin it immediately. But I would pursue it in the future.

I never liked the movie-version of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" which suffered of action-scenes with very little visual logic and a slightly muddled plot. It's script was too rushed.

I can't recommend the comic book either which I recently read. I like the tone of the story which, despite violence, (not too violent) is fun with a lot of literary references and such. I also like the interesting perspective it gave on Professor Moriarty and Mycroft Holmes. Problem is Alan Moore wrote it, a man famous for his grudges against people & organisations, among others which include Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Freemasons, 19th Century Britons, governments (good or bad) and Christians. There is a particularly ugly scene in League which serves no purpose as criticism of Christian doctrine or criticism of Christian attitudes or world view - its just plain insulting and blasphemous. It serves no purpose of than to provoke Christians. You've been warned.

[Technomancer]

It can be an interesting genre if it's done right. Those interested in a fantasy angle to the whole steampunk idea might also be interested in K.J. Bishop's 'The Etched City' and China Meiville's 'Perdido Street Station'.