OTTENS Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described as what the past would look life if the future had happened sooner.

What is known today as steampunk has its beginnings in the early days of Victorian penny dreadfuls and the encyclopedic novels of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires. An increasingly literate public took advantage of the opportunities for adventure and high romance offered them by Verne, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Rice Burrougs, as well as the macabre tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. Steampunk is in part a nostalgic reclamation of Victorian and Edwardian Scientific Romances, imperialist adventures, Edisonades and Voyages Extraordinaires, reminiscing about a more elegant age of adventure that never really existed.