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Originally Posted by dreams
I believe, I have just had my first experience with steampunk. 
I have started, MR author (HistoryWes), Wesley Allison's " Brechalon" and " The Voyage of the Minotaur".
It does contain magic, so I am not sure if it truly is considered steampunk. I am surprised about how fun it is to read the combination in a story. |
I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be steampunk. The defining characteristic of steampunk is the basic level of technology. It's Victorian era industrial revolution, with steam engines as the principal motive power. It may also add in mechanical computing based on Babbage's Analytical Engine, but electronics doesn't exist.
I see no reason you couldn't blend in magic. SF author Jay Lake has done a couple of steampunk novels in a setting where the world is in an actual clockwork universe, as though the solar system was a gigantic Orrery. It's hard to call that other than magic.
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Dennis