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Old 06-22-2008, 08:36 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by RWood View Post
I thought the flying boats that used a powdered coal for fuel and other equivalent technologies put it squarely in the steampunk arena even if it did have an alternative history bent to the story setup.
Yeah, you can view it that way.

I guess my problem is that the whole concept of "steampunk" hadn't been invented when Harrison wrote that book. Nor had cyberpunk, for that matter.

So calling it steampunk is classification after the fact. There were various things called cyberpunk by the early proponents of the sub-genre that bemused the folks who wrote the works. Cyberpunk wasn't what they thought they were writing when they wrote it.

You can always play games with classification, and classify stuff after the fact. Personally, I shy away from that, and reserve the "steampunk" tag for books written by current authors who are actively trying to write that sort of book.
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