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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Myself, personally, I'd consider that since Verne & Wells actually lived back in the time that they were more-or-less straight sci-fi writers of the day envisioning what might be using extrapolations of their current level of tech and scientific understanding just as today's writers are have been nanotech and singularity and gengineering/AI cyborging it with our current levels.
Whereas steampunk to me has a dedicated retro-consciousness element of examining what-might-have-been back in the day with our current understanding of the tech and knowledge they had back then, to introduce an achronous level of induced artifice (in the sense of the proliferation of clever advanced devices) resulting in a historical AU, if that makes any sense.
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Thanks! That's a great explanation and I can see that point of view. Appreciate it.