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Originally Posted by alansplace
So you hated 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the Moon, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The First Men in the Moon, just to cite a few antecedents of the genre. That's really too bad. Each to his own, I suppose. 
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When you put it like that, it makes me suddenly have to reevaluate my stance.
I've read all but one of the above examples and very much enjoyed them. I guess in my own mind, "steampunk" evokes a very specific type of image: Victorian era settings with wildly anachronistic tech, improbably powered by gears and steam.
When contrasted with 20,000 Leagues and Center of the Earth, all of a sudden, my visual changes dramatically from abhorrence to fondness.
Although you've cited these examples as antecedents, in today's terms, would these be classified as steampunk?
You have any recommendations personally of something worth reading in the modern steampunk genre? Mayhaps I should give it a chance to really change my mind.