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Originally Posted by hobnail
It took me a while to figure out what the steampunk genre is. The few that I've read seem to be rather boneheaded with respect to logic and technical stuff.
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I think that's why such a descriptor turns me off. Harry Harrison's 'A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!', Stephen Baxter's 'Anti Ice' and K.W. Jeter's 'Infernal Devices' were all fun thought experiments on science fiction tropes in Victorian times.
But lots of what is labelled as steampunk now is just a shallow esthetic choice. Not that it all is. But still...