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steam·punk

(stēm′pŭngk′)
n.
1. Science fiction set in an alternate version of the historic past, especially 19th-century England, and involving advanced technologies usually based on steam power.
2. An aesthetic style inspired by steampunk fiction.

[Coined by Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950), American science fiction writer, on the model of cyberpunk.]
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Steampunk is a genre of science fiction in which enthusiasts dress up in modified Victorian clothing and fantasise about things like lighter-than-air airships that are powered by steam engines, or wondrous submarines such as those imagined and written about by Jules Verne.
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