Steampunk is intriguing

A couple of weeks ago I was looking at an article about a steampunk laptop on Engadget and I was impressed by the craftsmanship. So, I decided to look a little more into steampunk and see what it’s about.

From Wikipedia:

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

I think the only books I’ve read that I’d categorize as steampunk would be the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. As good as I thought those were, it’s the steampunk recreations of modern objects that I think are the coolest.

If you want to look at more examples of things like the keyboard pictured above, go to Steampunk Workshop. You’ll be glad you did.