Steampunk

Thanks to spooky librarian "Bunny" and his blog here, I've discovered the wonderful term steampunk, " a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. Fiction in the steampunk genre is set in the past, or a world resembling the past, in which modern technological paradigms occurred earlier in history, but were accomplished via the science already present in that time period." (Thank you, Wikipedia.)

Bunny's Steampunk blog led me in turn to some early 20th century conceptions of futuristic flying machines, this page of links to more wonderful aerial contraptions, and the Yesterday's Tomorrows traveling exhibit, which "explores the history of the future--our expectations and beliefs about things to come ... [F]rom ray guns to robots, to nuclear powered cars, to the Atom-Bomb house, to predictions and inventions that went awry. "

This is all delicious meat for us here at Future Perfect. Thanks, Bunny.

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