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Twice today I have read the term steampunk in relation to HG Wells - The First Men in the Moon as steampunk classic (to be dramatised by BBC Four and Mark Gatiss) and as a forerunner of steampunk (which feels less wrongheaded).
I'd always thought of steampunk as being dependent on a vision of a nineteenth century that might have been - or a subsequent period which has evolved form that different nineteenth century. I'm not sure that steampunk as alternate present quite cuts the definition for me - it's missing a dimension of, what, nostalgia, disappointment, etsrangement?
Am I wrong?
I'd always thought of steampunk as being dependent on a vision of a nineteenth century that might have been - or a subsequent period which has evolved form that different nineteenth century. I'm not sure that steampunk as alternate present quite cuts the definition for me - it's missing a dimension of, what, nostalgia, disappointment, etsrangement?
Am I wrong?
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