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STEAMPUNK

A Complete Guide to Victorian Techno-Fetishism

compiled by Vienna Von Schwarz

 

Scheduled to release August 2012

 

"Steampunk" explores this fascinating counterculture, transporting the reader

on an eclectic odyssey into a weird and wonderful world of dirigibles,

vaudeville and steam-powered ray guns. It celebrates the lives of steampunk’s

heroes and villains who are as diverse as they are pioneering. Isambard

Kingdom Brunel, Ada Lovelace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Aleister Crowley

sit alongside body snatchers Burke and Hare and fashionistas Lady Gaga and

Alexander Mcqueen, creating a spellbinding mix of science fiction, Victorian

fact and contemporary kookiness.

 

contents -

Introduction: The story of steam, Why steampunk?

The Steampunk Code:

Chivalry vs. ‘Chavlry’.

Protosteampunks to include Leonardo Da Vinci, Al Jazari and Heron of Alexandria.

Inventors, Engineers and Industrialists: to include Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell and Ada Lovelace.

Explorers and Aviators: to include Count von Zeppelin, Jean-

Pierre Blanchard and Anna Mitchell-Hedges.

Authors: including H.G. Wells,

Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Artists: to include Richard Dadd,

William Morris, Doctor Evermore and Jake Von Slatt.

Fashionistas: including

Jean-Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen.

Steampunk Food: to include

Herr Steinbeck and Heston Blumenthal.

Steampunk Villains: including Aleister Crowley and Giovanni Aldini.

The Sound of Steampunk: to include Abney Park and Unextraordinary Gentlemen.

Steampunk at the Movies: including Studio Ghibli and Terry Gilliam.

(Subject to change.)

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