Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists?welcome to the wild
world of steampunk. It is all speculative?or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who
pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our current age.
The gear turns, the whistle blows, the sails expand with an electro-mechanical
whirring. A retro-futurist Zeppelin, shimmering with halos of steam, rises into
view. Manning the helm and wearing a pair of tinted goggles is the
pseudo-Victorian hero, leather top hat jauntily tipping to the side as he raises
a headed cane (likely, a sword or pistol in disguise). Welcome to the world of
steampunk, the science-fiction of Victoriana,