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Industrial steampunk
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Industrial steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction genres that 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 — 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.
The genre has since become popular among various artists, filmmakers and musicians. Typical industrial steampunk creatures include steam-powered automatons; intelligent animals, such as shrinkwrapped hounds; airships; robots; etc.
Buildings, machinery, and devices in industrial steampunk are constructed to resemble structures from the period, although they may have many more moving parts than their real counterparts. This may include clockwork mechanisms, sometimes with tiny people-shaped cogs; cogs that can be wound to alter something like the weather or time of day; or gears that can move in multiple directions. Examples of this extreme include the clockwork men in the 1964 film “The Invisible Man” and in…
