Steampunk genre of Science Fiction

I love science fiction. I grew up reading every book I could get my hands on and watching hundreds of movies and TV show. So you would think that I know a lot about the topic…and I do. But today I learned something new.

Apparently there is a subgenre of science fiction that I didn’t know existed. Oh, I had seen the movies and read the stories. I just didn’t know that there was a new title for their category of story. Steampunk.

Steampunk is 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 developments occurred earlier in history, but were accomplished via the technology already present in that time period. The genre typically falls into the realm of science fiction.

Here is an in-depth article all about this fascinating topic. I am ever amazed by what you can learn when you are open to new ideas.