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  • noun Plural form of steampunk.

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Examples

  • I often wonder about this: almost all of the steampunks I know are also thorough transhumanists -- and many of them discovered steampunk via Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Bruce Sterling and William Gibson's The Difference Engine, two texts by writers whose visions of the future have greatly defined transhumanist aesthetics and ideals.

    [GUEST POST] Lavie Tidhar Asks 'What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Steampunk?' 2010

  • The Sci Fi Experience 2009 - now I've done a classic, literary science fiction, short science fiction, short steampunk, and three longer (and lighter) YA steampunks.

    15. Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel 2009

  • “His audience was an assemblage of nearly two hundred neo-Luddites and anarchists and socialists and freegans and steampunks and home-schoolers and folksingers and knitters and yak farmers.”

    Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009

  • Example: The VIP membership to AnachroCon 2010 is kickass, one of the highest-value prizes, but it doesn't have any tickets on it yet because Southern steampunks/neoVictorians are not yet aware that they can win it.

    Tew's Day! aamcnamara 2009

  • My name is Erin and I am writing an article for the Toronto Star about steampunks.

    Interview with Peter Watts x00c5;ka 2008

  • It is always steampunk themed but may not always be as overrun with steampunks than it was last night.

    “We are so blogging this!” | Mind on Fire 2008

  • The internal-combustion engine killed it, but watery-eyed nostalgia has given rise to modern-day steampunks' fanciful creations.

    The Best: Obsolete Technologies, From the Sundial to the Laser Disc 2007

  • This one was a party for steampunks where they could come together to show off their creations and costumes.

    Feast of Fun Marc Felion 2010

  • This one was a party for steampunks where they could come together to show off their creations and costumes.

    BBC News | Technology | World Edition 2010

  • NEED FOR TWEED-How has Portland survived this long with so many steampunks, so many cyclists, and no tweed-themed bicycle ride?

    Portland Mercury 2010

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