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'With reference to James P. Blaylock’s Homunculus, China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station and Ekaterina Sedia’s The Alchemy of Stone, this exegesis explores the writing of Heart Fire as a steampunk text from the perspective of a writer in the genre of fantasy. It argues that steampunk is not limited to texts representing steamdriven machinery, but also includes fantastical texts that rely on pseudo-Victorianism often set in imaginary worlds characterized by anachronism, pseudoscience, technofantasy, magic, hybridity and imagined events inspired by science fictional history as well as real history.'
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Steampunk Note: Critical text arguing for a wider understanding of steampunk that is more accommodating to pseudo-Victorian fantasy settings and other less technologically focused fiction.
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Steampunk : Imagined Histories and Technologies of Science and Fantasy
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