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A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. Steampunk-a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture-is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. Falksen, Evelyn Kriete, Desirina Boskovich, Rick Klaw, Jess Nevins, and Libby Bulloff This ultimate resource, filled with scores of illustrations and photographs, will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk past, present and future.By Jeff VanderMeer, S.J. Wells, to the key figures who coined the word that would spawn a literary genre, to the vast community of craftsmen and artists who translated that spark into a lifestyle with clothing and accessories such as goggles, corsets, pocket watches, and with an attitude to match. The Steampunk Bible is the first book of its kind, a fully illustrated compendium tracing the roots and history of this subculture, from the work of its godfathers Jules Verne and H.G. The Steampunk aesthetic now permeates movies, comics, fashion, art and more, and has given a distinct flavor to iconic events such as Maker Faire and the Burning Man festival. This subculture celebrates the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and steam-powered robots. Over the past fifteen years, Steampunk - a mash-up of Victorian and sci-fi aesthetics with a splash of punk rock attitude - has gone from being a literary movement to a part of pop culture and a way of life. With this philosophy tangibly present in every film, it’s no surprise that Studio Ghibli’s inaugural feature Laputa: Castle in the Sky is, per Jeff VanderMeer in The Steampunk Bible, one of.
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