steam punk
Brass-goggled retrofuturism
Steampunk is a genre of science fiction set in an alternate past—usually Victorian England—where steam power remained dominant and spawned fantastical technologies.
The aesthetic blends 19th-century industrial machinery with futuristic inventions: airships, clockwork robots, brass goggles.
The style extends beyond fiction to fashion, art, and design: She wore a steampunk corset with copper gears.
Usually spelled as one word.
- corsetBoned waist-shaping undergarment
- gearsToothed rotating machine parts
- inventorCreator of original devices
- retrofuturismNostalgia for bygone futures
- airshipsSteerable lighter-than-atmosphere craft
Jules Verne · anachronism · wild west · tinkerer · brass · copper pipes · clockwork · dirigible · flying machine · cogs · alternate history · Victorian era · upcycling · top hat · automatons · H.G. Wells · time machine · goggles
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
steam punkcyberpunk
Dystopian tech-noir fiction
cybernetic · biopunk · nanopunk · solarpunk · dieselpunk
steam punkdigital
Of discrete data
cybernetic · virtual reality · computerized · wireless · virtual