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Making Steampunk Cool(er) Part Two – What’s in a Name?

Posted by James Schafer, The Coxcomb on June 28, 2012 · 3 Comments

Jeter's 1979 novel (here with a contemporary cover) was a science-fiction/fantasy tale set in 19th century England threatened by the eponymous creatures from The Time Machine. It was in describing it, along with the work of his colleagues Blaylock and Peters, that Jeter invented the term "Steampunk[s]."

Names are powerful things. They provide foundations for castles and the bedrocks of empires. But that strength is seductive, and inevitably comes at a cost. At some point, instead of being empowering they become constricting – instead of describing reality they create it . . . and instead of liberation they offer enslavement. I was [...]

Category Steampunk, Texts · Tags anubis gates, cyberpunk, jeter, morlock night, nuclear power, peters, steam turbines, steampunk

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Here you'll find the jests and gambols of James Schafer - physician, scientist, fop, and fool. Read of sartorial whimsies and of the corroding engines of Steampunk, of the invisible light of medicine and of the lyric wrath of song, of the nameless pains of soured love and of the intoxicating touch of siren skin. But never trust the fool, for he can bend the ears of kings with poison japes that would doom another to the gallows. The curse of a fertile imagination is that it births monsters.

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