steampunk

"...members of the Royal Family, today eulogized Peter Butterworth, the personal confessor to the late King Edward X. Born into poverty in rural Cheshire, Butterworth rose steadily through the ranks of the church, becoming an ordained minister by the age of 20. He became acquainted with his...

Prologue: One Missed Step June 11th,1811. Tuileries Palace, Paris, French Empire Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, whistled as he left the nursery of his newborn son, a son who would inherit a glorious empire. Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte had a glorious life ahead of him...

So what is this?: Well like the title suggests this is initial planning faze for a timeline I've had in the back of my head for nearly a year now. What's it about?: The main theme is about alternate technological development and how the earlier development of certain technologies would effect...

How do you think the various eras of aesthetics, technology and social mores, whose categorizations have been given the names of Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Cassette Futurism, and Cyberpunk in modern Western pop culture and literature, can be applied to the 20th century Soviet Union and the...

Chapter 1: The King’s Great Matter King Henry VIII was the second monarch from the Tudor dynasty. No brothers had survived childhood. As 1526 ended he was faced with the fact that he might be the last of the Tudors. He had been married for 17 years to Catherine of Aragon with only one surviving...

Believe it or not, the upcoming video game "The Outer Worlds" is an alternate timeline. According to its creators, "This is an alternate history,” says co-director Leonard Boyarsky. “There was a point where the timeline split off. It was at a certain point, around the time of Einstein. There was...

So, I received my copy of Rome West today, and was wondering if anybody would like to help me flesh it out a little bit. A bit of background: Rome West is an alternate history comic book originally released online and published in physical form by Dark Horse Comics. The PoD is a Roman fleet...

London,England, May 12 , 1536 It was a cold night, George Boleyn shivered but not just from the cold . He was leaving like a thief in the night, the chance of return was slim . He thought of Anne,of Father and Mother and Jane . He know somehow that he would never see them again, never see...

Here is an interview that I conducted for the news site that I run. David J. Butler describes himself as "A novelist living in the Rocky Mountain west. My training is in law, and I worked as a securities lawyer at a major international firm and inhouse at two multinational semiconductor...

Originally I was going to ask this in the before 1900 section of AH.com but I was thinking maybe I should post this here. My question and this is also a WI as well, what if technology for intents and purposes by the 21st century remains as it did in the late 1800s and early 1900s? This is...

I really love the Victorian Era and the elements and the aesthetic of steampunk, so I thought it might be cool to think up a much more... interesting Victorian Era. Any ideas on how to achieve that?

What is the earliest a practical steam Engine can be built? Practical means that it's not a mere toy, but can be used by public and private organizations as a mean to improve administrative or military efficiency or to produce profit. Hero's aeolipile is a steam engine, but doesn't fulfill the...

Cybperpunk's most basic definition is a genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology. Other subgenres have branched out from cyberpunk, the most notable of which being "steampunk", which is defined as a genre of science...

AHF Magazine is now going live. Print ISBN is 978-1539353034 - I have approved it and it will be live by tomorrow, if not already. Kindle versions are :- https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LXR9GQ5 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXR9GQ5 The live Epub versions are :-...

Anything that misunderstands the "poetic side" of steampunk and what it stands for, turning it into an utter kitsch with little relevance. Examples can range from artwork (including paintings, sculpture, custom designs), to literature, movies, games, theatre, etc. So, what are IYHO, the worst...