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Imagine a world where computers were developed a century
before their time, running on levers and steam engines instead of microprocessors
or even light bulbs; a world where the zeppelin never went out of fashion
as new technology made it safer and faster, where brave men (and women) explored
a yet undiscovered world to find wondrous ruins of lost civilisations or entrances
to entire new worlds, where the wondrous age of magic is slowly fading away
to give place to an age of reason. This is the world of steampunk, a subgenre
of fantasy and science fiction that is devoted to marrying the possible with
the improbable more than exploring the future or exploring fantastic themes;
steampunk explores a past that might have been, had some things happened a
little differently.
