Why steampunk fiction: Enter the zesty and uncanny world of steampunk fiction that is a rich assimilation of alternate history, fantasy, sci-fi elements, and speculative fiction. It forms a cult of its own with a backdrop of steam power and Victorian England. It is defined by a Victorian sartorial style, architecture, and culture. It was a time when people dreamed of submarines when none existed and let alone deep-sea exploration! Therefore a touch of illustration and creative-fantasy content stirs the mind. This genre of fiction relates to futuristic tales. The writings of Mary Shelley , HG Wells, Jules Verne, and Mark Twain were the precursor to steampunk fiction although this style of writing is fairly recent. Take the instance of an author like Jules Verne; Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days reveal a world of color, adventures, exploration, and science. While the former goes back and forth in narration from the age of the pre-historic dinosaur and the ice-age, the latter reveals an era when geographical exploration and colonization were at their peak. The beauty of such fiction is that it presents a plethora of topics ranging from anthropology to geography to physics to history and they are inter-related: e.g. in Journey to the Center of the Earth, a mammoth Ichthyosaurus is sighted by Professor Lidenbrock and his crew.
Steampunk gained maximum popularity in the 1980s and the 1990s. KW Jeter's Morlock Night established the tone of this genre. The most popular piece of this genre is said to be Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. It later became an adaptation by Walt Disney as Captain Nemo's Nautilus Submarine.
How to identify good steampunk fiction: While looking for good steampunk fiction, it is important to have read some of the following books. An aficionado of steampunk literature swears by some of the following books: A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, The War of the Worlds by HG Wells, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Last Man by Mary Shelley, Soulless by Gail Carriger, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. Or read Steampunk comics; one can always pick up the Steampunk series by illustrator Chris Bachalo and writer Joe Kelly. Once a reader is able to relate to any of the mentioned works of fiction, they should be able to identify and pick the steampunk works of their choice.
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