Steampunk
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Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and aesthetics prominently inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery and design. Steampunk wo
Original illustration of Jules Verne's Nautilus engine room
Print (c. 1902) by Albert Robida showing a futuristic view of air travel over Paris in the year 2000 as people leave the opera
"Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century
Truth Coffee, a steampunk café in Cape Town, South Africa
Cyberpunk
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Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction set in a dystopian future. It is characterized by its focus on a combination of "lowlife and high tech". It features a range of futuristic technological and
Steampunk
…seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term "steampunk" originated largely in the 1980s as a tongue-in-cheek variant of "cyberpunk". It was coined by science fiction author K. W. Jeter, who was trying to find a general term for works by Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates, 1983), James…
A screenshot of InSilico, a cyberpunk city hub from Second Life
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works.
Metropolis (1927) is considered a work of proto-cyberpunk.