Questions tagged [steampunk]
Steampunk is a sub-genre set in an era or world where steam power is widely used, but usually anachronistic technology (e.g. cyborgs, computers) etc.
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Short story about a boy and a modular steampunk factory
I read a short story online a few years ago, in late 2022, that I can't seem to find again. The closest I seem to get when I search various terms is "Autofac" by Philip K. Dick, but it ...
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Teen/young adult fiction anthology book that has a steampunk/Victorian era theme
I read this book four years ago (in 2020), so the details I can provide may be thin. It was an anthology book that, from what I remember, took place sometime in a Victorian-ish era, with a possibility ...
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Book with a floating steampunkish/dystopian city and a boy with an airship
I can’t remember the title, but it has a character called the toe collector and there is a glowing yellow material that is very valuable.
I read it in middle school (2021) it has a floating city or a ...
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Old Sci Fi Book where French refused to give up part of their territory to stop the war
Help me find this book or short story, from which I remember single scene.
I have read book or part of it in Czech around the year 2000.
The book is either very convincing steampunk, or very old (pre ...
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Movie where they could extract people's memories through their eyes [duplicate]
I think I saw the trailer of this movie when I was a kid, so I could say it's from the early 2000s. I don't remember much about it, but I was both intrigued and terrified. I remember some kind of ...
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Manga/graphic novel where a girl is cursed and has to enter the memories of spirits to save them
Some 8 years ago I read some manga volumes in a very distinct style. Some words I think describe the style best is gothic and steampunk. It was in black and white but I vaguely remember the covers ...
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First story to suggest some successor to steam power?
I would mention that during the 19th century, people spoke of steam (despite it not being very new, perhaps few people had direct contact with it until steam trains, etc. started to expose people) ...
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Classic steampunk anime where a woman fights multiple guards or henchmen on a moving vehicle
Okay so, I definitely never saw the whole anime show or film but there is one scene that has stuck with me that I saw in a clip and I’m so desperately trying to re-find it.
What I can remember: a ...
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What is the title of a trilogy set in a steampunk dystopian era where the main character is male and has a metal arm
The main character is very poor and lives with his dying mother. He cannot afford a metal arm until he gets hired by someone in the government to help him get elected. He works as one of his ...
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Early-mid 2010s sci-fi graphic novel about a train you could get on to leave an underground world
I read this around 2014-15. It was a black and white(?) graphic novel, taking place in an underground steampunk-esque world. The main focus of the graphic novel was on a train that you could get a ...
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Steampunk-heavy TV series which had time travel. BBC, maybe?
Several years ago, which was 2012-2014, I got into steampunk. I got to looking for TV shows with that campy, pulp-adventuring feel. When I asked on Reddit, and also googled for some to watch.
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Steampunk novel with mechanical animals, such as dogs?
I am trying to remember an old steampunk novel set in perhaps Victorian times. I only remember a few parts of the novel, but a specific part that stands out to me is that the police/detectives/maybe ...
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A movie that (possible ends with) a steampunk/iron clad boat with explosive cannonballs
A movie (possible tv series), that ended with an iron clad boat with explosive cannonballs that would be ignited by a orange glowing cannonball, pretty sure it was live action, but not sure. The rest ...
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YA graphic novel about airships
It was a series of graphic novels that I got from the library around early 2010s in North America (and I remember the art quality matching that time frame). I believe it was coloured but cannot be ...
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Cyber punk(?) detective novel with a cat thing as a "pet"?
I read this a couple years ago and it’s driving me crazy trying to remember. Futuristic detective novel where he has a semi pet called a cat thing(?) she is attracted to shiny things and he is always ...
