Fiction Quote by G.D. Falksen

Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed…

— Paul Di Filippo

Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and…

— Paul Di Filippo

“It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character." "I don't even know what that is!" "Because your generation has…

— Girl vs Monster

There was a whole sequence of concept art about a 'Fable' set in a kind of steampunk Victoriana age.

— Peter Molyneux

“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”

— Lord Kelvin

“This story started with “how would the Beast from Beauty and the Beast be transformed in a steampunk setting?” Perhaps because of my love…

— Leslie Anderson

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its…

— Kurt Andersen

“science fiction is literary fiction with the lid blown off”

— Robin Winter

“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true." -…

— Anonymous

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

— Robert Reed