Badge Quote by 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

“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for…

— George Mann

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has…

— Ellen Glasgow

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It…

— Brad Holland

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

— Twyla Tharp

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status…

— Elif Batuman

“[Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.”

— Eric Voegelin

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

— Britt Daniel

“I’m reminded of Orville Tethington, inventor of the world’s first steam-powered fog machine. He’s also the guy who, after the Germans invented the flame…

— Jarod Kintz

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

— Charles Stross

I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

— Norman Reedus

“Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates