I just picked up a collection of steampunk stories called Extraordinary Engines, it's quite good so far.
There's any number of anime movies out there (I'm thinking Steam Boy specifically).
Wild Wild West is an example of steampunk (though it might more accurately be termed Weird West), but it's a pretty terrible film otherwise so I wouldn't recommend it. While I'm on the subject of terrible films, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen may be considered steampunk, though it blurs into gaslight romance. Read the graphic novel, it's infinitely better.
Van Helsing and the third Back to the Future film both qualify.
Any of China Mieville's Bas-Lag series of books (Perdito Street Station, Iron Council, etc) technically qualify as steampunk (though they've essentially branched off into their own genre, the New Weird).
Steampunk also encompasses the originators of speculative fiction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus; the works of H.G.Wells and especially Jules Verne (though personally I don't consider them steampunk since steampunk is more of a revisiting of those times, not actual first-hand accountings of the period - it would be like calling the ruins of the Parthenon 'Neo-Classical').
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:49 pm (UTC)There's any number of anime movies out there (I'm thinking Steam Boy specifically).
Wild Wild West is an example of steampunk (though it might more accurately be termed Weird West), but it's a pretty terrible film otherwise so I wouldn't recommend it. While I'm on the subject of terrible films, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen may be considered steampunk, though it blurs into gaslight romance. Read the graphic novel, it's infinitely better.
Van Helsing and the third Back to the Future film both qualify.
Any of China Mieville's Bas-Lag series of books (Perdito Street Station, Iron Council, etc) technically qualify as steampunk (though they've essentially branched off into their own genre, the New Weird).
Steampunk also encompasses the originators of speculative fiction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus; the works of H.G.Wells and especially Jules Verne (though personally I don't consider them steampunk since steampunk is more of a revisiting of those times, not actual first-hand accountings of the period - it would be like calling the ruins of the Parthenon 'Neo-Classical').