List of steampunk works

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Following is a list of steampunk works in the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Contents 1 In literature 1.1 Modern steampunk 1.1.1 16th century setting 1.1.2 18th century setting 1.1.3 19th century setting 1.1.4 20th/21st century setting 1.1.5 Quasi-Victorian science fiction 1.1.6 Other setting 1.2 Comics/graphic novels 1.3 Steampunk role-playing game material 2 In films 3 In television 4 In video games 5 In music 6 Notes 7 External links

[edit] In literature

[edit] Modern steampunk

Novels with an unclear setting:

• Automated Alice by Jeff Noon (1996)
• L'équilibre des paradoxes by Michel Pagel
• The Grand Ellipse by Paula Volsky

[edit] 16th century setting

This type of setting could also indicate Clockpunk

• Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick (1997)
• Pasquale's Angel by Paul J. McAuley (1994)

[edit] 18th century setting

• The Age of Unreason tetralogy by Gregory Keyes -- Newton has discovered the Philosopher's Stone
• Der Schachautomat by Robert Löhr -- translated as The Secrets of the Chess Machine

[edit] 19th century setting

Novels set in the Victorian era include:

• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2006)
• Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (1992)
• Anti-Ice by Stephen Baxter (1993)
• The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1983)
• Celestial Voyages series (2003) by Jeff Provine -- Interplanetary expeditions are launched in 1901.
• The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt (2007)
• The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss (2007)
• The Difference Engine (1990) by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling -- the designs of Charles Babbage led to the wide usage of mechanical computers in Victorian England. (See difference engine)
• Fata Morgana by William Kotzwinkle (1977)
• Homunculus by James Blaylock (1986)
• Imperial Moon by Christopher Bulis (2000) -- A Doctor Who novel set in 1878 when Queen Victoria sends a mission to the Moon.
• Infernal Devices by K. W. Jeter (1987)
• Larklight by Philip Reeve (2006)
• The Light Ages, House of Storms by Ian R. MacLeod -- Set in an England where aether has been harnessed as a power source
• Lord Kelvin's Machine by James Blaylock (1992)
• The Woman Between the Worlds by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1994) takes place in London and Weston-Super-Mare in 1898 and early 1899, and features a substantial number of real Victorian personalities as characters, notably Aleister Crowley, Sir William Crookes, William Butler Yeats, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, George Bernard Shaw, E. Nesbit, MacGregor Mathers, the members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the actress Florence Farr and others.
• "Ned the Seal" trilogy by Joe R. Lansdale:
  • Zeppelins West (2001) ^[1]
  • Flaming London (2006) ^[2]
  • The Sky Done Ripped (TBA)
• "Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang
• Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes (2007)
• The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul Di Filippo (1995)
• Snow by Tracy Lynn (February 1, 2003)--Set in Victorian England, a retelling of Snow White.
• The Sundowners series by James Swallow
• The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff by Mark Gatiss (October 4, 2005)
• The Wellborn Conspiracy series by Paul Marlowe
• Whitechapel Gods by S. M. Peters

[edit] 20th/21st century setting

Novels set in a "modern" era in the later 20th and early 21st century:

• The Horn of Mortal Danger (1980) by Lawrence Leonard, set in a secret underground steam railway parallel to the London Underground.
• Jigsaw Men by Gary Greenwood
• A Nomad of the Time Streams by Michael Moorcock:
  • The Warlord of the Air (1971)
  • The Land Leviathan (1974)
  • The Steel Tsar (1981)
• Pax Britannia:
  • Unnatural History (2007) by Jonathan Green
  • El Sombra (2007) by Al Ewing
  • Leviathan Rising (2008) by Jonathan Green
  • Human Nature (2008) by Jonathan Green
• Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson

[edit] Quasi-Victorian science fiction

Stories with a futuristic and/or alternative history settings but using pseudo-steam technology and/or Neo-Victorian style.

• Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder a steampunk-style pirate adventure set within Verga, a spherical world whose central Sun prohibits electrical devices from working, creating a neo-Victorian setting.
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson -- A steampunk-flavored adventure set in a nanotechnological future, with much of the action in a neo-Victorian society
• The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist
• Greatwinter trilogy, by Sean McMullen -- In the 40th century, modern, electronic technology has been rejected/suppressed leading to a reliance on simpler technologies.
  • Souls in the Great Machine
  • The Miocene Arrow
  • Eyes of the Calculor
• The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling -- Meteors devastate Europe and America in the 19th century, causing much of the British upper class to flee to India. The story is set in 2025 in a thoroughly Indianized Angrezi Raj (British Empire), with its capital in Delhi.
• Queen Victoria's Bomb by Ronald Clark -- in the mid 19th century; a physicist gets the idea of isotopic separation after seeing pebbles graded by size on a pebble beach, and makes an atomic bomb. He intends to use it to end the Crimean War, but it never gets used, and no difference is made to history.
• To Visit the Queen by Diane Duane -- Interference by the Lone Power results in a contaminated alternate universe in which Victorian Britain has developed (and used) atomic weapons.

[edit] Other setting

• Bas-Lag set books by China Miéville:
  • Perdido Street Station (2000)
  • The Scar (2002)
  • Iron Council (2004)
• Ghost Novels by L. E. Modesitt, Jr., set in an alternate present in which 19th century powers still dominate, and the human soul is a tangible thing. A world of difference engines, steam cars and de-souled zombie servants:
  • Of Tangible Ghosts (1994)
  • The Ghost of the Revelator (1998)
  • Ghost of the White Nights (2001)
• His Dark Materials trilogy from Philip Pullman, particularly Northern Lights (1995).
• The Hungry City Chronicles, by Philip Reeve, set in a postapocalyptic world, but with steam technology.
  • Mortal Engines (2002)
  • Predator's Gold (2003)
  • Infernal Devices (2005)
  • A Darkling Plain (2006)
• The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
• Land and Overland Trilogy by Bob Shaw
  • The Ragged Astronauts (1986)
  • The Wooden Spaceships (1988)
  • The Fugitive Worlds (1989)
• Mainspring (2007) by Jay Lake, set in an alternate Earth, whose rotation is controlled by giant brass tracks.
• Morlock Night (1979) by K. W. Jeter; a sequel to Wells' The Time Machine.
• Polystom (2003) by Adam Roberts
• The Silent Stars Go By (1991), by James White, in which a steam engine built by Hero leads to earlier technolgical revolutions and a 1492 space mission.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
• Titus Alone (1959) by Mervyn Peake (third book in the Gormenghast series).
• Monster Blood Tattoo, by D.M. Cornish. A (soon to be) series of books based in the Victorian-era themed 'Half Continent'.
• Trail of Bones (2005) by Mark London Williams (third book in the Danger Boy series) The eponymous time traveling hero joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti, in which a heroine on metal wings delivers messages in a city controlled by a the clockwork Great Engine, built inside a mountain.^[3]
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  • Wicked, the musical adaptation of the novel, particularly in set design

[edit] Comics/graphic novels

• The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire, or The Legacy of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot
• The Amazing Screw-On Head by Mike Mignola
• Avigon by Ché Gilson and Jimmie Robinson
• Baker Street by Gary Reed and Guy Davis
• Battle Chasers by Joe Madureira
• Captain Nemo by Jason DeAngelis and Aldin Viray
• Les Cités Obscures by Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten
• D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino
• Daisy Kutter by Kazu Kibuishi
• Elseworlds:
  • Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey
  • Batman: Master of the Future by Brian Augustyn and Eduardo Barreto
  • JLA: Age of Wonder by Adisakdi Tantimedh and Galen Showman
  • Justice Riders by Chuck Dixon and J.H. Williams III
• The Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders
• FreakAngels by Warren Ellis
• Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
• General Leonardo by Erik Svane and Dan Greenberg
• Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio
• Harry Kipling by Simon Spurrier and Boo Cook
• Hollow Fields, by Madeleine Rosca
• Iron West, by Doug TenNapel ^[4]
• Ironwolf by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
• Mighty Tiny by Ben Dunn:
  • Mouse Marines
  • Tales of the Old Empire
• Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man by James Vance and Ted Slampyak, based on ideas from Neil Gaiman
• Nemesis the Warlock, Book Four: The Gothic Empire by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill
• Neotopia by Rod Espinosa
• Le Régulateur by Eric Corbeyran and Marc Moreno
• The Remarkable Worlds of Professor Phineas B. Fuddle by Erez Yakin and Boaz Yakin
• Ruse by Mark Waid and Scott Beatty
• Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
• Sebastian O by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell
• Steam Detectives manga by Kia Asamiya
• Steampunk by Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo
• Stickleback by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli
• The Transformers: Evolutions - Hearts of Steel by Chuck Dixon and Guido Guidi
• Texas Steampunk series by Lea Hernandez: Cathedral Child and Clockwork Angels
• Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow

[edit] Steampunk role-playing game material

• Brassy's Men by Interactivities Ink (Live action role-playing game)
• Broken Gears by CURS Publishing
• Castle Falkenstein by Mike Pondsmith
• Deadlands
• DragonMech by Goodman Games
• Etherscope by Goodman Games
• Forgotten Futures
• Gear Antique (Japanese)
• GURPS Steampunk by William H. Stoddard
• Iron Kingdoms by Privateer Press
• Sorcery & Steam by Fantasy Flight Games
• Space: 1889
• GURPS Steam Tech edited by William Stoddard
• Terra Incognita by Scott Larson (Based on Fudge)
• Terra the Gunslinger (Japanese)
• Unhallowed Metropolis by Jason Soles and Nicole Vega
• Victoriana by Heresy Gaming
• Warhammer Fantasy (mostly renaissance and gunpowder age in nature)
• Jeff Grubb's Dungeons & Dragons works usually include steampunk gnomes; most notable are the Planescape and Spelljammer settings.

[edit] In films

Note: most of the films listed are steampunk-related either through narrative or by thematic context.

• A Trip to the Moon (1902)
• The Impossible Voyage (1904)
• Conquest of the Pole (1912)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1933 - as Island of Lost Souls, 1977, 1996)
• Things to Come (1936)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
• From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
• The Time Machine (1960, 2002)
• Mysterious Island (1961)
• Master of the World (1961)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
• First Men in the Moon (1964)
• The City Under the Sea (War Gods of the Deep) (1965)
• Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
• Time After Time (1979)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 claymation)
• Return To Oz (1985)
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
• Castle in the Sky (1986 anime)
• Windaria aka. Once Upon a Time (1987 anime)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
• The City of Lost Children (1995)
• Wild Wild West (1999)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• The Boy Who Saw the Wind (2000 anime)
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
• Vidocq (2001)
• Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf) (2001)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
• A Detective Story (2003)
• Hellboy (2004)
• Casshern (2004)
• Steamboy (2004 anime)
• Van Helsing (2004)
• Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
• Howl's Moving Castle (2005 anime)
• The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005 short film)
• Steel Fantasia (2006) (A series of animated shorts done in Flash)
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Mutant Chronicles (a steam punk universe - steam powered spaceships) (2008)
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Steampunk technology and settings) (2008)

[edit] In television

• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., FOX series
• The Amazing Screw-On Head (announced 2006 TV series)
• Arabian Nights (2000 TV series)
• The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Season Two, 1993-1995)
  • "Showdown"
• The Big O, anime TV series
• CSI: NY: "Time's Up"
• D.Gray-man, anime series
• Doctor Who:
  • "Pyramids of Mars"
  • "The Talons of Weng Chiang"
  • "Ghost Light"
• Doctor Who Series 2 (2006):
  • "Tooth and Claw"
  • "The Girl in the Fireplace"
• Fullmetal Alchemist, anime series and movie
• Future Boy Conan, 1978 anime series from Nippon Animation, featured the likes of Hayao Miyazaki (director, character designs, storyboards), Isao Takahata (storyboards) and Yoshiyuki Tomino (storyboards)
• Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (anime)
• Jack of All Trades, syndicated series
• Last Exile, 2003 anime from Gonzo Digimation
• Legend, series
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, syndicated series
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, anime TV series
• Q.E.D., series
• Read or Die, OVA
• Sakura Wars, anime TV series
• Samurai 7 a steampunk-themed anime retelling of the classic movie, Seven Samurai
• The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Sci Fi Channel series
• Secret of Cerulean Sand, anime TV series
• Sherlock Hound , anime TV series (1984). Regularly featured over the top steampunk technology.
• Steam Detectives, anime TV series
• Storm Hawks, TV series
• Tin Man (2007), Sci Fi Channel miniseries
• Trigun, anime TV series
• The Vision of Escaflowne, anime TV series
• Voyagers!, NBC (1982 series)
• The Wild Wild West, ABC series

[edit] In video games

• Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001)
• American McGee's Alice (2000)
• Bang! Howdy (2006) Wild west setting, with some purely mechanical units
• Castlevania series (1986-2006) Clockwork and steam-driven constructions, ranging from medieval-age to a near-futuristic (cyberpunk) setting.
• Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall (1995)^[5]
• Final Fantasy VI (1994)^[5]
• Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure (1993)
• MediEvil II (2000)
• Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (2008) Episodic Adventure/RPG that parodies steampunk and the Cthulhu Mythos
• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (2006)
• Sakura Wars (1996-2006) series
• Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention (1992) Steampunk elements, from characters such as Guntz through Lyle
• Skies of Arcadia ^[5][6] (Victorian Fantasy setting, where the main form of transportation is Airships) (2000)
• SkyGunner (2002)
• Slouching Towards Bedlam (2003)
• Space: 1889 (1988)
• Steambot Chronicles (2005)
• Steel Empire (1992)
• Syberia (2002-2004) series
• The Chaos Engine (1993-1996) series^[5]
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Expansion, Tribunal - The Clockwork City Created by Sotha Sil which runs primarily on steam and also Sotha Sil's steam-driven beasts.
• Thief (1998-2004) series^[5]
• Wachenröder (1998)
• World of Aden: Thunderscape (1995)^[5]

[edit] In music

These are musicians and bands that have either adopted a steampunk aesthetic in their appearance, or have a decidedly steampunk approach to their music.

• Abney Park^{[citation needed]}
• The Cassettes^{[citation needed]}
• Vernian Process^[7][8]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Steampunkopedia: compendium of all things steampunk, including Steampunk Chronology, offered by Retrostacja
• Mobygames's list of steampunk video games

Cyberpunk
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