What makes the steampunk genre attractive?

That's why you also find books like Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders by Richard Ellis Preston Jr, which takes steampunk into a distant future, set ... read more

This is my personal take & I am sure there are other aspects that appeal to different people. During the Victorian era humanity produced some amazing technology &; infrastructure, some of which is still used today. read more

Steampunk may also incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre. [citation needed] The first known appearance of the term steampunk was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created as far back as the 1950s or 1960s. read more