Editing Steampunk (section)

====Post-apocalyptic====
[[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)|The Last Man]]'', set near the end of the 21st century after a plague had brought down civilization, was probably the ancestor of post-apocalyptic steampunk literature. Post-apocalyptic steampunk is set in a world where some cataclysm has precipitated the fall of civilization and steam power is once again ascendant, such as in [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] anime ''[[Future Boy Conan]]'' (1978, loosely based on [[Alexander Key]]'s ''[[The Incredible Tide]]'' (1970)),<ref name="Neo Steam">{{cite web|url=http://my.mmosite.com/1424882/blog/item/unprecedented_level_of_game_service_operation_from_steampunk_mmorpg_neo_steam.html|title=Unprecedented level of game service operation' from Steampunk MMORPG Neo Steam|date=June 29, 2008|access-date=January 24, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819032506/http://my.mmosite.com/1424882/blog/item/unprecedented_level_of_game_service_operation_from_steampunk_mmorpg_neo_steam.html|archive-date=August 19, 2017}}</ref> where a war fought with superweapons has devastated the planet. [[Robert Brown (musician)|Robert Brown]]'s novel, ''The Wrath of Fate'' (as well as much of [[Abney Park (band)|Abney Park]]'s music) is set in a Victorianesque world where an apocalypse was set into motion by a time-traveling mishap. [[Cherie Priest]]'s [[Boneshaker (novel)|Boneshaker]] series is set in a world where a [[zombie apocalypse]] happened during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] era. ''[[The Peshawar Lancers]]'' by [[S.M. Stirling]] is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which a [[meteor shower]] in 1878 caused the collapse of industrialized civilization. The movie [[9 (2009 animated film)|9]] (which might be better classified as "stitchpunk" but was largely influenced by steampunk)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940840.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|title=9 Review|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 18, 2009|first=Todd|last=McCarthy|author-link=Todd McCarthy|access-date=November 19, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823010822/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940840.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|archive-date=August 23, 2009}}</ref> is also set in a post-apocalyptic world after a self-aware war machine ran amok. ''[[Steampunk Magazine]]'' even published a book called ''A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse'', about how steampunks could survive should such a thing actually happen.