Editing Steampunk (section)

===Origin of the term===
Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term "steampunk" originated largely in the 1980s<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Duggan|first1=Anne|title=Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World, 2nd Edition [4 volumes]: Traditions and Texts from around the World|last2=Haase|first2=Donald|last3=Callow|first3=Helen J.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2016|isbn=978-1-61069-253-3|location=Santa Barbara, CA|pages=835}}</ref> as a [[tongue-in-cheek]] variant of "[[cyberpunk]]". It was coined by science fiction author [[K. W. Jeter]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/william-higham/steampunk-what-the-hell-is-it_b_1015192.html|title=What The Hell Is Steampunk?|newspaper=HuffPost UK|language=en-GB|date=Oct 17, 2011|access-date=Aug 12, 2017|archive-date=August 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812210853/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/william-higham/steampunk-what-the-hell-is-it_b_1015192.html|url-status=live}}</ref> who was trying to find a general term for works by [[Tim Powers]] (''[[The Anubis Gates]]'', 1983), [[James Blaylock]] (''[[Homunculus (novel)|Homunculus]]'', 1986), and himself (''[[Morlock Night]]'', 1979, and ''[[Infernal Devices (Jeter novel)|Infernal Devices]]'', 1987) — all of which took place in a 19th-century (usually Victorian) setting and imitated conventions of such actual Victorian speculative fiction as [[H. G. Wells]]' ''[[The Time Machine]]''. In a letter to science fiction magazine ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]'',<ref name=":0" /> printed in the April 1987 issue, Jeter wrote:

{{blockquote|Dear Locus,

Enclosed is a copy of my 1979 novel ''Morlock Night''; I'd appreciate your being so good as to route it to Faren Miller, as it's a prime piece of evidence in the great debate as to who in "the Powers/Blaylock/Jeter fantasy triumvirate" was writing in the "gonzo-historical manner" first. Though of course, I did find her review in the March Locus to be quite flattering.

Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like "steam-punks," perhaps....|K.W. Jeter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/327|title=Science Fiction Citations|date=March 9, 2005|author=Sheidlower, Jesse|access-date=May 10, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205025641/http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/327|archive-date=February 5, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://i.imgur.com/M7ema1o.png|title=Letter – essay from K. W. Jeter|magazine=Locus|publisher=Locus Publications|volume=20|issue=4|date=April 1987|last=Jeter|first=K.W.|access-date=2016-09-26|archive-date=2016-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927014545/http://i.imgur.com/M7ema1o.png|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
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'steam-punks', with single quotes and a hyphen, is how it's rendered on one cited page and in the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online), but rendered as "steam-punks," in what seems a reproduction of the original printed letter. Since Sheidlower is an OED editor, his two cites don't really qualify as two separate sources, but they do qualify as a reliable source. However, as I was noting on the talk page, two books quoting the letter can be found in Google Books and they show it with no hyphen, "steampunks" (and in one case with double quotes). Possibly the publishers considered this an acceptable typographical variation to conform with their house styles. The actual Locus issue would be the right source to confirm the spelling, but it doesn't seem to exist online and I haven't been able to locate it through a library either. -->