Editing Steampunk (section)

===Modern steampunk===
{{Original research section|date=November 2020}}
While Jeter's ''[[Morlock Night]]'' and ''[[Infernal Devices (K. W. Jeter novel)|Infernal Devices]]'', Powers' ''[[The Anubis Gates]]'', and Blaylock's ''[[Lord Kelvin's Machine]]'' were the first novels to which Jeter's [[neologism]] would be applied, the three authors gave the term little thought at the time.<ref name=VanderMeer>{{cite book|last1=VanderMeer|first1=Jeff|last2=Chambers|first2=S. J.|title=The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature|year=2011|publisher=Abrams Image|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8109-8958-0|url=http://steampunkbible.com/|access-date=2011-08-31|archive-date=2017-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522142855/http://steampunkbible.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|48}} They were far from the first modern science fiction writers to speculate on the development of steam-based technology or alternative histories. [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''[[Worlds of the Imperium]]'' (1962) and [[Ronald W. Clark]]'s ''[[Queen Victoria's Bomb]]'' (1967) apply modern speculation to past-age technology and society.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nevins|first1=Jess|author-link=Jess Nevins|title=Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|date=2003|publisher=[[MonkeyBrain Books|MonkeyBrain, Inc.]]|location=Austin, Texas|isbn=978-1-932265-04-0}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=March 2017}} [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''[[Warlord of the Air]]'' (1971)<ref name=Bebergal/> is another early example. [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]]'s novel ''[[A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!]]'' (1973) portrays Britain in an alternative 1973, full of atomic locomotives, coal-powered flying boats, ornate submarines, and Victorian dialogue. ''[[The Adventures of Luther Arkwright]]'' (mid-1970s) was one of the first steampunk comics.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Isomaa |first1=Saija |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9D5DwAAQBAJ&dq=The+Adventures+of+Luther+Arkwright+first+steampunk&pg=PA73 |title=New Perspectives on Dystopian Fiction in Literature and Other Media |last2=Korpua |first2=Jyrki |last3=Teittinen |first3=Jouni |date=2020-08-27 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-5872-4 |language=en}}</ref> In February 1980, [[Richard A. Lupoff]] and [[Steve Stiles]] published the first "chapter" of their 10-part [[comic strip]] ''The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Incredible Aether Flyer''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lupoff|first1=Richard|author-link=Richard A. Lupoff|last2=Stiles|first2=Steve|author2-link=Steve Stiles|title=The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Incredible Aether Flyer|magazine=[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]|date=February 1980|pages=27–32 et seq}}</ref> In 2004, one anonymous author described steampunk as "Colonizing the Past so we can dream the future."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://prof-calamity.livejournal.com/277.html|title=Steampunk Manifesto|website=prof-calamity.livejournal.com|language=en-us|last=Calamity|first=Prof|access-date=Aug 18, 2020|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807204010/https://prof-calamity.livejournal.com/277.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first use of the word "steampunk" in a title was in [[Paul Di Filippo]]'s 1995 ''Steampunk Trilogy'',<ref name=Bebergal/> consisting of three short novels: "Victoria", "Hottentots", and "Walt and Emily", which, respectively, imagine the replacement of [[Queen Victoria]] by a human/newt clone; an invasion of Massachusetts by [[Lovecraftian horror|Lovecraftian]] monsters, drawing its title from the historic racial taxonomy [[Hottentot (racial term)|"hottentot"]]; and a love affair between [[Walt Whitman]] and [[Emily Dickinson]].