The beauty of
steampunk is that it is speculative fiction at its best. You can have action,
adventure, humor and tweak history to your heart’s content.
There are still
some rules, but the fun is not so much bypassing them but enhancing.
Working from a
Victorian to Edwardian era gives you all these exciting moments in history to
draw upon and incorporate into your plot, setting and characterization.
If you like doing research,
this genre gives you the opportunity to look into a myriad of topics – each with
its own breakthroughs and rock stars!
If you are clever
enough, you can take earlier figures and tweak their own history or the course
of their influence (their descendants or kin).
I’ve been choosing
the historical figures that will make it into my story and, of course, Victoria
I
have the steam technologies, the post modern buildings, the Victorian/Edwardian
fashions, but I think it is the addition of a good pirate queen that makes this
story truly screams steampunk!
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