Steampunk: Back to the Future with the New Victorians
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Roland, Paul. Steampunk: Back to the Future with the New Victorians. Harpenden, Hers, UK: Oldcastle Books, 2014.
Reviewed by John J. Pierce, SFRA Review #316 (Spring 2016): pp. 24-25, [1] who opens, "If you're looking to read a scholarly treatise about steampunk, you’re out of luck here. If you’re looking to write a scholarly treatise about steam- punk, Roland’s book looks to be just what the doctor ordered" (p. 24). Pierce notes that Roland handles the usual works in
tracing the origins of steampunk: the works of Verne and Wells, Michael Moorcock’s The Warlord of the Air (1971) and K.W. Jeter’s Morlock Night (1979) (Jeter later gave the genre its name), William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine (1990) and – going way back – even the retro-futurist TV series The Wild Wild West (1965-69).
The only precursor