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| Orbs spinning in the void, kept in line by ruthless gravity |
Human Slaves of An Insect Nation-Imperium Reginae (a bare-bones attempt at
creating a steampunk setting)
I was never really partial to
steampunk. Not because I found the genre to be beneath me, but because when
you’ve been raised on a steady diet of British trip-your-balls-off science
fiction and Japanese psychic supermen, well…
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You can’t exactly go back to pretending like you give a damn about Star Trek |
But steampunk (for all the
unnecessary goggles, dials and cogs that it has added to perfectly functional
designs), has also added a great deal of awesome to pop culture, the kind that
you can’t exactly shrug off and pretend like it doesn’t exist. It bridges
fantasy and science fiction in that very special, bullshit science kind of way
that I have come to respect and admire.
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