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15 Steampunk Novels for Steampunk Beginners (2011)
Steampunk is one of the most popular emerging genres in sci-fi and fantasy literature. It's an amalgamation of several different elements - steampunk texts imagine an alternate history - often largely centered around Victorian London - where the occult, vast conspiracies, advanced scientific discoveries, and steam-powered machines right out of a H.G. Wells novel all collide to create an exciting, undeniably "alternate" perspective on the 19th Century. (Though some steampunk novels even stretch into the early 20th Century as well.)