I recently read the first couple of books in The Parasol Protectorate series by author Gail Carriger, and thus discovered the wonders of steampunk. I’m not sure how representative her books are of the genre, as they’re definitely at the light and comic end of the spectrum, but I’m looking forward to finding out. So, what is steampunk? It’s a type of alternate history, usually set in the Victorian era, and depicts a world of great scientific advances based on, you guessed it, steam. Think Victoriana crossed with post-Apocalyptic. Some of the early classic science fiction that was written[…]