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Author VanderMeer, Jeff.

Title The steampunk bible [Boundless electronic resource] : an illustrated guide to the world of imaginary airships, corsets and goggles, mad scientists, and strange literature / Jeff VanderMeer with S. J. Chambers.

Publication Info. New York : Abrams Image, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- An imaginary voyage to the past: steampunk origins in Victorian imagination and innovation -- Clanking metal men, Baroque airships, and clockwork worlds -- The fiction, illustrated narratives, and story behind the stories -- From Forevertron to the Raygun rocketship and beyond: art, "making," craftsmanship, and aesthetic legitimacy -- Hair stays, goggles, corsets, clockwork guitars, and imaginary airships: -- Fashion, accessories, music, and the steampunk subculture -- Magic lanterns, robot armies, giant tuning forks, and perambulating castles: steampunk movies and television -- The future of steampunk: will clockwork gears, mechanical corsets, and dirigibles be enough?
System Details Requires Boundless App.
Subject Steampunk fiction -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Steampunk culture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Added Author Chambers, S. J.
Other Form: Print version: VanderMeer, Jeff. Steampunk bible New York : Abrams Image, c2011 9780810989580 (DLC) 2010032900 (OCoLC)655303275
ISBN 9781613121665 : $24.95
1613121660 : $24.95
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