| 单词 | steampunk |
| 释义 | > as lemmassteampunk steampunk n. [after cyberpunk n.; compare steam age n. at Compounds 7] Science Fiction a writer of science fiction which has a historical setting (esp. based on industrialized, nineteenth-century society) and characteristically features steam-powered, mechanized machinery rather than electronic technology; (also) such writing as a subgenre of science fiction. ΚΠ 1987 K. W. Jeter in Locus Apr. 57/2 I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like ‘steam-punks’, perhaps. 1990 CU Amiga Apr. 66/3 Anyone acquainted with CU should be familiar with the concept of cyberspace by now—but steampunk is the next progression. 1999 Entertainm. Weekly (Electronic ed.) 8 Oct. The imaginative ‘steampunk’ concept eventually bubbled up to movies like Wild Wild West. < as lemmas |
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