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Of course, Cyberpunk is a "what will be" idea, but Steampunk is a "what never was". As such, Steampunk will never be contradicted by dull reality.
Ultimately, Star Trek communicators were somehow cheapened by realising that far from using all that power to call in humanitarian assistance, we use it to play Angry Birds...
Steampunk will always be pure, because it will always be a counterfactual history.
Plus, girls in corsets, and with clockwork rayguns are monstrously sexy.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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