Citations:steampunk

Noun: "a genre"

 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.
 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.
 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.
 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.
 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.
 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.
 * SF that depicts a positive high-tech future is far from extinct, but as suspension of disbelief of such a future becomes more difficult, it's largely been supplanted by steampunk and similar retro-future genres which site high-tech "futures" in the past. And by outright fantasy.

Noun: "a cosplayer"

 * It is extremely rare that you speak to someone who says "I want to be an ...." This would suggest that for the vast majority of steampunks their choice of outfit (at least intitially) is less a conscious attempt at portrayal and more of a spontaneous and potentially subconscious growth of an idea.
 * It is extremely rare that you speak to someone who says "I want to be an ...." This would suggest that for the vast majority of steampunks their choice of outfit (at least intitially) is less a conscious attempt at portrayal and more of a spontaneous and potentially subconscious growth of an idea.
 * It is extremely rare that you speak to someone who says "I want to be an ...." This would suggest that for the vast majority of steampunks their choice of outfit (at least intitially) is less a conscious attempt at portrayal and more of a spontaneous and potentially subconscious growth of an idea.