Clockwork futures : the science of steampunk and the reinvention of the modern world /
Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists. Welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative. Or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age. In the mesmerizing Clockwork Futures, Brandy Schillace re...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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| Summary: | Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists. Welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative. Or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age. In the mesmerizing Clockwork Futures, Brandy Schillace reveals the science behind steampunk, which is every bit as extraordinary as what we might find in the work of Jules Verne, and sometimes, just as fearful. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781681775180 1681775182 |