Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "From Bolt Action Lee to LMG: The Charlton Automatic Rifle" video.

@carll.freemanjr.9867 Literally a guy at a publishing company describing a single-digit number of authors who wrote stories set in 'what if the world's tech base topped out at steam and clockwork and it's society consequently didn't change all that much from victorian times... but technological development kept going anyway?' type worlds. ... Guy literally referred to them as "those steam punks" and it stuck. Follow that up with similar stories appearing in a few media with more pictures and the aesthetic becoming moderately popular, and there you are. Steampunk. (in terms of story writing and world building, it actually Does have some significant elements in common with Cyberpunk, which helped the name stick, though it has a lot of differences too. Pretty much every other 'punk' genre of fiction (but not music) derives from one of those two).
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