Zarpaulus

Writer of sci-fi and horror

Underemployed biologist and creator of the Para-Imperium setting. Currently writing the webcomic "Joanna: Ghost Hunter."


Scampir
@Scampir

Everybody wants to talk about the technology of steampunk but never what fuel is needed to run it. It's coal btw. Might as well call that shit coal-fantasy.


xenofem
@xenofem

"uhhh... oh, that's not coal smoke, it's steam! steam from the steamed punks we're having! mmmm, steamed punks!"


margot
@margot

ever since i found out that nuclear plants produce power by just making steam really fast, and therefore nuclear power is also steampunk, i've been so mad about this


Zarpaulus
@Zarpaulus

Incidentally this is what the alchemically-based nuclear piles in that Jadeclaw adventure module I mentioned yesterday were used for.

I think it was titled "Loot the Burning House."


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in reply to @Scampir's post:

I got an author very, very mad at me for writing a near-future adventure story and calling it "steampunk" when everything was atomic-energy fueled

didn't wanna listen to me when I demonstrated that nuclear energy is a very expensive way to BOIL WATER

Sounds like that author needs to read the first story Di Filippo's Steampunk Trilogy (1995), which happens to be the original use of the word "steampunk." Without giving too much away, you are exactly correct.