friendly netpresence who likes to write
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.
"uhhh... oh, that's not coal smoke, it's steam! steam from the steamed punks we're having! mmmm, steamed punks!"
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.
