Post #84551 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Sun, Apr 4, 2004 7:58 PM

On 2004-04-04 19:04, Kono wrote:
How about Dr Dolittle? Or would that be more fantasy than sci-fi?

I'm not familiar enough with it, but from what I do know, I'm thinking children's fairy tale.

I don't have a real strong handle on the steampunk concept. Would "The Wild Wild West" be steampunk?

Yep... Not a lot of Steampunk fans cared for the movie (I think it's alright if you turn your brain off), but the technology is definitely Steampunk.

How about the Doc Savage books? Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter/Lost World/Tarzan pulps? Man I loved that stuff when I was a kid.

Pulp is a genre unto itself. Scientific Romances basically ran through the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Pulp picks up the war and interwar years, to be followed by straight-up Sci-Fi as we known it today. Steampunk is, technically, modern imitation or adaptation of Scientific Romances.

Anyways, Doc Savage is Pulp, and Burroughs' work sort of straddles the line between Scientific Romance and Pulp. And, incidentally, The Lost World (my favorite novel!) was by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You might be thinking of Burroughs' Land that Time Forgot trilogy.

What does the steampunk crowd do/collect? Are there art, music, clothing style genres that especially appeal to the steampunk community? Just curious.

I should probably just refer you to my Steampunk website for further details: http://welcome.to/steampunk

Cory