

Often featuring retro-futuristic inventions, it has. West (Robert Conrad) and inventor Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) fight various megalomaniac villains, chief among them Dr. In The Wild Wild West, gunslinger James T.
STEAM PUNK TV
The tipping point came when local farmers started turning up in droves to the exhibition, intrigued. Way back before the very term steampunk existed, CBS broadcasted a TV show about secret agents battling mad science in the Old West. Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “steampunk”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 221. Steampunk is science fiction after a few LSD-laced absinthe jello shots it can include alternate histories, vampires, time travel, magic, and romance. Steampunk is a movement and an aesthetic inspired by the Victorian ideals of industry and steam power. Steampunk fans take part in a parade in the New Zealand town of Oamaru.

Some steampunks will take a favorite character, such as Boba Fett, Alice, Dorothy, Professor Snape, or Sherlock Holmes, and “ steampunk” him or her out by adding elements of leather (or faux leather), gears, clock parts, electricity, motors, and so on.

There is also a strong draw on literature and film for ideas.
