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	schrodingerscat 2012-04-25 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Girl Genius books! They have the benefit of being graphic novels, so you can point to the pictures. (Reply to this)

starlady42
2012-04-25 04:41 am UTC (link)

The RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies are a little steampunky.

Wild, Wild West, unfortunately.

A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, even more unfortunately.

Van Helsing

Disney's Atlantis and Treasure Planet

The Golden Compass

I haven't seen it yet (still) but Hugo looks punky to me from the trailer/promo photos

Again, I haven't watched it, but The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra looks steampunky

Of course, they'll need to have copies of The Difference Engine on hand ;)

HTH.

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full_metal_ox
2012-04-26 09:06 pm UTC (link)

Wild, Wild West, unfortunately.

I would distinguish between the movie, with its bad characterization and painful racist-versus-ableist* jokes, and the original TV series, which rocked and is available on DVD.

*Black retro-pulp author, film critic, and all-around fangeek Derrick Ferguson, a fan of the TV show, summarizes his beefs with the movie:

Y'know what really bothered me about THE WILD WILD WEST movie? Two things:

1: The writer(s) never explained how Dr. Loveless survived the lower half of his body long enough to be connected to that steampunk life support system but they spent a considerable amount of wordage trying to explain how a black man in the post Civil War era could be a Secret Service agent. I mean, we all knew going in that the movie isn't going to an accurate historical drama so why all the fancy word dancing? If it were me writing the thing I'd never have made any reference to James West being black at all.

2: They turned Artemis Gordon into a cross-dressing dunce. In the TV show Artemis Gordon was a consummate actor/master of disguise/quick chance artist as well as being a talented scientist/futurist, linguist, you name it, chances are Artie knew something about it. In a lot of ways he was a better agent than James West. But the movie did nothing more than make him a buffoon.

...And it always amuses me when people ask me why I object to the idea of a black man being a Secret Service agent in the post Civil War era I've even being accused of being racist for saying that. Most of these people have no idea I'm black myself. And it's not the idea of a black man being a Secret Service agent I object to. I like the idea myself. But if you're going to have a Western where a mad scientist builds a hundred foot tall coal-powered robot spider and don't see the need to explain how he can do that with 19th century technology then I don't see the need to take up 10 minutes of the movie's running time with an overly complicated explanation of Jim West being a black Secret Service agent.

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	the__ivorytower 2012-04-25 04:51 am UTC (link)
	Wikipedia has a list, including some things that people have talked about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steampunk_works In particular, I remember a really neat steampunk anime movie where the name utterly escapes me, but I know I saw it dubbed because there was a girl with a southern accent in it. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	the__ivorytower 2012-04-25 04:56 am UTC (link)
	In answer to my own question, Steamboy. It was absolutely awesome, and the girl's hair is what allowed me to figure it out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stardust_rain 2012-04-25 08:56 am UTC (link)
	Seconding Steamboy! The dub is actually quite mind-blowing, with awesome British Accents and features Patrick Stewart. (Although Anna Paquin's accent is a bit all over the place at times) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cairea 2012-04-25 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	Steamboy is awesome! And I totally forgot about it! thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hallidae 2012-04-25 05:13 am UTC (link)
	The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage! Includes a mad hurdy-gurdy solo. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cairea 2012-04-25 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Ooh! I vaguely remember stumbling across that years ago (probably linked from here XD) and lost track of it. I'll take a closer look once I've taken puppy for his walk. (He's all: omg mooooom stop answering emails and take me out! I'll DIE DIE DIE DIE if we don't go for a walk! All the flowers might have moved without my supervision!) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stardust_rain 2012-04-25 08:19 am UTC (link)
	http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SteamPunk There's also plenty of inspiration material under 'real life' (Reply to this)

	phosfate 2012-04-25 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	Disney's 20,000 Leagues, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Frankenstein, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells' SF works. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cairea 2012-04-25 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Hahah. Oh man. One of them is going to be thrilled that someone mentioned Brisco County, Jr. He's been trying to get the other one to watch that for years now and she keeps giving it the side-eye. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2012-04-25 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	I don't even want to know anyone who won't watch Brisco County, Jr. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cairea 2012-04-25 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	She does think Bruce Campbell is awesome, and a recommendation of it from someone else will go a long way (full disclosure: I've never seen it, either, and hadn't even heard of it until recently). And she's really trying to get out and watch/read/play things that she thinks people who want to come into their store are going to have read/watched/played. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wankaholic 2012-04-25 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	I don't normally like steampunk, but it's really good. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aaron_agonistes 2012-04-27 04:58 am UTC (link)
	I remember when it first aired, and the commercials were terrible. It looked like just another stupid slapstick show and I had no interest in watching it. But my roommate sat me down a few years ago and made me watch it, and now I can safely say it's one of my top ten TV shows of all time. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	anarchicq 2012-04-25 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Kroenen from ~~the webcomic Abe & Kroenen~~ Hellboy. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2012-04-26 11:24 am UTC (link)
	And Krauss from the second one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	crysiana 2012-04-25 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't seen the episode, but I know there was an episode of the tv series Castle that involved a steampunk club. I've heard it's actually a good representation of the style/subculture. (Reply to this)

	pantyless_angel 2012-04-25 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	The first thing that comes to my mind is Last Exile,(steam powered muskets for crying out loud.) but there's also a lot of not really steampunk things in it too. (Reply to this)

	tez 2012-04-26 12:07 am UTC (link)
	I don't have any suggestions, unfortunately, but HOLY CRAP THIS IS GOING TO BE IN EDMONDS?? I believe there will be a day trip in my future. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cairea 2012-04-26 12:58 am UTC (link)
	It is! They're having a Grand Opening To Do on June 30 with a costume contest and a tea party and possibly there'll be a band! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2012-04-26 01:43 am UTC (link)
	Oh my gawd. That's a Saturday, too. (Which is useful because Edmonds is about...oh...an hour and a half, maybe two hours from here.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cairea 2012-04-26 01:58 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, and I don't know how familiar with downtown Edmonds you are, but parking's a pain in the ass even mid-week. The Amtrak station is literally like ten minutes walk from their store, though, if that would be at all convenient. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2012-04-26 02:29 am UTC (link)
	I'm not familiar with Edmonds at all, tbh, but parking downtown can't be any worse than the parking downtown here. I'm jaundiced about downtown parking. There aren't any good times on trains from here to there, either; they're all evening rides. (Reply to this)(Parent)

zellieh
2012-04-26 10:59 am UTC (link)

Doctor Who has always had steampunk elements, although it varies, depending on the episodes. The TARDIS often has a steampunk 'look' to its interior as well.

Bagpuss, and The Wombles, have that re-using found objects ethos, so that can be steampunky in places.

The Wizard of Oz is pretty steampunky when you get to the scenes with the Wizard and his machines.

Diane Duane's book, To Visit the Queen. 1998. ISBN 0-446-67318-8. (Published in the UK as On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service. 1998. ISBN 0-340-69330-4.) is a steampunky visit to Victorian England in the company of cat-wizards and a lizard-wizard, and it's great fun.

Mercedes Lackey's Elememtal Masters series of books is set in a late 19th/early 20th C world where magic exists, and is very steampunk.

Then there's Patricia C Wrede's Mairelon the Magician books, and with Caroline Stevermer, her series of epistolary novels [info C&P from Wikipedia):

The authors tell these stories from the first-person perspectives of cousins Kate and Cecelia (and, in the third book, two additional characters), who recount their adventures in magic and polite society. These works are unusual in modern fiction in being epistolary novels, written using the style of the letter game.

Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country (1988, reprinted 2003)

The Grand Tour or The Purloined Coronation Regalia: Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality (2004)

The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm (2006)
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	blue_penguin 2012-04-27 01:48 am UTC (link)
	I would file Sorcery & Cecelia etc. and the Mairelon books more under gaslamp fantasy, personally, since IIRC they don't have the technology angle? But the atmosphere is similar enough. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	marmaladecat 2012-04-26 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Shelley Adina's "Magnificent Devices" books too. Her website. (Reply to this)

	full_metal_ox 2012-04-26 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	For your amusement (and possible edification), here's the animated short "A Gentlemen's Duel" by Blur Studios: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXET1kvEOAY (I suspect some forerunner of the ACME corporation of supplying both sides.) (Reply to this)

	iczer6 2012-04-29 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	How could someone not mention the Steam Detectives manga? (Reply to this)

	jat_sapphire 2012-05-07 12:06 pm UTC (link)
	Huh, TV Tropes apparently does not count Donaldson's The Diamond Age. That was the first thing with steampunk elements I ever read. Later I read the earlier series by Moorcock that start with The Warlord of the Air. (Reply to this)