Steampunk

"Steampunk "explores this fascinating counterculture, transporting the reader on an eclectic odyssey into a weird and wonderful world of dirigibles, vaudeville and steam-powered ray guns. It celebrates the lives of steampunk's heroes and villains who are as diverse as they are pioneering. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Ada Lovelace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Aleister Crowley sit alongside body snatchers Burke and Hare and fashionistas Lady Gaga and Alexander Mcqueen, creating a spellbinding mix of science fiction, Victorian fact and contemporary kookiness.Conceived as a reaction against throwaway 'chav' culture, steampunk provides artists, innovators and techno geeks with an opportunity to indulge their love of all things high-tech whilst rejecting disposable materials like plastic in favor of brass, wood and glass. Steampunk enthusiasts combine technofetishism with a Victorian aesthetic to create whimsical heirlooms such as Dr Grymm's eyepod, a fully working iPod with mechanical eyeball control and gramophone clock, or Dr Evermore's incredible Forevertron, the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world.