Recently, a blog post from a self-proclaimed steampunk fan posed that very question to his readers. He listed several reasons why Steampunk was dead: unsurprisingly, those reasons focused on a highly self-absorbed premise; that, because Steampunk wasn't exactly the same as when he started, it must be dead. At the very least, it no longer held any interest for him, which is clearly all that matters. Another opinionated blogger opined that Steampunk, having lost it's anti-authority edge, could no longer claim the "-punk" moniker at all.

Piffle.

Sorry to use such harsh language in front of the children, but seriously, I've been attending Steampunk events now for a decade. Steampunk is still going strong, and while the community certainly...

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