"So it's the Victorian Era without all the disease and pestilence?" asks Rocca. "Yeah, absolutely!" said one devotee. Jake von Slatt came to the fair in HIS steampunk (well, his diesel-powered bus).

Steampunk superheroes are not an unfamiliar concept, ... Victorian-era Doctor Octopus ... Meet the entire cast of 1950s greaser Batman’s Gotham City ...

The Steampunk literary and arts movement is thriving in Connecticut, with festivals, authors, costumed parties and regular monthly events held by the Silk City Steampunk society in Manchester.

Set in a Victorian steampunk era, Clockwork Empires is a sandbox city-builder that puts the player in the mind of a bureaucratic entity sent forth to colonize and expand the empire.

Steampunk Springfield includes three exhibitions at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum and the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History from March 22 to Sept. 28.

There’s a lot for RPG fans to enjoy in this game, as well as those looking to explore a unique kind of steampunk environment that’s neither a dystopian city nor an alternative Victorian-era world.

Rather than postpone the festival to the fall and compete with a number of other events in the state, the annual Steampunk will skip 2020.