List of steampunk works

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.

Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term “steampunk” originated in the late 1980s as a tongue-in-cheek variant of cyberpunk.

This article is a list of works in the science fiction and fantasy genres considered by commentators to be steampunk.

Precursors

Although the term “steampunk” was not coined until 1987, several works of fiction significant to the development of the genre were produced before that. For example, Mervyn Peake's novel Titus Alone (1959) anticipated many of the tropes of steampunk.

Steampunk was particularly influenced by, and often adopts the style of the scientific romances and fantasies of the 19th century. Notably influential authors are:

• G. K. Chesterton
• Charles Dickens
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• George Griffith
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Albert Robida
• Mary Shelley
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Bram Stoker
• Mark Twain
• Jules Verne

• H. G. Wells

Early adaptations of this scientific romance literature genre to film, particularly those from the 1950s and 1960s, are notable precursors of steampunk cinema:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954, film)
• From the Earth to the Moon (1958, film)
• The Time Machine (1960, film)
• Master of the World (1961, film)
• Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969, film)

In comics/graphic novels

Year	Creator(s)	Title	Publisher	Note	Ref.
1984	Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill & Bryan Talbot	Nemesis the Warlock Book IV: The Gothic Empire	IPC Magazines Ltd (1984)
2009	Bryan Talbot	Grandville	Jonathan Cape
2006	Doug TenNapel	Iron West	Image
2001	Phil Foglio & Kaja Foglio	Girl Genius	Studio Foglio LLC
2001	Hiromu Arakawa	Fullmetal Alchemist	Square Enix	Manga and Anime
1993	Grant Morrison& Steve Yeowell	Sebastian O	Vertigo
1999	Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	America's Best
1998	Kia Asamiya	Steam Detectives	Shueisha	Manga and Anime
2000	Joe Kelly & Chris Bachalo	Steampunk	Cliffhanger	Cancelled after 12 issues
1998	Lea Hernandez-	Cathedral Child	Cyberosia	Part of the Texas Steampunk series
1990	Bryan Talbot	The Adventures of Luther Arkwright	Valkyrie Press(1989), Dark Horse Comics (1990)	Nine part series
2010	Joe Benitez	Lady Mechanika	Aspen MLT
1989	Brian Augustyn, Mike Mignola & P. Craig Russell	Gotham by Gaslight	DC Comics	Part of the Elswords

In film

Year	Creator(s)	Title	Studio	Note	Ref.
1958	Karel Zeman	The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
1961	William Witney	Master of the World
1979	Nicholas Meyer	Time After Time
1981	Oldřich Lipský	The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
1986	Hayao Miyazaki	Laputa: Castle in the Sky	Studio Ghibli	Anime
1988	Yahoo Serious	Young Einstein		Comedy
1994	Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro	The City of Lost Children
1994	Dennis Sisterson	Steam Trek: The Moving Picture	Ad Hoc Film Society	Star Trek fan film
1995		Cannon Fodder
1999		Wild Wild West
2001		Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001		Vidocq
2002		Treasure Planet	Walt Disney Pictures
2002	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Turn A Gundam	Sunrise	Anime
2003		The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	20th Century Fox
2004	Hayao Miyazaki	Howl's Moving Castle	Studio Ghibli	Anime
2004	Katsuhiro Otomo	Steamboy		Anime
2004		Van Helsing	Universal Pictures
2005		The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello		short film
2006		The Prestige	Touchstone Pictures
2007		The Golden Compass	New Line Cinema
2008/2009	Philip Eisner	Mutant Chronicles	Isle of Man Film, Grosvenor Park
2009	Shane Acker	9	Focus Features
2009		Sherlock Holmes	Silver Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures
2010		Nickel Children	EslingerFilm	short film
2010	Rob Letterman	Gulliver's Travels	Dune Entertainment Davis Entertainment Company
2010		The Anachronism		short film
2010	Can Eren	Ahnectha "voiceless room"		short film
2010		Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man	Whitestone Motion Pictures	short film
2010	London Homer-Wambeam	Forewarned	Petrifying Productions
2010	Jeff Andersen	The Fall of Erebus		short film
2011	Matthew Salleh	Aurora	Urtext Film Productions	short film
2011	Paul W. S. Anderson	Three Musketeers (2011)
2011	Matthew Salleh	Aurora	Urtext Film Productions	short film
scheduled for 2015	Balázs Hatvani	Thelomeris

In literature

Year	Author(s)	Title	First Publisher	Note	Ref.
1967	Ronald W. Clark	Queen Victoria's Bomb	Jonathan Cape
1971	Michael Moorcock	Warlord of the Air		A Nomad of the Time Streams book 1
1974	Michael Moorcock	The Land Leviathan		A Nomad of the Time Streams book 2
1979	K. W. Jeter	Morlock Night
1981	Michael Moorcock	The Steel Tsar	Granada	A Nomad of the Time Streams book 3
1983	Tim Powers	The Anubis Gates	Ace Books
1983	Bertram Chandler	Kelly Country	Penguin Books
1987	K. W. Jeter	Infernal Devices	St. Martin's Press
1990	William Gibson & Bruce Sterling	The Difference Engine	Gollancz
1992	Kim Newman	Anno Dracula	Simon & Schuster	Anno Dracula series book 1. World Fantasy Award nominee
1992	James Blaylock	Lord Kelvin's Machine	Arkham House
1993	Stephen Baxter	Anti-Ice	Ace Books
1994	Stephen Hunt	For the Crown and the Dragon	Green Nebula
1994	Paul J. McAuley	Pasquale's Angel
1995	Philip Pullman	Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)		His Dark Materials book 1
1995	Paul Di Filippo	The Steampunk Trilogy		Collection of 3 stories
2000	China Miéville	Perdido Street Station	Macmillan	A Bas-Lag novel
2001	Philip Reeve	Mortal Engines Quartet	Scholastic
2001	S.M. Stirling	The Peshawar Lancers	Tor
2001	Joe R. Lansdale	Zeppelins West		"Ned the Seal" trilogy book 1
2003	Ian R. MacLeod	The Light Ages	Ace Books	"The Light Years" book 1
2004	Theodore Judson	Fitzpatrick's War	DAW Books
2004	Kenneth Oppel	Airborn	HarperCollins	First in series
2006	Joe R. Lansdale	Flaming London		"Ned the Seal" trilogy book 2
2007	Jay Lake	Mainspring	Tor Books
2006	Gordon Dahlquist	The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters	Bantam Press
2007	Stephen Hunt	The Court of the Air	HarperCollins	Jackelian series book 1
2007	Jonathan Green	Pax Britannia	Abaddon Books
2007	Ginn Hale	Wicked Gentlemen	Blind Eye Books	Gaylactic Spectrum Award winner.
2008	George Mann	The Affinity Bridge	Snowbooks
2008	Toby Frost	Space Captain Smith	Myrmidon Books	Chronicles of Isambard Smith series book 1
2008	Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer	Steampunk	Tachyon Publications	Anthology
2008	Dru Pagliassotti	Clockwork Heart	Juno Books	RT Book Reviewers' Choice Award 2008: Best Small Press Contemporary Paranormal / Futuristic Novel
2008	Stephen Hunt	The Kingdom Beyond the Waves	HarperCollins	Jackelian series book 2
2008	Nick Gevers	Extraordinary Engines	Solaris	Anthology
2009	Chris Wooding	The Black Lung Captain	Spectra	Tales of the Ketty Jay 2
2009	Chris Wooding	The Iron Jackal	Gollancz	Tales of the Ketty Jay 3
2009	Gail Carriger	Soulless	Orbit Books	first novel of the Parasol Protectorate series
2009	Richard Harland	Worldshaker	Allen and Unwin (Aus) Simon & Schuster (US)	First in series, Tam-Tam Je Bouquine Award 2011 Inky Award 2009
2009	Scott Westerfeld	Leviathan	Simon Pulse	First in a New Series
2009	Cherie Priest	Boneshaker	Tor	First installment in the Clockwork Century Series
2009	Stephen Hunt	The Rise of the Iron Moon	HarperCollins	Jackelian series book 3
2010	Meljean Brook	The Iron Duke	Berkley Trade	The first in the Iron Seas series
2010	Scott Westerfeld	Behemoth	Simon Pulse	2nd book in the Leviathan series
2010	Cherie Priest	Dreadnought	Tor	Second installment in the Clockwork Century Series
2010	Dexter Palmer	The Dream of Perpetual Motion	Picador
2010	Cassandra Clare	The Infernal Devices (series)	Walker Books
2010	Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer	Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded	Tachyon Publications	Anthology
2010	Lavie Tidhar	The Bookman	Angry Robot	The Bookman Histories series book 1
2010	Stephen Hunt	Secrets of the Fire Sea	HarperCollins	Jackelian series book 4
2010	Jean-Christophe Valtat	Aurorarama	Melville House Publishing	The Mysteries of New-Venice, I
2011	Philippa Ballantine & Tee Morris	Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel	HarperCollins Publishers	The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences book 1
2011	Chris Wooding	Retribution Falls	Gollancz	Tales of the Ketty Jay 1
2011	Jedediah Berry	The Manual of Detection	Heinemann
2011	Lavie Tidhar	Camera Obscura	Angry Robot	The Bookman Histories series book 2
2011	Stephen Hunt	Jack Cloudie	HarperCollins	Jackelian series book 5
2011	Wayne Reinagel	Modern Marvels - Viktoriana	Knightraven Studios	First book of the Modern Marvels Trilogy
2011	Richard Harland	Liberator	Allen and Unwin (Aus)	Second in series
2011	Margaret Killjoy	What Lies Beneath the Clocktower	Combustion Books
2011	Ged Maybury	Across the Stonewind Sky	Jaffa Books	Into the Storm's Domain book 1
2011	Balogun Ojetade	Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2)	Roaring Lions Media, LLC	Book 1: "Judges"; Book 2: "Kings"
2011	Robert Brown	The Wrath of Fate	Three Ravens	Book One of the Airship Pirate Chronicles
2012	Stephen Hunt	From the Deep of the Dark	HarperCollins	Jackelian series book 6
2012	Philippa Ballantine & Tee Morris	The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel	HarperCollins Publishers	The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences book 2
2012	Lavie Tidhar	The Great Game	Angry Robot	The Bookman Histories series book 3
2012	Lee Tisler	The Cog Work Apprentice in Dark Skies		Book One in the Tineborough Adventure Series
2012	Ann VanderMeer	Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution	Tachyon Publications	Anthology
2012	Sean Wallace	The Mammoth Book of Steampunk	Constable & Robinson / Running Press	Anthology
2012	Kevin J. Anderson	Clockwork Angels: The Novel	ECW Press	Steampunk - Fiction
2012	Scott Harrison	Resurrection Engines: 15 Extraodinary Tales of Scientific Romance	Snowbooks	Anthology
2012	Karina Cooper	Tarnished	Avon	First in The St. Croix Chronicles. Nominated for RT Award’s Best Steampunk of 2012.
2012	Karina Cooper	Gilded	Avon	Second in The St. Croix Chronicles.
2012	Paul Marlowe	Ether Frolics	Sybertooth	Short story collection.
2013	James Blaylock	The Aylesford Skull	Titan	A Langdon St. Ives novel.
2013	Joseph A. Lovece	The Steam Man of the West	Joseph Lovece	The Steam Man of the West series Book One
2013	Andrius Tapinas	Hour of the Wolf	Andrius Tapinas	Steam and Stone Saga Book 1
2013	Khurt Khave	A Steampunk Guide to Tea Dueling	Dangerous Worlds	Steampunk Non-fiction
2013	Jean-Christophe Valtat	Luminous Chaos	Melville House Publishing	The Mysteries of New-Venice, II
2014	Khurt Khave	Chainsaw Alice in Wonderland	Dangerous Worlds	Steampunk Horror
2014	Jacopo della Quercia	The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy	St. Martin's Griffin	Steampunk / Historical Fiction

In music

Steampunk musicians

The following is a list of musicians and bands that have either adopted a steampunk aesthetic in their appearance, or have a decidedly steampunk approach to their music.

• Abney Park
  • Robert Brown

Beats Antique

• Charles von Vitic
• The Clockwork Dolls

• The Clockwork Quartet
• The Cog is Dead
• Corset

• Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
• Doctor Steel
• The Extraordinary Contraptions
• Frenchy and the Punk
• H.U.M.A.N.W.I.N.E.

• Insomniac Folklore

• Jon Magnificent
• Jill Tracy
• Les Claypool
• Martin Irigoyen
• The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing
  • Andrew O'Neill
• Poplock Holmes
• Professor Elemental

• Psyche Corporation

• Rasputina
• Steam Powered Giraffe

• Sunday Driver

• Thomas Truax

• Unextraordinary Gentlemen

• Unwoman

• Vernian Process

• Victor Sierra

• Veronique Chevalier

• Voltaire

• Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys

Other bands that have produced steampunk-themed works

While not strictly steampunk in their general appearance or approach to music, several musicians and bands have produced music, music videos or concept albums that directly appeal to the steampunk aesthetic. Included in these are:

• AC/DC - Rock 'N Roll Train (video, stage production)

• Justin Bieber - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Arthur Christmas Version) (video)

• David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj - Turn Me On (video)

• John Hartford - Steam Powered Aereo-Takes (album)

• Lovett - Eye of the Storm (video)

• Mushroomhead - Qwerty (video)

• Gary Numan - Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) (album)

• Panic! At The Disco - The Ballad of Mona Lisa (video)

• Rush - Clockwork Angels (album and Time Machine tour)

• Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight (video)

• Lindsay Stirling - "Roundtable Rival" (video)

• Tom Waits - Blood Money (Tom Waits album)

• Therion - Adulruna Rediviva

• Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (video)

In performance art

• Airship Isabella

• League of S.T.E.A.M. (Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparition Management), a.k.a. the "Steampunk Ghostbusters", a performance art troupe from Southern California popular in the steampunk community and specializing in live interactive themed entertainment

• Penny Dreadful Productions

In role-playing games

• Airship Pirates (2011)
• Castle Falkenstein (1994) by Mike Pondsmith
• Forgotten Futures (1993) by Marcus L. Rowland
• GURPS Steampunk (2000)
• Iron Kingdoms (2004)
• Space: 1889 (1988)

In television

Year	Creator(s)	Title	Studio	Note	Ref.
1965	Michael Garrison	The Wild Wild West		CBS series
1982	John Hawkesworth	Q.E.D.		CBS series
1982	James D. Parriott	Voyagers!	James D. Parriott Productions	NBC series
1990	Hideaki Anno	Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water	Gainax	NHK series
1993	Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Boam/Cuse Productions	Fox Broadcasting Company series
1995	Michael Piller and Bill Dial	Legend (TV series)	Gekko Film Corp / Bill & Mike Productions	Paramount Television series
1999	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Turn A Gundam	Sunrise	Fuji Television series
2000	Gavin Scott	The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne	Filmline International	Sci Fi series
2003	Koichi Chigira	Last Exile	Gonzo	TV Tokyo series
2006	Katsura Hoshino	D. Gray Man	TMS Entertainment	TV Tokyo series
2006	Chris Prynoski, Bryan Fuller, Mike Mignola	The Amazing Screw-On Head	Syfy Digital	Syfy pilot (1 episode), animated
2008	Maureen Jennings, Cal Coons, Alexandra Zarowny	Murdoch Mysteries	Shaftesbury Films	Citytv; 2011- CBC
2008	Damian Kindler	Sanctuary	Syfy Digital	Syfy web series
2009	Ryan Copple, Kaleena Kiff	Riese	Syfy Digital	Syfy web series
2011	Jack Kenny David Simkins	Warehouse 13	Syfy	Syfy series
2012	Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko	The Legend of Korra	Nickelodeon	Nickelodeon series
2012	Ernie Altbacker Rick Morales	Green Lantern: The Animated Series Season 1 episode 16, "Steam Lantern"	Cartoon Network	Cartoon Network series

In video games

• Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001)

• Bang! Howdy (2006)

• Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)

• BioShock Infinite (2013)

• Damnation (2009)

• Darkwatch (2005)

• Dishonored (2012)
• Elemental Gimmick Gear
• Final Fantasy VI (1994)

• Gatling Gears (2011)

• Greed Corp (2010)

• Guns of Icarus (2009)
• Guns of Icarus Online (September 2012)

• Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998)

• On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Steampunk RPG, first two episodes [out of four] available) (2007-8)

• Myst series (1993 - 2005)
• Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent (2009) MMORPG set in a steampunk style fantasy world.

• Nostalgia (2008) Steampunk fantasy RPG for Nintendo DS
• Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey (1999)
• Professor Layton (2007–2011)
• Progear (2001)

• Resonance of Fate (2010)

• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (2006)

• Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow (2008)

• Skies of Arcadia (Victorian Fantasy setting, where the main form of transportation is Airships) (2000)
• Steambot Chronicles (2006)
• Steel Empire (1992)

• Styx: Master of Shadows (2014)
• submachine (2005)
• Syberia (2002)
• The Chaos Engine (1993)
• The Eidolon (1985)

• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (2013)
• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II (2014)
• The Order: 1886 (2014)
• Thief series (1998–2014)
• Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams (* Steel Empire (1992)
• Wild ARMs (1997)

In Web series

• Dirigible Days (2012)
• Jonathon Worthington, Strangelight Investigator (2009)
• Mantecoza (2011)
• Riese: Kingdom Falling (2009)
• The Vagabonds (2012)
• To Kill A Princess (2013)

See also

• Dieselpunk
• Retro-futurism
• Science fiction Western

External links

• Steampunk bibliography and list of exhibits and blogs, UC Davis Library
• Steampunkopedia, a compendium of all things steampunk, including a chronology