Steampunk conjures up images of top hats, corsets, petticoats, and aviator goggles from the 19th-century Victorian era, but underneath the surface it's anything but.
For the uninitiated, the subgenre of steampunk began in the 1980s when science fiction writers set their futuristic novels in a Victorian fantasy era that was steam-powered.
But it has evolved into a broader subculture.
