STIMPUNK.

A kind of “answer to cyberpunk” from lovers of alternative history.

We read: “steam” - from steam engines, “punk” - it’s clear why, but the idea - from the “what would happen if...” style brought to the point of hilarious madness.

Steampunk was founded by the great intellectuals of countercultural fiction Powers and Blaylock, but the most iconic of the works of the genre was created by the “enfant terrible” of alternative science fiction Paul Di Filippo !

So. In England, the throne is not Queen Victoria, but a young female newt, but Victorian norms remain the same...

In Massachusetts, glorified by the “black school of visionaries,” there was an invasion of quite Lovecraftian monsters...

To the south -western USA Walt Whitman and Emily Dickson, who discovered a way to travel between worlds, go to the strangest of worlds - the “other world”...