steampunk(editing)

Steampunk is a one of subgenre of SF based on nineteenth century mostly Belle Époque era. It started to appear in 1976 by UK writers Christoher Priest's The space machine(1976) and Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable which express nostalgic optimism for 19 century technology according to encyclopedia. It is simular to cyberpunk but different style which it has dystopian character meanwhile steampunk is generally bright and filled with optimistic hope for future technology.