189 Quotes About Steampunk

  • Author Ian Tregillis
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    Raindrops misted the Ridderzal’s immense rosette window. Water dripped from the architectural tracery that turned the window into a stained glass cog. It streaked the colored panes of oculi and quatrefoils depicting the empire’s arms: a rosy cross surrounded by the arms of the great families all girded by the teeth of the universal cog.

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  • Author Charles A Cornell
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    If you’re going to write punk fiction, you have to be brave enough to look through the lens of a different era’s telescope.

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  • Author Maxwell Grantly
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    Perhaps one day, you’ll become a man and sail the oceans too. Perhaps you’ll find buried treasure and discover new lands of your own. The world lays waiting for your adventures too and we can only dream of what they may be.

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  • Author Stephanie Osborn
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    Imagine if you will, creatures as unlike us as it is possible to be; creatures whose technology dwarfed ours as we dwarf the ants. Creatures whose sole purpose was to wipe out all existing life on Earth and replace it with their own. Beings who did not know the meaning of mercy, who were uninterested in dialogue, with whom one could not even plead. That is what we were up against, Henry.

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