It’s About Time

Steampunk is easy to spot but hard to define, as Scott P. Marler writes in this month’s cover story. Fantastical, sometimes twisted Victorian visions of the future as imagined in the present aren’t a nostalgia trip—today’s steampunks actively subvert 19th-century conventions of gender and race, and 21st-century technofuturism at the same time.

Illustration: Kathryn M. Weaver

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Staff

Allison Miller, editor
Kritika Agarwal, managing editor
Elyse Martin, associate editor, web content and social media
Zoë Jackson, editorial assistant
Liz Townsend, manager, data administration and integrity

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December 12, 2018

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AHA Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

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December 18, 2018

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December 28, 2018

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December 3, 2018

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