GURPS Steampunk 1 Settings and Style

Contents
Introduction
	What Is Present
	Publication History
	About the Author
1. Dreams of Steam
	What Is Steampunk?
	Sources
		Period Fiction
		The Steam Age and Punk
		Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor
		Proto-Steampunk
		The First Years of Steampunk
		Historical Fiction
		“Maker” Culture
		The 21st Century: Goths Discover Brown
2. The Inspirational Era
	The Age of Romantic Science
		Revolutions, Political and Otherwise
		The Long 19th Century
		The World in 1789
		The Napoleonic Wars
		Late Georgian Days
		An Age of Exploration
		Crime and Police
	The Early Victorian Era
		A New Kind of World
		Go West!
		Imperial Expansion
		Mitteleuropa n Cool, Prussian Villainy?
	The Long Afternoon
		New Technologies
		Steam in the West
		The Looming War
		The Fashoda Incident
		The Scramble for Africa
		Edwardian Twilight
		Non-Western Steampunk
3. Steampunk and Game Worlds
	Subgenres
		Modes
		The One Big Difference
		Moods
		Technological Bases
		What’s Wrong With Airships?
		Quick and Dirty Steam-Tech
		Neo-Steampunk Futures
		Steampunk Inventing
		Wild Technological Malfunction Table
	Magic and Psychic Powers
		Clockpunk Alchemy
		Victorian Magical Practices
		The Victorian Paranormal
	Assembling the Elements
		Period vs. Punk
		Combinations and Permutations
		The Mob Has Spoken!
4. How to Be Steampunk
	The Spirit of the Steam Age
		A Flawed Era?
		Maybe It’s All Just Show?
		The Numbers Game
		Social Class
		Masters and Servants
		What Social Status Gets You
		Going Pulp
		Hysteria, Fainting, and the Vapors
		All Is Lost!
		Scandalous Victorians
	Dressing the Part
		Georgian Costume
		Victorian Costume
		Edwardian and Pre-WWI Costume
		Steampunking Other Genres
		Period Punk and Raygun Gothic
	Etiquette
		Formal Manners
		More Scandalous Victorians
		Putting Some Punk on It
Glossary
Further Reading and Viewing
Index