The other day, I was watching a movie, and my wife asked me what genre it was supposed to be, and I had the hardest time describing it.

A very enthusiastic crowd at the Wimmera Steampunk Festival ... in Victoria’s west, clad in Victorian-era dress with a dash of punk, and soaking up the eclectic performances and installations ...

What if modern technology existed in the Victorian age? That’s steampunk’s simplified anachronistic premise. Picture the noisy collision of today’s machinery with 19th-century materials and ...