Who knows when Steampunk really hit the mainstream? Some point to the long article in the New York Times last summer as a harbinger of ascendancy. Others to the moment when many of us found that our ears contained tiny golden clockwork gears instead of cartilage and bone. Still others to the spontaneous appearance over Beijing last week of thousands of tiny nano dirigibles no bigger than a pinhead—which all winked out of existence a moment later—prompting me to wonder exactly what parallel universe exists just next-door).

Read the whole interview with Speed Weed on tor.com.

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