Note I am entirely stealing from Ellen Kushner's explanation at a reading a few days ago. The phrase got coined as a reaction to the cyberpunk thing, because cyberpunk was cool so it was a way to term something else in a similar manner. There was steampunk too, of course, and mannerpunk became what you called stuff that wasn't steampunk but was very much about hierarchy and manners and witty dialogue.
Ah, I think I get it. Sounds *very* interesting. I like the formal aspects of Victorian-era steampunk, i.e. the restrictive and precise manners, the well-educated dialog; but am not so interested in the "steam" bits, for instance. Is that close?
Yeah, no science, and not necessarily Victorian. Like my two novel projects are non-victorian eras (one is Regency-esque and the cowritten one is sort of Regency + Ancient Rome) and this story seems to be Baroque.
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