What Mad Universe?!?
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S3E83 -Chapter Eighty-Three: The Twelve Hours Of The Night!

On THE ANUBIS GATES, by Tim Powers

Continuing our look at the origins of Steampunk, a genre that proves to be a lot harder to nail down than you might suspect, we move on to Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates. This is a  historical fantasy, not SF, and it's technically not set in the Victorian era either. So why is it a pivotal steampunk novel? Well...

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