Personally steampunk annoys me more because, dammit, a genre with 'punk' in its name should involve some kind of rebellion. Instead steampunk tends* to worship money/power/hierarchy even more than cyberpunk does -- which, in its backward way, is something of an achievement.
But you're right; it's a little unfair to expect steampunk to do that much more than the rest of SF
* this may be an unfair generalisation -- the comments on the linked blog-post have quite a few suggestions of steampunk books/stories that don't fit this pattern.
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Date: 2010-10-29 10:41 am (UTC)Personally steampunk annoys me more because, dammit, a genre with 'punk' in its name should involve some kind of rebellion. Instead steampunk tends* to worship money/power/hierarchy even more than cyberpunk does -- which, in its backward way, is something of an achievement.
But you're right; it's a little unfair to expect steampunk to do that much more than the rest of SF
* this may be an unfair generalisation -- the comments on the linked blog-post have quite a few suggestions of steampunk books/stories that don't fit this pattern.