The Time Machine question

Yes I read it. No I don't have a reason. I just enjoy things. All things pretty much. I don't care what genre it is. If it's got good characters, then that's what matters. Everything else is just secondary. Steampunk, fine. Epic fantasy, hard scifi, dystopian, historical fiction, alternate history. I don't care. Music, books, games, poetry, paintings. As long as it says something important, I'll read it. Whether or not it's steampunk isn't the important part, it's what the books are saying.

I was reading Steam Punk before it was called Steam Punk. I read it because authors I like-- James Blaylock, K. W. Jeter wrote the books that started the genre. I think if you like reading the books Steam Punk is based upon, like books by Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne it's a pretty easy jump to read current books influenced by them.

Yes I did. Because in the last decade steampunk was a promising genre of SciFi. The technology of the present time is far too complex to grasp by a single mind. A smartphone alone is built using some quarter a million patents, from software to touchscreen to plastic. As it was said by Artur Clarke, "A highly developed technology is indistinguishable from magic", and so steampunk was a resort for those who wanted a "graspable" and "hard" science-fiction.

Yet, as the time passed, steampunk becae more and more inhabited with elves, magic and, as the worst, fantasy tech. In many cases it was neat, but at some point there has became too much literature about yet another elves killing zombies from the steam airships.