Eileen Gunn sez, "Michael Swanwick and I have dragged steampunk kicking and screaming out of the Victorian era, slapped it about a bit and tossed it, still writhing, into an Art Deco cityscape. Tor.com editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden described our story, Zeppelin City as "a stew of Metropolis, King Kong, Brazil, and the Critique of the Gotha Programme" and has published it as part of Tor.com's Steampunk Month. Michael and I worked on this story for so long that-- well, suffice it to say, as Michael does, that when we started it, the technology was cutting edge. Is it really steampunk? You decide. The fabulous illustration for the story, by Benjamin Carre, totally captures the cityscape with autogyro and zeppelin."
Zeppelin City (Thanks, Eileen!)
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I've heard the term DieselPunk applied to steampunk stories set in the early 20'th instead of the victorian age. I'm definitely going to read it later today.
Looks like its that missing link between steampunk and dieselpunk!
Reminds me of the scene from "The Fifth Element" when he is running from the cops in lower New York City.
I'll be the first geek to point out that while there is an airship in the background, it appears to be a different type than the kind pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. However I'll also concede that "airship city" would be a sucky title.
Looks alot like Manhattan or New York in the Crimson Skies universe.
Oooo... Deco punk... shiny...
well, why not read the fabulous Canadian (oops, sorry about that?) novelist, AIRBORN....if you want a real steampunk Treasure Ilsand.