Steampunk for Pynchon Readers

[David Morris]

On 10/30/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I'm a pop culture barbarian. But the sixties TV western "Wild, Wild West" was one of my favorites as a little kid. It seems to be the origin of Steampunk.

But how did the term "Steampunk" get coined?  There doesn't seem to be
anything "punkish" about it other than that Gibson wreote those
"Cyber-punk" classics.

David Morris