Queer Theory & Futurism

[alice wellintown]

Starting in the late 1970s, the term began to be used again, this time
for eccentric, usually (but not always) British science fiction that
intentionally reflects a Victorian or Edwardian outlook. Christopher
Priest (a member of the H. G. Wells Society) has, for example, used or
alluded to the term "scientific romance" in some of his novels. The
contemporary use of the term also includes authors who, like the
original "Scientific Romance writers", do not consider themselves to
be science-fiction or scientific-romance authors. English historian
Ronald Wright, for instance, wrote the Wells pastiche (or homage) A
Scientific Romance: A Novel.[1]

The modern use of the term might superficially seem related to the
rise of the "Steampunk" sub-genre, but there are notable differences
between the two: modern "scientific romances" typically take a
distinctly more nostalgic or romanticized view of the era than
Steampunk, and also often involve the future rather than the past,
albeit a future based on Victorian or Edwardian sensibilities. Modern
Scientific Romances are not of any form of "punk" or cyberpunk.

from wiki scientific romance.