THE GREAT STEAMPUNK TIMELINE (to be printed A3 portrait size) LITERATURE FILM & TV GAMES PARALLEL TRACKS 1818 - Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley) 1864 - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) K N 1865 - From the Earth to the Moon (Jules Verne) U P 1869 - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) - O 1895 - The Time Machine (HG Wells) T O 1896 - The Island of Doctor Moreau (HG Wells) R P 1897 - Dracula (Bram Stoker) 1898 - The War of the Worlds (HG Wells) 1901 - The First Men in the Moon (HG Wells) 1954 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Disney) 1965 - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Joan Aiken) The Wild Wild West (CBS) 1969 - Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (MGM) 1971 - Warlord of the Air (Michael Moorcock) 1973 - A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (Harry Harrison) K E N G 1975 - The Land That Time Forgot (Amicus Productions) U A 1976 - At the Earth's Core (Amicus Productions) P S S 1977 - The People That Time Forgot (Amicus Productions) A R 1978 - Warlords of Atlantis (EMI Films) B Y 1979 - Morlock Night (K. W. Jeter) L R 1982 - Burning Chrome, Omni (William Gibson) A E 1983 - The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers) 1983 - Warhammer Fantasy tabletop game > Bruce Bethke coins 'Cyberpunk' (Amazing) 1984 - Neuromancer (William Gibson) 1986 - Homunculus (James Blaylock) 1986 - Laputa Castle in the Sky (Studio Ghibli) 1987 - > K. W. Jeter coins term 'steampunk' in a letter to Locus magazine 1987 - Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game K 1987 - The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (Bryan Talbot) N U 1988 - Space 1889 RPG (GDW) P R 1989 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (DC Comics) The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Zenith) E B 1990 - The Difference Engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling) Y 1991 - Ultima Worlds 2: Martian Dreams (PC) C 1993 - Anti-Ice (Stephen Baxter) E 1994 - Castle Falkenstein RPG (R.Talsorian) G A 1994 - Final Fantasy (PC) S S 1994 - For the Crown & The Dragon (Stephen Hunt) For the Crown & The Dragon (Stephen Hunt) A R 1994 - Warcraft (PC) B 1995 - 'Flintlock fantasy' coined in a E T review in Protostellar magazine A L 1995 - Flintloque tabletop game (Alternative Armies) 1995 - Northern Lights (Philip Pullman) 1995 - The Steampunk Trilogy (Paul Di Filippo) 1995 - The Time Ships (Stephen Baxter) 1996 - Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (TV) 1996 - Neal Stephenson. The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer 1997 - The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers) 1997 - The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman) 1998 - Infernal Devices (K. W. Jeter) 1999 - Heart of Empire, the Legacy of Luther Arkwright (Bryan Talbot) 1999 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume I (Alan Moore) ) 1999 - Wild Wild West (Warner Bros.) K N U P 1999 - Great Dot Com Bust - 2000 - Boilerplate (Paul Guinan) Y C 2000 - Perdido Street Station (China Miéville) N E 2000 - The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman) G E R 2000 - The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (Filmline) ( 2001 - Scarlet Traces (Ian Edginton) Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney) Y S A 2001 - Girl Genius (Phil and Kaja Foglio) Children of the Sun RPG (dieselpunk coined) T N R 2001 - The Peshawar Lancers (SM Stirling) Arcanum (PC) A E F L I K O 2001 - World Trade Center destroyed/Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan C B 2002 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2 (Alan Moore) O E L T H T N 2003 - 2nd Gulf War I G L F N 2003 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (20th C. Fox) I T 2004 - Airborn (Kenneth Oppel) Howl's Moving Castle (Studio Ghibli) H G 2004 - Steamboy (Sunrise) I L 2004 - Skybreaker (Kenneth Oppel) Van Helsing (Universal Pictures) 2006 - Larklight (Philip Reeve & David Wyatt) 2006 - Peter Jackson options Temeraire books Temeraire (Naomi Novik) 2006 - SalonCon (USA) - first steampunk convention Final Fantasy VI 2006 - The first Maker Faire 2007 - Mainspring (Jay Lake) The Golden Compass (New Line) BioShock (PC) 2007 - The Court of the Air (Stephen Hunt) The Court of the Air selected by Berlinale Film Festival Steambot Chronicles (Playstation) 2007 - World financial crisis 2008 - Starclimber (Kenneth Oppel) Abney Park's Lost Horizons album 2008 - Extraordinary Engines (Nick Gevers) 2008 - Affinity Bridge (George Mann) 2008 - Pax Brittania: Leviathan Rising (Jonathan Green) 2008 - Pax Brittania: Unnatural History (Jonathan Green) 2008 - Space Captain Smith (Toby Frost) ) 2008 - The Kingdom Beyond the Waves (Stephen Hunt) S U E O 2009 - Boneshaker (Cherie Priest) Sanctuary (tv series - not webisodes) Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent L T Y S 2009 - Leviathan (Scott Westerfeld) T D S G A 2009 - Pax Brittania: Evolution Expects (Jonathan Green) E E N F I H O 2009 - Pax Brittania: Human Nature (Jonathan Green) Machinarium (PC) L L A E 2009 - Grandville (Bryan Talbot) Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros.) S B M A A Y 2009 - Soulless (Gail Carriger) K E A N T 2009 - The Rise of the Iron Moon (Stephen Hunt) Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo) L S U P P S L 2009 - Warehouse 13 (SyFy) L O M U C A 2010 - Blameless (Gail Carriger) F E R 2010 - Changeless (Gail Carriger) T U S 2010 - Pax Brittania: Blood Royal (Jonathan Green) O Y 2010 - Retribution Falls (Chris Wooding) ( 2010 - Secrets of the Fire Sea (Stephen Hunt) 2010 - The Dream of Perpetual Motion (Dexter Palmer) BioShock 2 (PC) 2010 - The Bookman (Lavie Tidhar) Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Luc Besson) 2010 - Ghosts of Manhattan (George Mann) Warner Bros. plan to produce Larklight movie 2011 - Heartless (Gail Carriger) 2011 - Jack Cloudie (Stephen Hunt) War of the Worlds: Goliath (Tripod Ent.) (c) Stephen Hunt 2010 - www.StephenHunt.net.