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“Leviathan has a wild airship. Airships are a hallmark of steampunk – you would think that it would be trains, but it’s not. And in this case, it’s not even a steam vessel. It’s a flying whale, which has been gene hacked – it’s a form of gene splicing, playing off the idea that we’re dealing with a period where evolution is new in the public imagination, and somebody could take that and run with it. What if we crossed a whale with all these other things, and created an animal that could fly through the air? They walk through the whale, there’s decks and things inside, it’s absolutely bananas. K. W. Jeter, who coined the term steampunk, said something about gonzo fantasies when he was describing steampunk early on, and this is definitely a gonzo fantasy.” Read more...
Mike Perschon, Literary Scholar
