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Steampunk began as a subgenre of science fiction but has since blossomed into a full "gonzo-historical" artistic movement, "often dystopian, sometimes with noir and pulp fiction themes." It "denotes works set in an era or world where steam power", or spring driven technology "is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells." The visual art seems to possess "a presumption of functionality".