registration. 1  the act of registering. 2  an instance of this. 3  an entry in a register. 4  the group or number registered. 5  an official act of registering one's name in the list of qualified voters. 6  a certificate attesting to the fact that someone or something has been registered: a boat registration.
-K.W. Jeter. The term Steampunk was first coined in 1987 by K. W. Jeter, the author of the novel Morlock Night. He used the term to describe a genre of speculative fiction in which steam, not electricity, drove technological advancements.Since then it has been used to describe an artistic and cultural movement.ules Verne, one of the forefathers of steampunk. Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like steampunks, perhaps....
Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage 's Analytical Engine.teampunk is influenced by and often adopts the style of the 19th-century scientific romances of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley. Several works of art and fiction significant to the development of the genre were produced before the genre had a name.