While piracy has significantly declined over the last 2-3 centuries, it’s definitely still around, unlike other rebellious lifestyles like the American Wild West outlaw.

Allen, Mat (June 5, 2010). "Wild Guns (SNES) Review". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015 . Retrieved November 25, 2015. Bill Gorman (2010-10-13). "Syfy.com Will Premiere 'Riese: Kingdom Falling', Steampunk Digital Series, Beginning Oct 26". TVbytheNumbers. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012 . Retrieved 2010-10-23. DoctorQ (October 8, 2010). "There's No Place Like Home: Atlanta's own Penny Dreadful Productions wins Best in Show at Dragon*Con's Professional Costume Contest". Steampunk Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012 . Retrieved June 28, 2011. The German pulp magazine The Air Pirate and His Steerable Airship from 1908 to 1911, followed the adventures of Captain Mors, the "Air pirate". [30] [31] [32]Geddes, John (May 12, 2011), " 'Lady Mechanika' leads Aspen Comics", USA Today , retrieved 2022-03-30 In many ways, piracy is the "Wild West" of Europe. It has been heavily romanticized, and the popular conception of what it was is now much more fiction than fact. Mourad, Beatriz (September 26, 2018). "Sean Jara & Matt Ferguson Interview – Mysticons". Overly Animated. Archived from the original on January 22, 2020 . Retrieved November 21, 2020. We often think of piracy as an archaic and savage lifestyle. But in reality, piracy is still around in the 21st century. Some of the most infamous examples occur around the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Indian Ocean. a b c Ron Goulart, The Encyclopedia of American Comics. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 9780816018529 (pp. 19-20)

Cynthia Ward (20 August 2003). "Hayao Miyazaki: The Greatest Fantasy Director You Never Heard Of?" . Retrieved 2009-06-13. Younger readers have also been targeted by steampunk themes, by authors such as Philip Reeve and Scott Westerfeld. [88] Reeve's quartet Mortal Engines is set far in Earth's future where giant moving cities consume each other in a battle for resources, a concept Reeve coined as Municipal Darwinism. Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy is set during an alternate First World War fought between the "clankers" ( Central Powers), who use steam technology, and "darwinists" ( Allied Powers), who use genetically engineered creatures instead of machines. [89] Steampunk is more than just brass and watch parts. It’s finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetically pleasing yet still punk-ish way. It’s living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It’s taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things.Owen, Phil (7 September 2019). "Everything You Need to Know About the Crazy Fantasy World of 'Carnival Row' ". The Wrap . Retrieved 22 October 2019. A steampunk airship imitation art car by the Airpusher Collective at Burning Man 2014. Photo by Anne Gomez, Wikimedia Commons Michael Murray (December 6, 2011). "Justin Bieber Releases Steampunk Inspired Music Video for 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' ". RyanSeacrest.com. Girl Genius with its airship traffic has these. Bangladesh Dupree, for one, was a pirate queen and retains her old style while employed by Klaus. One of the first steampunk novels set in a Middle-earth-like world was the Forest of Boland Light Railway by BB, about gnomes who build a steam locomotive. Fifty years later, Terry Pratchett wrote the Discworld novel Raising Steam, about the ongoing industrial revolution and railway mania in Ankh-Morpork.