Before Steampunk became a global phenomenon of brass gears, fantastic machines, Victorian fashion and retro-futurist worlds, it began as a literary idea shared by a small circle of imaginative writers. James P. Blaylock was there at the beginning. A Chapman University emeritus professor and one of Steampunk literature’s original pioneers, Blaylock helped create a genre that would influence fiction, film, fashion, art and popular culture around the world. Guests heard the story of Steampunk from one of the groundbreaking writers who helped create it!