r/steampunk

So I'm planning to go all in victorian/steampunk fashion, focusing to look like a victorian mechanic/handyman, for now I have gotten what I needed except the hats, which I mainly want are flatcaps of linen (or other breathable materials) since I live in a relatively hot zone (at maximum 25-30° celsius [and the fact that I suffer more of the weather in summer than in winter]) and a bowler hat, the problem is that specially for the bowler hats they're either +150$ or are costume like (and I'm searching for an actual one without any extra design or marking if possible), where could I find more accesible options?

Was at estate sale and came across these glasses and thought they looked really cool. Does anyone know how much these are worth? Looking to find them a good home. Someone who will appreciate them.

I have a couple pairs of cheap steampunk goggles, likely bought on clearance after Halloween. I'd like to wear them on my forehead above my eyes. I also wear glasses so it's difficult to wear them over my eyes directly. But, wearing them on my forehead, they tend to slide down as I walk, and the plastic also digs into my skin.

I've been told a hat might help, but as I'm doing a mad scientist look with an old fashioned doctor coat (think Dr. Horrible, Frankenstein, ect), a hat might not go with the outfit, so I'd rather have other ideas.

One idea I've considered is putting padding around the edges of the cups, for instance leather padding like retro aviator/motorcycle goggles have. But I do not know how such leather pads would be shaped or sewn together.

I’ve been working on a bio-steampunk novel called FOREKIND.

A novel is an industrial speculative novel combining noir pressure, biopunk body horror, and philosophical science fiction.

For readers of Cormac McCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Jeff VanderMeer, and early William Gibson.

I’m trying to figure out whether the cover by artist + overall concept communicate the right atmosphere before I push harder on promotion (amazon).

Does this feel intriguing to you as steampunk / weird industrial fiction readers, or does it signal the wrong genre expectations?

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Human essence is harvested, traded, and consumed like fuel. And Jerrald Fissen is the man who cuts it out of the dying.

As a state-sanctioned executioner in the industrial grid of City, Fissen is a cold instrument of the system. He kills the condemned, collects their vital mass, and asks no questions. It is a brutal, mathematical routine.

Until a routine execution goes wrong.

Fissen draws an impossible surge of essence from a target. Instead of powering the city's machines, the illegal payload locks into his body, triggering a violent biological transformation that defies the laws of the state.

Now, the machinery that once employed him begins to close around him.

Hunted through a world of body markets and administrative predation, Fissen must survive a system that cannot let him exist. He is no hero. He is a damaged, brutal killer forcing his way through a failing world.

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