In today’s Guardian Michael Moorcock reviews The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry. Along the way he talks a bit about the Steampunk phenomenon.

Steampunk reached its final burst of brilliant deliquescence with Pynchon’s Against the Day and his Airship Boys. Once the wide world gets hold of an idea, however, it can only survive through knowing irony. Its tools, its icons, its angle of attack are absorbed into the cultural mainstream.

So, Steampunk has been dead since 2006, eh? Then again, Moorcock was writing it back in 1971 so he has every right to say such things.