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This week Pods and Blogs visits briefly with citizens of the Steampunk movement. Victorian history meets science fiction mechanics in a beautifully designed world online and off.

To begin, with the delightful editor of Allegra Hawksmoor explains the culture. We spent our time discussing the multiple ways in which Steampunk can be translated. She also points out why it is a topic so suited to print as well as an online presence.

From print and magazines we journey into the three-dimensional world of Second Life and have a virtual tour of the City State of New Babbage. guides us through undersea laboratories and cobbled streets over which airships dominate the sky.

Returning to the real world, the History of Science Museum in Oxford opens it's . Imaginative works of art blend seamlessly with the museum's outstanding collection of scientific instruments. is the curator and one of the artists who creates objects of mysterious origin.

Also on show at the exhibition is the fanciful clock work of . Intricately designed and entirely hand made time pieces tick softly on the walls of the museum. Though his style fits nicely with the Steampunk ethic, he explains how his work has been adopted by the genre.

Steampunk illustration by Fabiola Garza for Steampunk Magazine and Sydney Padua creator of 2Dgoggles.com

That's the summary of our journey between the eras. We're back to the present day next week with more adventures online.

Jamillah