Word: morlock
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Steampunk has been around for at least 30 years, with roots going back further. An early example is K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night, a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine in which the Morlocks travel back in time to invade 1890s London. Steampunk--Jeter coined the name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine, a novel set in a Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron, who had escaped death in Greece...
...emotional and physical landscape of the future world in a way that the extravagant set does not. Apparently Warner Brothers built a 65-foot tall working waterfall–despite the expense, it’s an entirely forgettable special effect. Jeremy Irons, as the chillingly androgynous Uber-Morlock who runs the dark world of the Morlocks through mind control, has the one memorable monologue in the movie. Hartdegan has traveled to the creepy center of the Morlock world to look for the captured Mara, who is being kept by Uber as an eventual breeding vessel for the Morlock race...
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