Boilerplate’s creator Paul Guinan sees the soon to be released BP coffee-table book as history–with one fictional element, a robot. Technically this makes it science-fiction. However, Paul doesn’t necessarily think of it as steampunk, because of the lack of goggles, gears, airships, and other such tropes.
Film In Focus not only nails Boilerplate as steampunk, but as a modern “Edisonade.” Interestingly the article describes Boilerplate as “innocent,” despite such subject matter as mechanized warfare, imperialism, racism, women’s suffrage, and child labor.

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