Do we really need Justin Bieber to make this story relevant?

They’re steampunks, part of an international movement that’s a mashup of do-it-yourselfers, ahistorical recreationists and science fiction aficionados who are happily reliving a past that never was.

The Victorian era was “a wonderful era when people were still being surprised by the world,” says T.E. MacArthur, author of The Volcano Lady, about the adventures of a “lady geologist” in the 1880s amid aerial clipper ships and submarines.

Justin Bieber, Hollywood drawn to steampunk movement – USATODAY.com.