I’m a major fan of alternate history and science fiction, and one of my favorite genres within those two areas is steampunk. Now, I’m not one of those cosplayers who does the whole top hat-meets-goggles-meets-Victorian waistcoat, and everything is decked out with cogs and gears, but I really enjoy imagining a world where technology – and society – evolved differently.
One of the silliest – and therefore one of my favorites – premises for alt-history narratives, however, is the notion that if the Hindenburg hadn’t blown up, airships and dirigibles might have become the primary form of transportation in the world.