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I noticed this too. I wonder if there is something makes steam punk a likely vehicle for optimism? If there is it certainly escapes me.
Whereas my story probably had the least amount of optimism of them all! What was I thinking??
But I think that the steampunk-esque references are more a case of adhering to genre rather than theme. I must admit to have some confusion as to whether stories qualified as retrofuturism.
As for my vote, mosaix wrote a beautifully imaginative tale that weaved pictures in my brain. Runners up were Victoria for a conversation that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at, and Starbeast for wonderful little story.