Backlash

Is there a Steampunk backlash? So says Design Observer via io9.Myself, I do think one should distinguish between backlash as in: "Michael Phelps is a God!!...Oh, you know what, actually, he's kinda boring..." and a backlash wherein something that has underlying intrinsic value gets copied/cheapened/ruthlessly exploited till it means nothing and then folks exclaim what a load of bollocks. Because to my mind "backlash" should be reserved for the former rather simple scenario, wherein we realize that it was a load of bollocks to begin with, and the latter scenario, wherein that which is lovely has been rendered a load of bollocks by forces larger that the original lovely thing.Then to bring this post full circle—from one anthology edited by my host, to another:Jeff's Steampunk anthology -> Steampunk generally -> Paul DeFilipo, author of, inter alia The Steampunk Trilogy -> the Weird Universe that Paul just emailed me about this AM, totally check it out -> ta-da! Jeff and Anne's other Tachyon anthology The New Weird!(Ah, I love it when a post comes together...)