While the Neo-Victorian genre of steampunk and its techno-fantasy aesthetic, may seem an unlikely arena for social renewal, steampunk offers writers the opportunity to "trouble time" because of the way it uses anachronism, mashes up eras and moments, and resists chronology. That said, while very few writers are using steampunk to write about issues of race, American novelist Cherie Priest, in her steampunk "Clockwork Century" series (2009-2015), which consists of seven books, confronts America's...