late 19-th its vsf, but what is...

[Fjodin]

WOW! Great pics! I love the samurai troops!

[Rob_bresnen]

I *have* heard the period described as Edwardian Science fiction (ESF), and also as Werid World War 1 (WWW1),  but personally I'd consider it as Diselpunk. Then again, I don't consider the interwar stuff diselpunk, I consider that to be Pulp.

Not sure about this myself. I am not not really familiar with the termananolgy of 'diselpunk', but I think I get the idea it is trying to express form the pictures etc. It is inherantly down-beat, dark, and dystopic, as all the -punk genres are, while Pulp is nearly always up-beat, optomistic and light (exsept King Kong). Diselpunk and Pulp are two sides of the same coin if you ask me.

[Patron Zero]

Here's my take on Weird WWI, definitely to include huge landship dreadnoughts on the battlefields as well as the most rudimentary of walking armored vehicles, clankers to borrow the term from the novel, Leviathan.

Also a nice sprinkling of 'super-science' weapons such as directed arc-lightning cannons, vortex producing artillery shells (tornado in a can) and of course, the skies filled with all sorts of winged-wingless wonders.

In said setting, fearing an assault by flying monkeys would not be so far from the truth !

[Laflin and Rand]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arrowsmith-Smart-Their-Fine-Uniforms/dp/1401202993/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266922838&sr=1-3

A graphic novel about a fantasy influenced WW1 that I found rather intriguing. Maybe not exactly what you were looking for, but cretainly some damn fine ideas for weirdness on the Western Front (dwarf sappers, vampire batallions, dragon-assisted aerial combat, magic based artillery and a whole alternate history of Europe).

Worth checking out, I enjoyed it.  

There's also Donna Barr's Stinz comics. Particularly, Charger: The War Stories which is set in WWI era Germany which also happens to have a valley peopled by Centaurs. Her site is here;
http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-emergency-website.html

Donna Barr is hilarious. Her favorite weapon is a short magazine Lee-Enfield.303.