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Date: 2013-09-01 03:09 am (UTC)Probably, though that just makes it even more... meta. "Let's pretend that there was a past in which people might have pretended that this was the future." It doesn't make it fantasy, though it does make it a weird sort of hybrid.
I think we differ less in our view on steampunk and more in our view on science fiction, to be honest. What you call science fiction, I think I'd call "hard" science fiction - thought experiments about what might plausibly happen. Most science fiction I see is less that and more stories that are about robots and space ships because robots and space ships are cool. If fantasy is everything that's "if only," then a whole lot of things are fantasy that we don't normally recognise as such. I see the difference more as what sort of thing you are required to pretend makes sense in order to enjoy the story.