dieselpunk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
dieselpunk (uncountable)
- A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with the technology, culture, and aesthetics of the period of history beginning in the interbellum between World War I and World War II and ending around the 1950s (known as the "diesel era" within the dieselpunk community).
- 2002 November 20, Charlie Stross, “Re: What "steampunk" genre?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
- In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...
- 2007, Sean Demory, quoted in Brian McTavish, "Kansas City writer, artist publish digital comic book for cell phones", in The Kansas City Star, 2007 July 25, page F3:
- […] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]
Hyponyms[edit]
- atompunk (science fiction genre influenced by the Atomic Age beginning in the mid-1940s)
- decopunk (science fiction genre influenced by the Art Deco movement of the 1920s-1930s)
See also[edit]
- dieselpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia