Flutterby™! : So dieselpunk is writing about 80100

Next unread comment / Catchup all unread comments User Account Info | Logout | XML/Pilot/etc versions | Long version (with comments) | Weblog archives | Site Map | | Browse Topics

So dieselpunk is writing about 80100

2023-10-05 06:20:02.796142+02 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

So dieselpunk is writing about 80-100 years ago, we're due for some atompunk...

And what's post-cyber? We're clearly in the dystopia that cyberpunk predicted, so looking forward....

[ related topics: Writing ]

comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: So dieselpunk is writing about 80100 made: 2023-10-05 18:39:14.170424+02 by: meuon

atompunk - I'm thinking Tom Swift, everything was atom powered. But then, so was Asimov's foundation. I'm still seeking out "utopian"sci-fi. It's in the backdrop of Star Trek, I'd like to see more of that.

#Comment Re: So dieselpunk is writing about 80100 made: 2023-10-05 23:39:51.599653+02 by: Dan Lyke

Yeah, "solarpunk" came up shortly after that, which I know has had a run, and I think needs to come back as we (hopefully) ramp up ways to lower our ecological impact, and Tara Calishain suggested "infopunk" as something appropriate to our age.

I'm kinda wondering about "infopunk" as an exploration of information in the age of LLM and machine generated images, where the truth is even more subversive than it has been....

#Comment Re: So dieselpunk is writing about 80100 made: 2023-10-06 16:03:32.032361+02 by: meuon

'infopunk' - might be current world, right now.

#Comment Re: So dieselpunk is writing about 80100 made: 2023-10-10 03:08:23.986578+02 by: TheSHAD0W

You do know that nuclear reactors are actually steampunk, right? :-D

Add your own comment:

(If anyone ever actually uses Webmention/indie-action to post here, please email me)




Format with:

(You should probably use "Text" mode: URLs will be mostly recognized and linked, _underscore quoted_ text is looked up in a glossary, _underscore quoted_ (http://xyz.pdq) becomes a link, without the link in the parenthesis it becomes a <cite> tag. All <cite>ed text will point to the Flutterby knowledge base. Two enters (ie: a blank line) gets you a new paragraph, special treatment for paragraphs that are manually indented or start with "#" (as in "#include" or "#!/usr/bin/perl"), "/* " or ">" (as in a quoted message) or look like lists, or within a paragraph you can use a number of HTML tags:

p, img, br, hr, a, sub, sup, tt, i, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, cite, em, strong, code, samp, kbd, pre, blockquote, address, ol, dl, ul, dt, dd, li, dir, menu, table, tr, td, th

Comment policy

We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.

Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by

Dan Lyke
for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.