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  • steampunk
    • Victorian era + modern technologies
    • steam powered technologies in use
  • cyberpunk
    • dystopian, high technology
    • biopunk
      • near-future, unintended consequences
      • totalitarian or megacorporations, using biotechnologies for social control
      • genetic manipulation in humans
    • nanopunk
      • biotechnology limited, nanotechnology widely in use
  • dieselpunk
    • WWI-WWII
    • noir, wartime, art deco, petroleum-based technologies
    • teslapunk
      • futuristic electrical technologies in the Industrial Age
    • transistorpunk
      • glamorized Cold War society
      • ideas/fads of 1960's prominent, countercultural movement moves to government advancement
      • weed/hemp technologies; 'Psychedelipunk' and 'Weedpunk'
    • decopunk
      • art deco + streamline moderne (curves, horizontal forms, almost nautical)
    • atompunk
      • 1945-1965
      • Modernism, Space Age, Atomic Age, Communism - themes
      • WWII -> Cold War, but the Cold War never really died out
  • stonepunk
    • Prehistoric, Stone Age; technologies of stone
  • bronzepunk
    • during the bronze age, technologies of the era (and steam-based technologies)
    • examples: gladiators, Alexander the Great, Peloponnesian War
  • ironpunk
    • during the Iron age with respective technologies
    • sandlepunk
      • Roman/Greek-inspired
      • scientific advancements at the time
  • candlepunk
    • late medieval civilization with futuristic technologies
    • plaguepunk
      • late middle ages, plague/blackdeath around
  • clockpunk
    • Renaissance-era science/technology; Da Vinci-inspired, lots of clockwork devices and technologies
  • nowpunk
    • happening now; examples of 9/11
  • splatterpunk
    • horror fiction-inspired
    • gore, violence, graphics
  • elfpunk
    • urban fantasy; elves/fairies now in modern/urban settings
  • mythpunk
    • folklore/myth combined with postmodern technologies
  • piratepunk
  • vikingpunk
  • crusadepunk
  • tikipunk
    • 1950's; Polynesian Pop, Polynesian centered, kitch, exotica, mai tais, Elvis, Hawaiian
  • cassettepunk
    • optical data tech. wasn't developed, cassettes still widely in use for information processing
  • squidpunk
    • set at sea, relates to anything to the squid; always serious and edgy (not so much whimsy)
    • hard punk aesthetic, fluid propulsion system common to squid
  • spacepunk
    • older/ancient civilization with advanced space age technology - sword and space
    • modern society with the capabilities of getting to space
  • mannerpunk
    • elaborate social hierarchies and complex traditions. set in a fantasy world/setting

SOURCES:

feb 19 2014 ∞
nov 7 2014 +