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dieselpunk

noun

Etymology

From diesel + -punk.

  1. borrowed from Diesel
  2. suffixed as dieselpunk — “diesel + punk”

Definitions

  1. A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with…

    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).

    • 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 ...
    • […] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]
    • BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dieselpunk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA