Steampunk is technically the period from Victorian England to the first world war, but done in a science fiction way. A past that never was.
After WWI? It’s all dieselpunk, baby.
Dieselpunk is technically the period from 1920 until the end of WWII. You know, a retro future past.
Most of this blog is indeed about Dieselpunk era affairs, and most of the Steampunk Opera is Dieselpunk oriented: darker, more urban and industrial aesthetics.
Steampunk is hopeful and fun, Diesepunk has a tendency to be more intense, and either more twisted and psychologically murky, or contrarily, borrowing heavily from a pulp era aesthetic, art deco, WWII, 1940s era bombasticness.
So Dieselpunk works can be stuff like Dark City for the dark,
or Sky Captain of Tomorrow for the light.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein, the amazing movies Delicatessen or City of Lost Children.
Eraserhead? Dieselpunk.
Bioshock? Dieselpunk.
But wait! There’s more!
Not only is there Dieselpunk, there’s now Atomicpunk!
Atompunk is a 1945 to 1965 era take on the future. Atomic era, space race type stuff.
Many times a future gone post apocalyptic. Nuclear war and red scare taken to extremes. The Fallout video game series is exactly what we’re talking about here.
Art deco design factors in to Atompunk’s aesthetics. All that “house of the future” type stuff.
1950s era science fiction is all atompunk.
A Clockwork Orange: Atompunk.
The Jetsons? Total Atompunk.
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Ray gun kid.
One of the best examples of Atompunk is the Fallout series of games with it’s late 50s to early 60s aesthetic
Philip K. Dick was a good example of Atom Punk writer in his early years, in the late 50’s, but then his work had a transmutation towards a more paranoid/religious/stoned fiction, in the late 60’s. Well, I don’t know about you guys, that is perfect literature for me.
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so its steampunk-dieselpunk-atomicpunk-and then became synthpunk and sorth of a mystic cyber reality thing that end on cyberpunk to these days right
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I recently discovered two interesting films from the same director (Andrew Niccol) that very much fit the Atompunk category: Gattaca and In Time. While both are set in a “mid-century modern” type of future.
I’ve seen Gattaca but i don’t think i ever heard of In Time. One of these days i’m going to get around to trying to see what kind of Atompunk movies are out there. Technically every single 1950s sci fi movie is Atompunk. I wonder… if The Rocky Horror Picture Show could be considered Atompunk…
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diselpunk…everyday is a classroom
Gernsbach Continuum by William Gibson…