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Worship the Image: Woodrow Bell’s New Cyberpunk Novel
(I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for honest feedback) I freely admit that I am not usually a cyberpunk fan. In the past, it all felt dated to me, as if the authors were so enamored with the ’80s and ’90s style that they never updated it. Worship the Image did not have
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Dieselpunk, part 2: Are ya feeling punky, punk?
In the last post, I discussed what makes something a genre or not, relying on the fuzzy set theory of fantasy and applying it to the three main punk genres- cyberpunk, steampunk, and dieselpunk. Today, we’re looking at the two main thematic concepts I see across all of these genres- technology and society, and the
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Dieselpunk, Part 1: What’s in a genre, anyway?
This post has been stewing in my mind for quite some time, especially after seeing a few different Tumblr posts and some YouTube videos that try to tackle the distinction between the ever-growing array of genres labelled as somethingpunk— most frequently, steampunk and dieselpunk. I, of course, write dieselpunk, so that is a conversation that