dieselpunk

English

Etymology

Dieselpunk art depicting a fantastic flying ship.

From diesel +‎ -punk.

Noun

dieselpunk (uncountable)

1. 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).

   Hyponyms: atompunk (influenced by the Atomic Age beginning in the mid-1940s), decopunk (influenced by the Art Deco movement of the 1920s-1930s)

   Coordinate term: steampunk

   • 2002 November 20, Charlie Stross, “Re: What "steampunk" genre?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

     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 ...

   • 2007, Sean Demory, quoted in Brian McTavish, "Kansas City writer, artist publish digital comic book for cell phones", in The Kansas City Star, 2007 July 25, page F3:

     […] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]

   • 2010 March 19, Teresa Lott, “Re: I hate steampunk...”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎^[1] (Usenet):

     BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.

See also

• dieselpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia