So Ya Like Steampunk, Do Ya?

[StormKnight (1)]

Race week with the mazda crew always means the I can make a chest plate out of their apex seals...something about horrible abuse of an engine on the track...

Well hey there is an idea...make an outfit from all the crap you find in the junk pile after race week...you would have an original look and the smell of burned tires hugging your body...

Would that make us Autopunks? Kind of a sub-species of Autobots?

[Saint Germain]

and the Ro80 was epic fail

indeed

[bav]

Nah, I know what you're getting at.

If I gotta be honest I'd say Fantastic Victoriana and pulp-style would be much more apt terms. The "punk" suffix is surperfluous and (in my view, anyway) there to just make the genre sound "cooler". Even now you also have the terms clockpunk and candlepunk.

When it comes down to it it's all fantastic and speculative fiction, yes?

I blame William Gibson and Bruce Sterling for the ****-punk suffixing of things. I'll agree with ya in it being fantastic speculative fiction, regardless of what word you want to fill in the blanks with.

[Nightgaunt]

I blame William Gibson and Bruce Sterling for the ****-punk suffixing of things. I'll agree with ya in it being fantastic speculative fiction, regardless of what word you want to fill in the blanks with.

The "-punk" suffix used to rub me the wrong way, but now I find it a convenient way to get the concept across. It's easier to say "steampunk" than "a concept in which our current culture and technology are mapped onto, or blended with, the Victorian Era."

[bav]

The "-punk" suffix used to rub me the wrong way, but now I find it a convenient way to get the concept across. It's easier to say "steampunk" than "a concept in which our current culture and technology are mapped onto, or blended with, the Victorian Era."

With early cyberpunk fiction, I can understand adding in the -punk suffix - the general story model was a rebellious hacker who was going up against the corporate oligarchy/dystopian governments/the Man in general...throw in that the early stuff was published in the early-mid 80s, when punk was still pretty relevant as a call for social change and it makes sense. Since then, the derivative styles of speculative fiction that has spawned from cyberpunk seem to take the suffix as a means of portraying the mash-up of different eras/technology.

Just some more random thoughts from my post-NyQuil fogged mind.

[Rev.Reverence]

I come up with a design...I'm altering a leisure suit (brown) we'll callz it "Steampimp"

(edit for: broke ass code)

Edited August 20, 2009 by Rev.Reverence

[Oh_My_Goth]

I come up with a design...I'm altering a leisure suit (brown) we'll callz it "Steampimp"

(edit for: broke ass code)

Awesome...

[Saint Germain]

[kat (1)]

This is great! Thanks for posting this link, Joey.

[DJ Nocker]

This is great! Thanks for posting this link, Joey.

I like both the sub genres and have been working on a outfit for a little bit (got a awesome aviator hat, goggles...just need a good jacket and shirt, maybe a different pair of boots...im also working on a ray gun). Glad a few people dig steam/diesel punk.

[Musashi]

Ha! Awesome! I love this stuff! It works for sci-fi, action, or horror so well. And it never gets old! Great link!

[Joey Deadcat]

And then there's Edisonade...