Dieselpunk + Steampunk Culture
Atompunk
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Permalink Reply by Komissar Hass on -
Well, first of all "atompunk" itself must be defined more clearly, as the world seen in Fallout series is absolutely different from ours even before the nukes go off.
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Permalink Reply by Bryan D. Amage on -
I tend to agree with Kommisar Hass: at this stage the definition for 'atomic-punk' is (yet) a bit blurry.
But, to be honest; there are also some differentiations in the view of what is 'dieselpunk'.
It seems that the most of us place dieselpunk in the early twenties to thirties.. with mainly two 'flavors'; Ottensian and Piecraftian. Aside from both labels; it's quite impossible to keep a timeline on alternate histrory ;)
in my personal opinion the Dieselpunk- era should start about 1915: the year that a diesel engine was first placed in a truck..
For Atomic-punk i'd say that the earliest date would be 1943; the year that the manhattan project started.. or maybe two years later when the first nukes where dropped on Japan.
I know, it's all a bit arbitrary, but these are just my two cents..
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Permalink Reply by Lawren H.B. on -
I consider ''Atomicpunk'' to be the genre of the pre-digital cold war. So into the 70's or 80's~ish.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Koch on -
I consider August 29,1949 the start of atomic punk. That was the date that the Soviet Union dropped their first atomic weapon. Before that it was just the United States with atomic weapons. If one of the main ideas behind atomic punk paranoia it makes more sense because somebody else has atomic weaponry increasing the chance that they will be used .
The ending day I am not sure of yet. But
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Permalink Reply by Cap'n Tony on -
Last year I would have said Atompunk ended with the fall of the USSR, but with North Korea entering the "club" and Iran's burgeoning nuclear program we may be looking at a new and yucky "flavor" on the menu.
Scott Koch said:I consider August 29,1949 the start of atomic punk. That was the date that the Soviet Union dropped their first atomic weapon. Before that it was just the United States with atomic weapons. If one of the main ideas behind atomic punk paranoia it makes more sense because somebody else has atomic weaponry increasing the chance that they will be used .
The ending day I am not sure of yet. But
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