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Post by account_disabled on Dec 6, 2023 23:46:12 GMT -5
Both settings are right, if you think about it. What is the problem of defining a historical context? The same as the other subgenres, that of having a well-defined scenography available and also a sort of fashion: in short, an iconography to keep in mind for dustpunk stories. There is quite a bit of confusion about this online. Dustpunk novels are considered: Fistful of Reefer by David Mark Brown, actually dieselpunk and weird Western pulp; Mr. Shivers by Jackson Bennett, horror, dark fantasy and thriller; Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith, combines fantasy and science fiction. Dustpunk: a steampunk without steam? Many have Phone Number Datacondemned steampunk as a genre that focuses too much on aesthetics and very little on substance. Dustpunk could instead be a valid answer, like ecopunk: creating stories that bring out serious and real problems that we might one day collide with. The historical context brings it closer to steampunk: we are in the period of the industrial revolution. But dustpunk may not be tied to the same philosophy and may follow its own, freer track. After all, we are in the field of science fiction: full creative freedom, therefore. Is there a place for dustpunk in your fiction? What do you think of this literary genre? Would it appeal to you as a reader and inspire you as a writer?
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