Dieselpunk

noun

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Noun
  1. 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). uncountable

    "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 ..."

Example

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"The story is set in a dieselpunk environment."

Etymology

From diesel + -punk.

Related phrases

world war ii

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