The novel is set in an atompunk, alternate history.
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Atompunk
//ˈætəmpʌŋk//
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In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.
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Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.
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For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.
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