Alternate -Punk Genres

Delta Force

Banned
Spunknik!


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Satellites, space probes, and other robotic means of space exploration see far more funding. The Interplanetary Grand Tour is launched in the 1970s, there are sample return missions from Mars, etc. Perhaps robotic spacecraft are even used instead of astronauts for the Moon landing.
 
Super-Psycho-Punk

Imagine the improbable world wherein supermarket tabloid psychics were correct in their visions of the future. This includes bizarre revelations, assassination attempts, the world being brought to thermonuclear war, et al.

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Driftless

Donor
Musket Punk

ACW and Franco-Prussian War linked with every other conflict within those years into a global conflict.

I think you could make the case for Thirty Years war through the Franco-Prussian war era.

D'Artagnan, Cyrano, or Hawkeye as your fictional prototypes.
 
Disaster-Punk​

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Whether its 2012, San Andreas, Earthquake, we all love a good series of disasters on film. It also helps that every self-proclaimed psychic from Nostradamus to Jeanne Dixon loves to predict something as weird as California "falling into the sea", the magnetic poles shifting, or the axis of the planet going off by c. 23 degrees...

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Faxpunk!

Future built around an eternal British 1980s: fictions obsessed with the rise of yuppies and big corporations, the growth of computers in every home and the electronic connection of Earth, an undying Conservative government and a violently angry militant left, the power of another nations outdoing us and, in Asia's case, threatening our understanding of the world's order...

Basically, a genre that's actually about now but with 1980s cultural and fashion trappings.

Until it becomes codified and fluffed into "BOY WASN'T THE EIGHTIES GREAT" and a few young Tory wags start writing revisionist faxpunks.
 
I think you could make the case for Thirty Years war through the Franco-Prussian war era.

D'Artagnan, Cyrano, or Hawkeye as your fictional prototypes.

probably anything from the pre-rifling era, really (i know rifling has been around since the 16th century, but it didn't become common until the 19th)
 
ZEPPLINPUNK

Imagine a world where the Hindenburg disaster never happened, and airships rule the skies...

i'd say this is already covered under "skypunk", but that's just me

here's what i've got listed, excluding ones first mentioned in this thread:
  • desertpunk (indeterminate time period)
  • oceanpunk (indeterminate time period, or 1700s onward; examples are The Ocean Hunter, Waterworld, and Assassin's Creed IV)
  • skypunk (indeterminate time period, or 20th century onward; examples are BioShock Infinite, Castle in teh Sky, and Skyward Sword)
  • stonepunk (Stone Age; examples are 10,000 BC, Clan of the Cave Bear, and The Flintstones)
  • biblepunk (c.4000 BC - c.30 AD, explicitly fantasy; an example is Noah)
  • sandalpunk (Bronze or Iron Age; examples are 300, The Scorpion King, and the Fires of Pompeii episode of Doctor Who)
  • dungeonpunk (600s - 1600s, explicitly fantasy)
  • mythpunk (800s BC - 500s AD, explicitly fantasy; an example is Clash of the Titans)
  • castlepunk (800s - 1500s)
  • clockpunk (1450s - 1630s; examples include Assassin's Creed II, Phantom of the Opera, The Nightingale, and Leonardo da Vinci in general)
  • dreampunk (1800s onwards--i'm actually not too clear on what constitutes dreampunk, myself)
  • steampunk (1850s - 1900s; examples are Gotham by Gaslight, Van Helsing, and the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne)
  • cattlepunk (1850s onwards; examples are Red Dead Redemption and Wild Wild West)
  • dieselpunk (1920s - 1940s; examples are the Origins level of Call of Duty Zombies and War of the Worlds: Goliath)
  • decopunk (1920s - 1950s; an example is Batman in general)
  • atompunk (1945 - 1965; examples are Astro Boy, BioShock, and Fallout)
  • raygun gothic (1945 - 1865; examples are Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, The Jetsons, and Space Dandy--you could probably credibly call this one "spacepunk")
  • discopunk (1970s--this one was possibly jokingly referenced in the thread about recessionpunk that i mentioned at the beginning, with a suggested example being Daft Punk)
  • cyberpunk and cyberprep (1980s; examples are Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell--to clarify, cyberpunk emphasizes harsh and gritty aspects while cyberprep is basically the counter to this where everything is cleaner and proper, maybe even idealistic: if cyberpunk is...well, a street punk, then cyberprep is someone who went to...well, prep school :p)
  • splatterpunk (1980s--tbph, i have no idea what splatterpunk is supposed to be. maybe it's the -punk version of slasher flicks?)
  • biopunk (1990s onwards; examples are Jurassic Park and The Island of Doctor Moreau)
  • gothicpunk (contemporary, explicitly fantasy)
  • nowpunk (contemporary--this is probably best considered as a -punk genre of whatever is realistically taking place at the time a given work is made and later redefined in a more specific -punk genre)
  • post-cyberpunk (future; an example is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex--while GitS was always set in teh future, post-cyberpunk is supposed to be the future of a cyberpunk setting where things are still cynical and gritty, but it's getting less oppressive, cleaner, and all-around better for everyone even if there are still problems: the evil megacorp has been defeated, but now the characters are dealing with the fallout from that in whatever form it appears)
  • nanopunk (future; an example is late-game Empire Earth, which has its very last epoch as the Nano Age--eventually, this will probably be considered a contemporary or historical -punk genre similar to what we'd currently call nowpunk)
  • apunkalypse (post-apocalyptic; an example is Mad Max)
 
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