Actually, that sounds more like Golempunk...in any event, mud brick was more of a Mesopotamian thing.
Bruce
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Actually, that sounds more like Golempunk...in any event, mud brick was more of a Mesopotamian thing.
Bruce
Also feauturing
: low-level superbeings (have you seen some of the crap Jaws pulls?)
: mad inventors by the boatload
: Evil secret organizations (is James working for one of them? Being manipulated or mind-controlled?)
:continuing cold war
:and more doomsday weapons than you can shake a stick at
Bruce
Eirepunk. Hard-drinking, hard-fighting and hard-talking red-headed pale men dominate the European continent with a benevolent but stern dictatorship propped up by beer and potato harvests. Consistently win wars against the 'Albionites' (a thinly-disguised British analogue) and the 'Separatists' (a cobbled-together 'plague on both your houses' IRA/UVF sectarian faction) by reducing the other side to tears with powerful, emotive folk singing.
I can see Alan Moore writing this one for a bet.
I can see Alan Moore writing this one for a bet.
NothingNow
Banned
Florida-punk: Cattle, Citrus, Oil and Salt. The Key Sources of wealth should someone look to make it big in Florida, a land where that little Six shooter you carry on your belt, or the Shotgun slung over your shoulder's only as useful as you are Lucky. A hardscabble land where if the Gators, Panthers, Locals and Cattle don't kill you, the Yellow-fever probably will. Eitherway, you'll die unmourned, and probably out in the Swamps. All this is assuming some well Forgotten God doesn't decide to use you as a new Meat-Puppet, and become Un-Forgotten, anyway.
Now what are you going to do about it?
Seriously, It's the Old Cracker Westerns, with -Punk Sensibilities, and Eldritch Abominations, all topped off by Genuine Florida Weirdness and Lethality.
EDIT: Think Deadlands without Ghost Rock and the CSA, but with more Desperation, Ruthlessness and Tropical Diseases. Set in the Swamps, Bayous and Scrub.
Now what are you going to do about it?
Seriously, It's the Old Cracker Westerns, with -Punk Sensibilities, and Eldritch Abominations, all topped off by Genuine Florida Weirdness and Lethality.
EDIT: Think Deadlands without Ghost Rock and the CSA, but with more Desperation, Ruthlessness and Tropical Diseases. Set in the Swamps, Bayous and Scrub.
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Actually, that sounds more like 90 % of fantasy works written by authors of Irish American descent.
Nothin' like some good old Irish ethnic and political stereotypes to spice up things...
Gah, it hurts, it hurts ! Must... resist... desperate urge... to claw my own eyes out...
But a good -punk idea anyway, even though it does bare resemblance to golempunk.
Another new suggestion (one of my more serious ones, but be warned about a minor incoming rant/critique/whatever) :
Nanopunk
Basically, nanotechnology in friggin' anything and everything. (Well, that was easy...)
Examples of specific works, you ask ?
Well, every purportedly "hard", "genre-revolutionizing" or just plain "hip" sci-fi novel of the last 20 years (particularly if it is written by a middle aged posthuman-worshipping British author).
No offence, but I've become allergic to nanotech as I've become allergic to any standard sci-fi plot device technobabblion bulshitium over the years. Essentially, nanotech has been beaten to death to the point where, what was once pretty original, is now clichéd and trite insta-magic masquerading as plausible high tech. Not to mention "nano" being ridiculously synonymous with "sapient self-replicating microscopic robot grey goo crap".
The 40's and 50's had endless atomic-thingy-solves-all-wanks. The 90's and our decade have nanobabble-thingy-solves-all-wanks. So sad...
Nanopunk
Basically, nanotechnology in friggin' anything and everything. (Well, that was easy...)
Examples of specific works, you ask ?
Well, every purportedly "hard", "genre-revolutionizing" or just plain "hip" sci-fi novel of the last 20 years (particularly if it is written by a middle aged posthuman-worshipping British author).
No offence, but I've become allergic to nanotech as I've become allergic to any standard sci-fi plot device technobabblion bulshitium over the years. Essentially, nanotech has been beaten to death to the point where, what was once pretty original, is now clichéd and trite insta-magic masquerading as plausible high tech. Not to mention "nano" being ridiculously synonymous with "sapient self-replicating microscopic robot grey goo crap".
The 40's and 50's had endless atomic-thingy-solves-all-wanks. The 90's and our decade have nanobabble-thingy-solves-all-wanks. So sad...
Noir-punk
Every film-noir cliché and trope that you can shake your two fisted tales book at... Surprisingly common and arguably already an existing -punk of sorts. Seen especially in various neo-noir movies, animated series, games, comic books, etc. Batman, the Thief games, Discworld Noir, Max Payne, the Bourne films, Sin City, bits of Sky Captain, to name a few... Also, this old dream of mine fits in pretty well.
Every film-noir cliché and trope that you can shake your two fisted tales book at... Surprisingly common and arguably already an existing -punk of sorts. Seen especially in various neo-noir movies, animated series, games, comic books, etc. Batman, the Thief games, Discworld Noir, Max Payne, the Bourne films, Sin City, bits of Sky Captain, to name a few... Also, this old dream of mine fits in pretty well.
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I'm not sure where the Inuit Shamans with shotguns fit in....
Noir-Punk certainly fulfills the "punk" part of it...Noir settings almost inevitably feature Teh Gritty, corrupt government and/or policemen, etc.
Bruce
I'm not sure where the Inuit Shamans with shotguns fit in....
Noir-Punk certainly fulfills the "punk" part of it...Noir settings almost inevitably feature Teh Gritty, corrupt government and/or policemen, etc.
Bruce
Well I never said my dreams lacked totally crazy elements.
Sorry for not adding a disclaimer.
One more and I'm calling it a day :
Weimarpunk
Inter-war Germany, with all the good and bad associated with it. Expressionist art, literature and cinema, absurd inflation and bartering citizens, German jazz and wacky revolutions or political unrest every month or two...
EDIT :
Alternatively...
Weimarpunk
A punk based on or related to the works of classic German writers and playwrites, such as Goethe and Schiller.
Weimarpunk
Inter-war Germany, with all the good and bad associated with it. Expressionist art, literature and cinema, absurd inflation and bartering citizens, German jazz and wacky revolutions or political unrest every month or two...
EDIT :
Alternatively...
Weimarpunk
A punk based on or related to the works of classic German writers and playwrites, such as Goethe and Schiller.
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A small supplement to this older post of mine :
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Myths/Nanotech.html
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Calvinpunk: Following the Huguenot victory in the French Wars of Religion, the world is dominated by the highest and mustiest breed of Reformed Christianity. As it was predestined to be, of course. Schoolyard brawls break out over Infralapsariansm vs. Supralapsarianism. The Guardians of the Republic in black Geneva gowns and preaching bands are everywhere, admonishing sinners and burning the occasional Reprobate at the stake.
Freudpunk: Psychology is king. Long-range hypnosis is used on the battlefield. Jobs are awarded based on content of candidate's dreams. People deemed to have overactive Ids are locked away. Everyone speaks very slowly and carefully for fear of "slipping" and revealing their bestial desires.
Calvinpunk: Following the Huguenot victory in the French Wars of Religion, the world is dominated by the highest and mustiest breed of Reformed Christianity. As it was predestined to be, of course. Schoolyard brawls break out over Infralapsariansm vs. Supralapsarianism. The Guardians of the Republic in black Geneva gowns and preaching bands are everywhere, admonishing sinners and burning the occasional Reprobate at the stake.
Freudpunk: Psychology is king. Long-range hypnosis is used on the battlefield. Jobs are awarded based on content of candidate's dreams. People deemed to have overactive Ids are locked away. Everyone speaks very slowly and carefully for fear of "slipping" and revealing their bestial desires.
Frankenpunk--
The Good Doctor's invention was successful, and the results became well known. Stitched-together and reanimated corpses are used in battle and as servants, but are fighting for civil rights. Given a decent upbringing they aren't typically maladjusted. But people tend to be squeamish about making people, and the main focus of frankenpunk is non-sentient constructed custom animals. Biology mostly supplants the up-coming steam technology, especially for transport, food production, etc. Electric eel-based contraptions generate electricity! Elephantoid constructions power trains! Semi-horseless carriages! On the ocean, it's the Age of Whale! And some kind of zeppelins!
The Good Doctor's invention was successful, and the results became well known. Stitched-together and reanimated corpses are used in battle and as servants, but are fighting for civil rights. Given a decent upbringing they aren't typically maladjusted. But people tend to be squeamish about making people, and the main focus of frankenpunk is non-sentient constructed custom animals. Biology mostly supplants the up-coming steam technology, especially for transport, food production, etc. Electric eel-based contraptions generate electricity! Elephantoid constructions power trains! Semi-horseless carriages! On the ocean, it's the Age of Whale! And some kind of zeppelins!
Sachyriel
Banned
Tantrum-punk: Children are harnessed for energy with little suits that take the kinetic energy of all the flailing and screaming and kicking and smashing and put it into a small battery pack in the suit; with enough antagonism a child screaming for 2-3 hours about their broken toy can give a charge to watch television for 1 hour (which certainly shuts them up). It's used in shopping malls for unruly children, on board flights, in zoo, schools, playgrounds and many other things. I mean, most people have evolved past the point of hitting their kids but they don't want to just stand around with a child screaming and biting, so they turned them into batteries. Some people think the Tantrum-harvesters are child abuse, but if you tell them what real child abuse is they start screaming and kicking....
Dali & Co. - Punk
Early 20th century crazy artist movements dominate till today (and everything, from politcs, over sacral art to the design of cars and hamburgers).
Dali, Gaudi, Chagal, Surrealism, Art Noveau, German Impressionism & Expressionism (Corinth, Dix, Ernst,..), Bauhaus, Early Soviet Avantgarde, Futurism, Fin de Siecle, James Joyce...
Early 20th century crazy artist movements dominate till today (and everything, from politcs, over sacral art to the design of cars and hamburgers).
Dali, Gaudi, Chagal, Surrealism, Art Noveau, German Impressionism & Expressionism (Corinth, Dix, Ernst,..), Bauhaus, Early Soviet Avantgarde, Futurism, Fin de Siecle, James Joyce...
"Edwardian-Punk" (or alternatively, post-Steampunk): A world ruled for the most part by European Empires and full of men with big moustaches, ladies in big hats, magnificent men in their flying machines bomb throwing anarchists and rowdy suffragettes. Where the oceans are patrolled by giant dreadnaught battleships and full of massive ocean liners and the skys are dotted with zeppelins and rudimentary aircraft. Technology includes early wirelesses, early automobiles lots of electricity and the world almost always seams to be bought to the brink of war because of some dammed thing in the Balkans. Oh yeah, and Teddy Roosevelt is an immortal giant
Guacamole-punk: A world where Mexico became one of the most advanced nations in the world when a scientist in Mexico City managed to create efficient machineries with the Guacamole sauce as a power source. Soon, Guacamole-powered technology spread throughout the world and Mexican hegemony in the Americas was assured. Alas, all the other nations started to catch on with the Guacamole-powered machinery spread around the world. There's also the food vs fuel debate on the use of the Guacamole sauce.