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Published: 2013-01-11 11:19:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 5420; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 12
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I'm a fan of retro-science fiction, but I've noticed a lot of people seemingly call all kinds of science fiction settings steampunk even when they aren't.So I've decided to be helpful/obnoxious and explain the differences between the different forms of Retropunk!
To start, Stonepunk! A setting which can be either the distant past or the distant future, depending upon whether you want to be anachronistic or merely cliched regarding the predictable twist at the end of your story. IE "It's not the past, it was a post-WW3 world the whole time!
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Its a shame that people dont seem to like it very much, as a fan of prehistory and dinosaurs, I would LOVE to make a stonepunk story, it could be really cool IMO.
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I see you forgot Biopunk. Will you make it?
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May do, I've been busy with work of late, but I have got some stuff in the works.
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Ah, pure underappreciated stonepunk. The retropunk genre that requires the greatest suspension of disbelief and/orΒ the greatest amount of engineering knowledge on part of the writer in order to do anything as epic in scope as the others.
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It's possible to due stonepunk in a serious way, rare, but it can be done. Titan technology from Warcraft is a good example.
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I love almost all kinds of retropunk, but this is the one that interests me the least. I just cannotΒ get excited about stone technology or stone-age culture. When I first read about it on Wikipedia I was like, "Really?" *eyeroll*
I've yet to ever meet someone who's a fan or find any pages or sites dedicated to it. It's just apparently a thing.
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apparently it's more popular to be something like post-WW3 stonepunk with say, ruins and remnants of old technology about (shitzo tech to use tvtropes speak) which is part of the story. But that isn't 'real' stonepunk apparently.
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I've never liked the "Post World War 3 stone punk" cliche
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