• shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    i think the futuristic aspect will stay still it’s a future of an alternate world - think steampunk, victorian scifi but still scifi. this is atomic age scifi

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 day ago

      They even have a name for it: Atompunk. It’s got all the aesthetics of the mid-century, but with nuclear power.

      I’ve been partial to dieselpunk myself, though. Interwar grittyness really cinches it for me.