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A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with the technology, culture, and aesthetics of the period of history beginning in the interbellum between World War I and World War II and ending around the 1950s (known as the "diesel era" within the dieselpunk community)..
[…] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]
In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...
BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.
Use dieselpunk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dieselpunk means A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with the technology, culture, and aesthetics of the period of history beginning in the interbellum between World War I and World War II and ending around the 1950s (known as the "diesel era" within the dieselpunk community)..
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[…] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]
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