Transistorpunk

[Recycled from 14 August 2004]

Awhile back, I encountered the term "dieselpunk", which the coiner defined as fantasy based upon the new technology and cultural obsessions of the period between the world wars.

It made perfect sense to me -- cyberpunk romanticized and exaggerated the hot new technologies of the 1980s. Steampunk is fantasy inspired by the Victorian era's new powers of steam and electricity. And so on.

So: transistorpunk, a style of writing inspired by the hot young technologies of the 1960s. James Bond is a transistorpunk icon.

Transistorpunk. Ask for it by name.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transistorpunk

//The Magic 8-Ball says, "I'm a product of the 1960s, you know."\\