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Its aesthetic tends toward Populuxe and Raygun Gothic, which describe a retro-futuristic vision of the world. [40] Most science fiction of the period carried an aesthetic that influenced or inspired later atompunk works.
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American frontier , where steam power remains in mainstream ...
In literature, solarpunk is a subgenre within science fiction, though it may also include elements of other types of speculative fiction such as fantasy and utopian fiction. It is a cyberpunk derivative, contrasted to cyberpunk for its particular extrapolation of technology's impact on society and progress.
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology [1] [2] and postmodern sensibilities. [3]
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech". [1] It features futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. [2]
The first trend, retrofuturism proper, is directly inspired by the imagined future which existed in the minds of writers, artists, and filmmakers in the pre-1960 period who attempted to predict the future, either in serious projections of existing technology (e.g. in magazines like Science and Invention) or in science fiction novels and stories ...
[5] Works combine and recombine: pop culture iconography across eras, formal explorations in the medium of paint, science fiction aesthetics and identity politics [7] [8] in an evolving lexicon that interrogates "the politics of race, activism, and painting itself".
Some of Biggle's science fiction and mystery stories were nominated for the 1962 Hugo for short fiction and also for the Locus Readers awards in 1972, 1973, and 1974. [1] He published two dozen books as well as magazine stories and numerous articles. His last novel was The Chronocide Mission. He was writing almost to the moment of his death.