Meaning of clockpunk | Babel Free

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A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Renaissance.

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“The term [steampunk] is also frequently applied to works set⟳ in original worlds drawing inspiration from nineteenth century culture and technology, and at times is even used to refer⟳ to comparable blends of alternate history and retro-futurism across a much wider historical span (blurring with categories like⟳ Renaissance-era "clockpunk" and interwar "dieselpunk").”

“Then sometime in the early 90's^([sic]) came steampunk. Alright, that's a little goofy, but people understood what it meant. It was the "punk"-like⟳ hacker culture from cyberpunk using Victorian era, steam based technology. […] But authors couldn't stop⟳ there! No, they had to go back further and write⟳ about clockpunk: hackers in Da Vinci's time making things run⟳ on springs and gears and other clockwork.”

“Oddly enough, K. W. Jeter wrote a clockpunk novel in 1987 called Infernal Devices. The story takes place⟳ in London and involves human-fish hybrids and a brilliant clockwork maker whose father had been experimenting with building automata, clockwork humans.”

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