Meaning of raypunk | Babel Free

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A subgenre of speculative fiction that blends retrofuturistic aesthetics with imaginative, often surreal technology, drawing heavily on the science fiction of the mid-20th century. It typically features ray guns, space exploration, and other fantastical elements inspired by pulp magazines, comics, and films from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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Examples

“This is not a story about science fact. This is fantastic science fiction. The old guard kind, the raypunk kind.”

“Tezuka prodigy Rintaro was the director for this short saga that took Yoshitaka's original designs and rewrote them as a raypunk fantasy.”

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