Guest Post: Introducing SDI-PUNK, Or The Once And Future 1980s
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It's morning in America, it's high noon in the Cold War, and America is on the HIGH-WA-AY TO . . . THE DAN-GER ZONE! (Admit it, dear reader: you sang that last bit along with me.) SDI-Punk is yet another form of retrofuturism, just as Steampunk reflects the Victorian vision of the future with its airships and steam-powered hardware, Dieselpunk represents a weird World War II, and Atompunk gives us the future as seen from a time when we really did vaporize entire islands as physics experiments.
Guest Post: Introducing SDI-PUNK, Or The Once And Future 1980s
Guest Post: Introducing SDI-PUNK, Or The Once…
Guest Post: Introducing SDI-PUNK, Or The Once And Future 1980s
It's morning in America, it's high noon in the Cold War, and America is on the HIGH-WA-AY TO . . . THE DAN-GER ZONE! (Admit it, dear reader: you sang that last bit along with me.) SDI-Punk is yet another form of retrofuturism, just as Steampunk reflects the Victorian vision of the future with its airships and steam-powered hardware, Dieselpunk represents a weird World War II, and Atompunk gives us the future as seen from a time when we really did vaporize entire islands as physics experiments.