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Fionalein

Cyberpunk - like true Victorian SCiFi (not to be confused with Steampunk) - was a real SciFi genre wheres the others are about fantasy "what if" aesthetics...

Sorry but I find the comparison lacking. What Keano now does is no Cyberpunk anymore - it is '80s retro-SciFi'. Science has moved on and clinging to old expectations of technological advancements will not get the visions back. It is a fantasy aesthetics thing now.

Phil

These may seem obvious in retrospect:
Literature: Verne and Wells
TV: Robert Conrad's The Wild Wild West

Gatito

It could be argued that the only difference between sci-fi and fantasy are aesthetical. At least that is what is written at the beggining of the book «How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy» by Orson Scott Card.
Also, Cyberpunk is all about a hard and unforgiving world controlled by big corporations, with protagonists that are only not owned by those big corporations because they are too much at the bottom to matter. It is understood there are wonderful inventions but the story doesn`t show them, because it follows people at the edges of society where those wonders are just out of reach. Most definitely not a Victorian viewpoint.

Rob

Dieselpunk era starts in WW1 1910s era through the 1950's. Not WW2 as the image shows.

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