A Guide to Retropunk - Part Three, and A Guide to Fantasy!

[espanolbot]

The last part in my look at Retropunk, there are a few I've missed (Cyberfunk: 70s themed, Candlepunk: Medieval themed) which I might come back to later, but I tried to keep it to things that I could think of at least three examples for. Cyberfunk being a term created and used entirely by the creators of Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorperated, for example, and I couldn't think of any other examples off the top of my head.

With a break from SF, I think I'll do different versions of Fantasy next...

Comments

[donnblake]

Dark Fantasy is tricky in that it appears to have two separate origins. It was used by horror writers to describe a type of horror focused more on fantastical elements than blood and intestines, and by fantasy writers to describe morally ambiguous or anti-heroic fantasy. So you could define anything from Moorcock to Lovecraft to George R. R. Martin as 'dark fantasy' and plausibly get away with it.

[philippos42]

Of course, Moorcock's Elric stories have all of that.