steampunk: everything is powerd by steam and mechanics
cyberpunk: a sci-fi setting where hackers are heroes
cyberpunk: a sci-fi setting where hackers are heroes
What is Cyberpunk/Steampunk?
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I'd recommend this site for several excellent examples as to what is steampunk. Like you, though, I'd never heard the term cyberpunk before...
I'd recommend this site for several excellent examples as to what is steampunk. Like you, though, I'd never heard the term cyberpunk before...
Ninja'd many times over, but I'm a throw my 2 cents in--
Cyberpunk is a genre of sci-fi using hyper-futuristic imagery in a gritty punk setting. In fashion, it is often categorized by vinyl, funky hair colors, and computer imagery.
Steampunk is a genre of sci-fi using more anachronistic imagery in a gritty punk setting. In fashion, it is categorized by simple colors (brown is popular) leather, victorian influence (corsets, top hats, monocles etc.) old-style steam-powered machine imagery, and aviator goggles. Oh boy... the aviator goggles...
Come to think of it, Cyberpunk has it's own goggles as well... radiation/hazmat goggles.
That's my take on it anyway.
Cyberpunk is a genre of sci-fi using hyper-futuristic imagery in a gritty punk setting. In fashion, it is often categorized by vinyl, funky hair colors, and computer imagery.
Steampunk is a genre of sci-fi using more anachronistic imagery in a gritty punk setting. In fashion, it is categorized by simple colors (brown is popular) leather, victorian influence (corsets, top hats, monocles etc.) old-style steam-powered machine imagery, and aviator goggles. Oh boy... the aviator goggles...
Come to think of it, Cyberpunk has it's own goggles as well... radiation/hazmat goggles.
That's my take on it anyway.
Exactly the words I was going to use, and in that order too. Nothing more I can add to that, really.the Dept of Science said:
Other than get out of my head!
What, and just let you wander around inside my head where you could accidentally stumble across my plans for using cybernetically augmented ferrets to assassinate world leaders? Never!vanthebaron said:
you silly noob, I already tryed that, and it doesn't work, they have no thumbs, and its extreamly messyGrouchy Imp said:
Both envision the effects of fictional technology on society. "Steampunk" tends to imagine if the "new" technology of the Victorian era- mostly steam engines and electricity- could have been used to create some of the tropes of modern science fiction: robots, various kinds of fantastic transportation, death rays, "Frankenstein's Monster"-styled creatures, analog computation, and so on. "Cyberpunk" does something similar, only it mostly deals with the near future and the technology it focues on usually relates to computers, cybernetics, and biological science. The interaction between humanity and computers is often a major theme of cyberpunk, sometimes bringing up questions about what is "real" in a world where "virtual" realities can have powerful effects on what we think of as "the real world".
