Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written From: Charlie Stross Subject: Re: VelcoVocabulary and New Genres References: <9vqr06$qnm$1@panix3.panix.com> <9vu7r5$f8m$1@underhill.hhhh.org> Organization: foobar quux Reply-To: charlie@antipope.org Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 20:07:05 +0000 X-Trace: 66707264bf766f00e3392c033650e740a33e6e00d7981384522074b03c263b4b NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 20:15:07 GMT Lines: 25 Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spittle in awe as declared: > Other portmanteau-genres: > > Cyberfantasy Dieselpunk. Dieselpunk is set in an alternate version of the 1930's, where the Hindenburg's skin wasn't doped with rocket fuel, Wall Street didn't crash, Adolf Hitler is a gangster who runs a seedy night club in Hamburg, and Joe Dzugashvilli is a defrocked priest turned bank robber in the Kingdom of Ukraine. The protagonist is probably a British WW1 army officer with a nervous tic and some horrible memories, who is in search of a secret atomic or computational technology developed in Hungary that threatens to rock the chancelleries of Europe and possibly unleash the hideous prospect of World Anarchist Terror. -- Charlie