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Check out the new updated version of my article on different forms of punk literature and the amazing sub-genres you can use to influence and inspire your work.
It got bigger. Welcome to Timepunk/PunkPunk 2015!
I tried to make sure each punk had more than one discussion or labeled work online (otherwise the list would expand to include every silly discussion thread on the internet).
Note: none of these have much to do with 1960s-70s Punk music culture, other than some possible overlapping anti-authoritarian themes. These genres are derivatives of steampunk, which arose from cyberpunk.
Note 2: After sorting through dozens of the aforementioned discussion threads, and an informative conversation with @jhameia, I’ve come to think that trying to name and separate steampunk sub-genres out by geography and culture is unnecessary. It’s simpler to say “Chinese steampunk” or “Polish steampunk” or “Muslim steampunk” if you must be specific. Nevertheless, several of these geography-based punks have already acquired their own names. I have put them into their own category.
I can’t help but feel that something important was lost when the urban fantasy genre flipped from the 1980s “crystal psychics and consulting witches” stuff to the modern “sad vampires in the rain” style. I mean, I appreciate a sad vampire as much as the next person, but I can’t deny that I miss the snarky witches.