raypunk

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noun

A subgenre of speculative fiction that blends retrofuturistic aesthetics with imaginative, often surreal technology, drawing heavily on the science fiction of the mid-20th century. It typically features ray guns, space exploration, and other fantastical elements inspired by pulp magazines, comics, and films from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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Meanings

nounraypunk (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA subgenre of speculative fiction that blends retrofuturistic aesthetics with imaginative, often surreal technology, drawing heavily on the science fiction of the mid-20th century. It typically features ray guns, space exploration, and other fantastical elements inspired by pulp magazines, comics, and films from the 1930s to the 1960s.

    This is not a story about science fact. This is fantastic science fiction. The old guard kind, the raypunk kind.

    2019, Lon E. Varnadore, Space Ranger: Mars: Part of the Known World Series, Lon E. Varnadore, →ISBN, page ??
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    Tezuka prodigy Rintaro was the director for this short saga that took Yoshitaka's original designs and rewrote them as a raypunk fantasy.

    2024 February 24, Jer Alford, Obscure O.V.A.s, Mini-Komix, page ??
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