decopunk

English

Etymology

Deco +‎ -punk

Noun

decopunk (uncountable)

1. A subset of the dieselpunk science fiction genre and aesthetic that incorporates Art Deco elements and other aspects of the technology, culture, and fashion of the 1920s-1930s.
   • 2012 February, David Dudley, “Lost City Diner”, in Urbanite, page 57:

     The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin.

   • 2015 October 28, “Phoenix Books Presents”, in Seven Days, page 52:

     Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own.

   • 2018, Gareth Schott, “What or Who is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock”, in Felan Parker, Jessica Aldred, editors, Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, page 226:

     Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:decopunk.