Monday, May 14, 2007

Another brilliant idea

First there was "punk." Then there was "cyberpunk." Then came "steampunk." After that came a bazillion other "-punk" genres, none of which have more than a handful of stories or what-have-you, and few of which have anything to do with punk at all (but that's okay). What differentiates the "-punks" are the settings: location, time period, and people involved. Dieselpunk takes place in the 40s, peatpunk chronicles the anachronistic adventures of Vikings, transistorpunk probably has something to do with radios...there's one called heliumpunk too, but I have no idea what that's about....

See? It gets confusing quickly. No one can remember all the "-punks," especially when many of them are just ideas that have no literary base for themselves. We need a place to catalogue all of them!

Enter Anachronismopedia. It's a single huge image map, a timeline that covers 8000 years of human existence. Every "-punk" is marked by when it begins and ends, and one can click the name of the "-punk" to be taken to a page that describes that genre in more detail. I've already started working on this, so no one steal it!