Poll: Steampunk or cyberpunk?

[TyphoidMary]

I love Victorian fashion and accessories, and when you add things to them you end up with some really fantastic things. I like Cyberpunk fashion and everything, but it isn't as interesting to me. Steampunk uses fantastic fabrics and materials, lots of different things. Yay corsets.

 

[Tanis]

Steampunk seems more whimsical, but Cyperpunk is just cool.

 

[Sacman]

A lot of people are asking what cyberpunk actually is and where it came from, from what I've read over the years many believe this was the first Cyberpunk story http://www.amazon.ca/Neuromancer-William-Gibson/dp/0441569595/ref=pd_cp_b_3
And by a Canadian no less, WOO HOO

Actually it is widely accepted that the 1927 silent German film Metropolis is the forefather of Cyberpunk... besides even Blade Runner(1982), the most famous piece of Cyberpunk, came out before Neuromancer(1984) and even before that, in literature, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? came out in 1968...

and it saddens me that so very few people understand what Cyberpunk is... Most people just guess it has to do with the futuristic setting... but it doesn't have to do with setting or whether something is shiny or not, it has to do with themes and ideas surrounding the effects of technology in society, which means that the best cyberpunk doesn't need a huge over the top city or androids, all it needs is the ideas and theme that arise because of the use of technology... take for example my favorite show Serial Experiments Lain the setting isn't futuristic, if anything it's less futuristic than today, but it's still one the purest forms of cyberpunk because the way it handles it's vision of the internet and how it blurs the line between reality and fiction, which is a heavy cyberpunk theme... now look at something say, I dunno, Pinocchio, it really doesn't seem cyberpunk but it encompasses several of the same themes that are present in cyberpunk, like for example the main characters crisis of identity...

 

[HijiriOni]

Cyberpunk.... Blade Runner FTW..

This, and Robocop, and Terminator.

 

[Yureina]

I like Cyperbunk more. *polishes Ghost in the Shell fanboy badge*

Damn right. Gotta love Ghost.

 

[Ithos]

I like both. This thread makes me want to see Serial Experiments Lain again.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Cyberpunk overall (What can I say, I love Sci-Fi!), but Steampunk on the other hand for a little retro, old fashioned feel to counterbalance here and there.

 

[Firia]

Up yers, steam power! Gimme my cyberarms, optical enhancements, and all that good stuff. I wanna be a human that looks as sleek and sexy as any product on the market, but as good if not better than olympians! Hells to the yes!

 

[Firia]

and it saddens me that so very few people understand what Cyberpunk is... Most people just guess it has to do with the futuristic setting...

I'm sad that almost twice as many voters (thusfar) prefer steampunk over Cyberpunk. I suspect that has to to with pop culture among the gaming community. Right now, for whatever reason, steampunk themes are popping up all over the place, from costumes to games, comics, to, well, I dunno. Steampunk goes largely unnoticed by me, other than its increased trend being noticed.

I wonder though, if we were to turn back the clock say, 10 years and ask the same question if we'd get the same responce. I'd have almost as much of the same popular cyberpunk books, movies, games (baring releases that came after 10 years, natch). So the content of the genre really wouldn't have altered much, but I imagine it'd be much more popular. Go back to the 80's and I would bet hard cash that it would win out every time.

So, Steampunk is popular right now for now. I hope to throw my hat into the ring of cyberpunk contributers soon. Through written and illustrated means! If my efforts if that field are popular, I may take it on to a new level!

 

[ikrit]

Much as I love Ghost in the Shell and Lain, I simply cannot resist a good zeppelin.

 

[Wutaiflea]

I couldn't choose. I love both genres.

 

[SageSteven]

I love steam-punk. It has produced great comics like girl genius and wonderful games like Mission: Red Planet (Steam Punk in space!).

http://hillep.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tegelased.jpg

 

[Hashime]

Cyber punk, a belt made of RAM is way cooler.

 

[mr_rubino]

and it saddens me that so very few people understand what Cyberpunk is... Most people just guess it has to do with the futuristic setting...

I'm sad that almost twice as many voters (thusfar) prefer steampunk over Cyberpunk. I suspect that has to to with pop culture among the gaming community. Right now, for whatever reason, steampunk themes are popping up all over the place, from costumes to games, comics, to, well, I dunno. Steampunk goes largely unnoticed by me, other than its increased trend being noticed.

I wonder though, if we were to turn back the clock say, 10 years and ask the same question if we'd get the same responce. I'd have almost as much of the same popular cyberpunk books, movies, games (baring releases that came after 10 years, natch). So the content of the genre really wouldn't have altered much, but I imagine it'd be much more popular. Go back to the 80's and I would bet hard cash that it would win out every time.

So, Steampunk is popular right now for now. I hope to throw my hat into the ring of cyberpunk contributers soon. Through written and illustrated means! If my efforts if that field are popular, I may take it on to a new level!

I saw a bunch of people complaining how overexposed steampunk is on some article like a year ago, and I'm wondering the same thing I do now: Where is all this media you speak of where steampunk is mainstream and all the rage?
Geez, one guy was acting like steampunk had raped his mother because people dared to assume he liked steampunk just because he had a website dedicated to pulp comics from the 30s and 40s. Teh horrah.

 

[snowman6251]

I like steampunk more. Cyberpunk just feels like straight up generic sci-fi. Steampunk is both technologically advanced and technologically shit at the same time. It makes it feel unique.

 

[Marowit]

Cyberpunk...and hopefully Deus Ex Revolutions will be a good cyberpunk game with an open-ish world *shakes dice*

 

[Arachon]

I suppose that depends on the premiss: Are we considering these -punks to be full-fledged genres, thus free of certain restrictions, or are they sub-genres of sf&f?

I'd say they're subgenres, very well characterised, but sebgenres nevertheless.

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

Steampunk FTW. Ruling the world with boiled water, cumbersome flying machines and old-fashioned language

 

[Arctodus_Simus]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...


Steampunk at its finest.

Magnificent

I bought a massive compilation of shorts off Amazon just for this one; also I hear there's supposed to be more? OR more being made? Or something.

One can only hope!

I believe more are being made, but they've been in production for years now...

Brill!

*holds hope in heart*

Out of curiosity, have you ever seen...


This?

Hehe, eels...

 

[Hassao]

I love steampunk and it's clothing.