sandalpunk

English

Etymology

sandal +‎ -punk

Noun

sandalpunk (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Iron Age, especially the Roman Empire.
    • 2006 March 15, Llewelyn Jones <llywelynjones@yahoo.co.uk>, “ASBs Invade”, in soc.history.what-if, Usenet‎, message-ID <4769418477491436>:
      Do you have something against sandalpunk or something? If you don't like that, try some Bacon. Roger Bacon, that is.
    • 2006 May 26, Logan Kearsley <chrono.surfer@verizon.net>, “Telling time in antiquity”, in rec.arts.sf.composition, Usenet‎, message-ID <9d3eaa093f0d1c9d>:
      I've been planning out a sort of sandalpunk-leading-to-steampunk alternate history setting for a while, but I've not yet gotten to a satisfactory level of detail or plausibility to do anything but the most basic story-idea-outlining in it.
    • 2011, Noam S. Cohen, Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel, →ISBN:
      The specificity of steampunk's Victorian setting, particular in light of the relative presence and notoriety of steampunk vis-à-vis similar subgenres set in other time periods ('clockpunk' or 'sailpunk' set in the Renaissance, such as Paul McAuley's Pasquale's Angel; 'sandalpunk,' set in a technologically innovative ancient world; 'dieselpunk,' 'stonepunk,' etc.) argues for the importance to the present of shifts in technological culture that took place during the Victorian era.
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