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Cliff Jones Jr.<p>&quot;𝘐𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭… 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴… 𝘢𝘴 𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵… And then he saw it, that new strange expression. And this time it stayed on his face. He leaned forward, hoping to decode the emotion.&quot; —Jeff Noon in Somniscope: A Dreampunk Convergence (2024)</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/dreampunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dreampunk</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JeffNoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JeffNoon</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vurt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vurt</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/shortFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shortFiction</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/shortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shortStories</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sffh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sffh</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/weirdFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>weirdFiction</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/absurdistFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>absurdistFiction</span></a></p>
Cliff Jones Jr.<p>@bond@fosstodon.org The term &quot;dreampunk&quot; hasn&#39;t really taken off yet, but the genre has been blowing up for a while. Take these two new releases in the top 10 on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Netflix" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Netflix</span></a>, for example.</p><p>Good examples that come to mind are <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself" class="u-url mention">@<span>neilhimself</span></a></span>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TheSandman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheSandman</span></a>, Jeff Noon&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vurt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vurt</span></a> books, Murakami&#39;s Hard-Boiled Wonderland...</p><p>I put together a site with a description of the genre and a bunch of examples of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>books</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movies</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TV</span></a>, plus interviews with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/dreampunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dreampunk</span></a> authors like <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JeffNoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JeffNoon</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RudyRucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RudyRucker</span></a>: <a href="https://whatisdreampunk.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">whatisdreampunk.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>