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Families · Thirteen branches, one tree

Family tree

Every -punk grew out of another one. Read left to right, from the alternate past to the far future and beyond: each arrow runs from parent to child, and its number counts the works that belong to both families.

The lineage graph

13 families · 16 threads · 96 bridge works

Hover or focus a family to light its ancestors and descendants. Pick a number to read the works on that thread.

Any two families

§ 01 · Lineage

Parents and children

The same tree as a list, from the earliest depicted era to outside time. A parent is the aesthetic its child grew out of.

  1. 1987

    Steampunk

    named by K. W. Jeter
    Parents
    A root of the tree
    Bridges
    12 works shared with parents and children
  2. 2018

    Frostpunk

    named by 11 bit studios
    Parents
    Steampunk 2
    Children
    Apocapunk 8
    Bridges
    10 works shared with parents and children
  3. 2001

    Dieselpunk

    named by Lewis Pollak
    Parents
    Steampunk 10
    Bridges
    14 works shared with parents and children
  4. 1950s

    Atompunk

    named by Atomic age pop culture
    Parents
    Dieselpunk 3
    Bridges
    21 works shared with parents and children
  5. 2008

    Solarpunk

    named by Republic of the Bees
    Parents
    Cyberpunk 0
    Bridges
    14 works shared with parents and children
  6. 1984

    Cyberpunk

    named by William Gibson
    Parents
    Dieselpunk 1
    Bridges
    22 works shared with parents and children
  7. 1979

    Apocapunk

    named by Mad Max
    Children
    No descendants yet
    Bridges
    29 works shared with parents and children
  8. 1990s

    Biopunk

    named by Post-cyberpunk fiction
    Parents
    Cyberpunk 4
    Bridges
    11 works shared with parents and children
  9. 1995

    Hydropunk

    named by Waterworld era
    Children
    No descendants yet
    Bridges
    5 works shared with parents and children
  10. 1979

    Spacepunk

    named by Alien
    Parents
    Atompunk 3
    Children
    Lunapunk 6
    Bridges
    9 works shared with parents and children
  11. 1969

    Psychopunk

    named by Philip K. Dick
    Children
    No descendants yet
    Bridges
    22 works shared with parents and children
  12. 2010s

    Lunapunk

    named by Online art scenes
    Children
    No descendants yet
    Bridges
    17 works shared with parents and children
  13. 1953

    Pyropunk

    named by Ray Bradbury
    Parents
    A root of the tree
    Children
    Apocapunk 6
    Bridges
    6 works shared with parents and children

§ 02 · Thirteen branches

Every family

Each family wears its own palette and typefaces. Open one to read its history, its pillars, its shelf of works and its words.

§ 03 · Bridges

The works on every thread

A bridge work belongs to both families of a thread: the books, films and games where one -punk turns into the next.

Cyberpunk to Psychopunk 17

Atompunk to Apocapunk 15

Solarpunk to Lunapunk 11

Steampunk to Dieselpunk 10

Cyberpunk to Solarpunk 0

No work sits on both shelves yet: the influence runs through ideas, not titles.