What is Lacepunk?

[Mike]

I am trying to define what lacepunk is to a friend, but struggling. How do you define it?

[vtsaogames]

Someone on TMP said this: Lacepunk refers to science fiction based in the Age of Reason.

 

This is the first time I’ve heard of it. Our crew plays games in the period but find history weird enough without adding in fantastical elements.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Check out Neal Stephenson’s Baroque .trilogy, although it is more historical than sci-fi. Still, it will give you an idea.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Rhoderic]

Best defined in pictures.

[Hafen von Schlockenberg]

Another example from fiction would be the “Age of Unreason” four-volume series by J. Gregory Keyes, (starring a young Benjamin Franklin), in which, among other things, alchemy actually works.

[Phil Dutré]

Neanderthalpunk?

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