![]() ![]() Two out of the three stories in Age of Godpunk were originally released as e-book novellas. I’ve always been a bit wary of simply sticking the suffix ‘punk’ after something in order to make it sound edgy and cool, but it worked for cyberpunk and steampunk, so why not godpunk? Desk editor David Moore coined the term godpunk more or less contemporaneously with Pornokitsch’s Jared Shurin, so they get joint credit. It was only after I’d written the first three of the Pantheon novels that the guys at Solaris and I started to wonder if we shouldn’t give the series a classification of its own. ![]() Both of those, I would submit, qualify as godpunk. ![]() Dan Simmons’s Ilium is one, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods another. There’ve been other books giving ancient gods a science fiction/ urban fantasy twist. How did you come to create Godpunk?Īs with most things in my life, I wasn’t aware I was doing it until after it was done. There aren’t many authors who can lay claim to having pioneered or defined a sub-genre. ![]()
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