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I'll just steal Jay Lake's title
james_nicoll
Steampunk is officially dead.

Which raises the question: what mostly reactionary, mostly retrogressive new genre will replace steampunk?

I'm imagining a Roman Romanticization where the various ethical failures of Romans are inappropriately lionized and the slaves are mostly portrayed as happy white rappers. Sandalrap.

In retrospect, this is too effed up even for slans.

Yeah, that Rome IN SPACE book I quoted about a year ago has the slave being happy to be bought by her hunky stud in part because her previous owners were examples of the downside of how Romans did slavery.