Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge as well you know, tells us that atompunk "relates to the pre-digital period of 1945-1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age, Communism and concern about it exaggerated as paranoia in the USA along with Neo-Soviet styling, underground cinema, Googie architecture, the Sputnik programme, superhero fiction, the rise of the US military/industrial powers and the fall-out of Chernobyl. Its aesthetic tends toward Populuxe and Raygun Gothic, which describe a retro-futuristic vision of the world.[11]
Atompunk is b-movie sci-fi romps; it's girls in 50s bikinis with rayguns and robots; it's a Kerouacian foray into an atomic future where George Jetson is your neighbour and your best gal hails from Mars. Atompunk is cold war kitsch in a pointed bra.
So grab a martini, put on your spacesuit and join me outside for some superatomic fun!
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