English

Noun

sandalpunk ‎(uncountable)

1. A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Iron Age, especially the Roman Empire.
   • 2006 March 15, Llewelyn Jones <llywelynjones@yahoo.co.uk>, “ASBs Invade”, in soc.history.what-if, Usenet, message-ID <4769418477491436>:

     Do you have something against sandalpunk or something? If you don't like that, try some Bacon. Roger Bacon, that is.

   • 2006 May 26, Logan Kearsley <chrono.surfer@verizon.net>, “Telling time in antiquity”, in rec.arts.sf.composition, Usenet, message-ID <9d3eaa093f0d1c9d>:

     I've been planning out a sort of sandalpunk-leading-to-steampunk alternate history setting for a while, but I've not yet gotten to a satisfactory level of detail or plausibility to do anything but the most basic story-idea-outlining in it.

   • 2011, Noam S. Cohen, Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel, ISBN 0549852727:

     The specificity of steampunk's Victorian setting, particular in light of the relative presence and notoriety of steampunk vis-à-vis similar subgenres set in other time periods ('clockpunk' or 'sailpunk' set in the Renaissance, such as Paul McAuley's Pasquale's Angel; 'sandalpunk,' set in a technologically innovative ancient world; 'dieselpunk,' 'stonepunk,' etc.) argues for the importance to the present of shifts in technological culture that took place during the Victorian era.