#660 – FFAF: What are Cyberpunk, Steampunk, and Dieselpunk?

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this free-for-all-Friday, Trent explores three popular sub-genres in science fiction and why sci-fi doesn’t always have to be “Star Trek” or “Star Wars.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.4	It is free for all Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:12.9	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:16.9	And today we're going to talk about three subgenres in science fiction.
0:21.5	Now Monday and Wednesday we talk apologetics, we talk theology, how to explain and defend
0:26.0	the Catholic faith.
0:27.4	But on Friday, as we have been doing for many years now from the very beginning of the
0:31.5	podcast, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.
0:34.2	It's just fun, it's Friday.
0:35.2	You can just have fun and talk about all different kinds of things, learn, maybe learn something
0:39.6	new today.
0:40.6	So today I want to talk about genre, science fiction, but in particular I want to talk about
0:45.6	some subgenres related to it, right?
0:48.6	Because you can have a genre and then you can have, but it can be broke up into a lot of
0:52.8	subgenres.
0:53.8	So you can take horror, for example.
0:55.4	There's the horror genre, but there's the supernatural thriller, there's the slasher
1:02.0	genre, which is the guy with a knife running around people.
1:05.2	But then it gets even weirder.
1:06.2	You have cosmic horror monsters from the deep or from space, be like Kuthulu, love
1:13.4	crafty and horror, if you will.
1:15.8	You can have science fiction horror elements.
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