monk punk


a variant strain of science fiction where lovable technophile monks are the heroes of misadventures unfolding in a post-apocalyptic era. these wacky abbots and friars play crucial roles in preserving scientific and philosophical knowledge, even though it gets warped and twisted through the filter of religious superst-tion, often to ridiculous extremes. bonus points for radioactive mutants, deformities, plague, witch burnings, alien visitations, nuclear fallout. like other -punk genres, this one has nothing to do with punk rock, except maybe if you count the mutants.

contrast with cyberpunk and steampunk, two related sci-fi “punk” sub-genres.
walter miller’s a canticle for leibowitz and neal stephenson’s anathem are the twin towers of monk punk, a sci-fi genre which might as well include the name of the rose, since europe’s dark ages were pretty much a post-apocalyptic nightmare of their own.

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