Weirdpunk: sci-fi based on premises that are not obviously either utopian or dystopian at a glance, or with politics worn obviously on the sleeve like hopepunk *cringe*, or obviously fetishizing a particular technology.
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Enforcement mechanism can be anything: a high stay-near-home tax, a weird disease that infects people who stay local as adults, weird market or state mechanisms.
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Rich people pay big money to have their kids born in Nunavut
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Locus Solus is a good early 20th c. example of this. It features, among other things, autonomous blimp robots that lay mosaic tile with extracted teeth. Too scientific for surrealism, too surrealist for straight sf.
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This doesn't seem dramatically different from Mormon missions, though the duration is shorter. Also the earth isn't big enough for 22,000 miles.
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Logan’s saunter
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