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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Example weirdpunk premise whose implications are not obvious to me: a world where between 18 and 40 you must live at least (age-18)*1000 miles away from where you were born, after which you can live anywhere. You can visit but not live closer to birth-home than limit.
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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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