When you have your own sandbox and only play in the sandbox of others if you choose to, not because you have to. Things are only better when you have control. One that tells the stories that previously went untold. When people stop regarding steamfunk as a gimmick and understand it is a viable and growing subgenre of steampunk.
I think it will have gotten better when we have several of our own airships. Midwest BSFA: With more people of color participating in steampunk/dieselpunk circles, do you feel things have gotten better for POC in these communities since you started? The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it. While there is not much talk of rococo or rococopunk in the documentary the spelling was perfect! As far as the Rococoa anthology goes, fourteen masters of speculative fiction have taken this hot, new genre, embraced its established themes and refashioned them in surprising ways and settings. Barron, artist and owner of Bri-Dimensional Images, did it for me with her release of the animated documentary, Steamfunk and Rococoa: A Black Victorian Fantasy. After a brief bit of research, I stumbled upon rococo…and, to my surprise, rococo punk.īefore I could come up with a name myself, the brilliant Briaan L.
I asked my author friends if anyone had a name for that time because it is a time that fascinates me – the Haitian Revolution, pirates and swashbucklers, a time of reverence for art and technology, but a time that still valued skill with a sword and connection to nature. I began a quest of discovery, fueled by a determination to find a name for this era. Ojetade: I had long been curious about the era that sits between sword and soul, normally set in the 15 th century or earlier and steamfunk, which normally is set during the Victorian era, between 18. Midwest BSFA: How did you come up with this concept? Add elements of the supernatural and/or retrofuturistic technology powered by springs and gears… that is rococoa! Think Three Finger’d Jack, the pirate Black Caesar the Black Count, Thomas Dumas, Nat Turner, the Haitian Revolution, the Stono Rebellion.
Ojetade: I define rococoa as the bridge between sword and soul (African-inspired epic and heroic fantasy) and steamfunk (steampunk expressed through black/African craft and consciousness). We recently talked to Balogun Ojetade – author, master instructor of indigenous African martial arts, screenwriter, film director, tabletop role-playing game designer, traditional African priest – about his new anthology, Rococoa.
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