Citations:retrofuture
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English citations of retrofuture
- 1992, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “Futuristic Flu, or, The Revenge of the Future”, George Slusser, Tom Shippey (ed.), Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, part 1, 33:
- The retrofuture is an invention of our own age. It is unprecedented in earlier literature because the future has never before crowded into the present as much as now. The notion of a vengeful or viral future returning through time to destroy or infect us is not unlike the world catastrophe syndrome characteristic of many schizophrenic episodes.
- 2008, Lorna Jowett, “Back to the Future: Retrofuturism, Cyberpunk, and Humanity in Firefly and Serenity”, Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran (ed.), Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, chapter 8, 102:
- The Western elements make a contribution to Firefly's retrofuture in other ways. Deliberate parallels are drawn here between Firefly and cyberpunk-influenced science fiction because from different vantage points they address similar issues and encounter similar problems.