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True fact: the first things that came to mind were M. John Harrison's Viriconium books, J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, and Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius books, all of which of course were actually written either well before or only a few years after your 1974 cut off, but are still just about the most modernest SFF out there, if modern means anything other than written in a year beginning with "2".

MIND MELD: New SF/F Recommendations for the Golden Age Reader 2009

His own phrase is a miscellany of old words, deceased long before the Cæsars, and entombed by Varro, and the modernest man he follows is Plautus.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-consul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new movements, the saviour of ancient institutions, the youngest, brightest, modernest of prime ministers -- or a tremendously popular poet.

The Research Magnificent 1906

And there it is, above the modernest slums of modern Rome!

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

The Thames beside the palace is not only swift but wide, and from the little flowery height on which we surveyed these very modernest of pleasure-craft they had a remove at which they were lost in an agreeable mystery.

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

With _Goneril_ and _Regan_, the two proud and wicked sisters, -- associated in the mind of the modernest

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 Various 1876

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