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Leiber's alternate retro-future is vividly described, but is not all it could be: the story is essentially plotless, told from the perspective of a man who, in this alternate timeline, sees himself as an aged Hitler-who-never-was, a reveal whose foreshadowing (small, horizontal moustache) is a dead giveaway.
REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan 2010
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Finally, Fez creators Polytron unveil their latest retro-future logo for Infinitron Polypharma, which can only mean that work steadily continues on Power Pill, their iPhone collaboration with Paper Moon creators Infinite Ammo.
Boing Boing 2009
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* Join Alex Greenberg on a trip to the retro-future.
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It goes a long way towards creating the steampunk retro-future setting which serves as the well-drawn backdrop for his retelling.
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Instead of using the future to reflect the present, Palmer uses a retro-future, an early 20th century powered by coal and steam.
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And our 'one shot's for the day: gorgeously illustrated Mario deaths, and retro-future Pac-Man/Space Invaders in automotive form.
Boing Boing 2009
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I think Max Allan Collins should sue the "Iron and the Maiden" creators for stealing the basic plot to "Road To Perdition" and dressing it up in a retro-future gloss.
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Plot-wise, it's the first-person narrative of mild-mannered Harold, a greeting card writer in the early 1900's retro-future of Xeroville, a city that's straight out of Metropolis or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
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Of course, airships scream retro-future, and nothing is more retro-future than an atomic airship:
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Steve Summers will deliver a set of crisp, hard-hitting techno in between retro-future funk at U Street Music Hall around 10 p.m.
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