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The Future Is a City: Megalopolis and Why Architecture Matters to Sci-Fi

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Hello Tomorrow! Trailer Gives Us a Retro Future Where Selling Lunar Timeshares Has a Dark Side

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Finding the Future Where You Least Expect It: L.A. Law’s “The Plane Mutiny”

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Check out the Retro-Future in Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom

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Beware the Retrofuture: Elan Mastai and Jack Womack Navigate the Problems of SciFi Nostalgia

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Now We Definitely Want to Live in Space

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What Is The Frequency of Hope? Tomorrowland Never Quite Tells Us

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Things From Another World: The Outer Space Men Toys Beam into a New Century

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Parachronism, Possibility, and Penny-Farthing Futurism

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The Curious Case of Paul Donner: Michael Dempsey’s Necropolis

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Towards a Steampunk Without Steam

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The Wonderful Future That Never Was (Excerpt)

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