Retrofuturism

Retrofuturism is at is heart the future as seen from the past and the past as seen from the future.
==The Future as Seen from the Past==
This is the future as it was envisioned in the past. This is Verne, Wells, Campbell, and Asimov. It is also the future seen in Golden and early Silver Age comics.
==The Past as Seen from the Future==
This grafts modern or futuristic technologies onto old styles of art, clothing, mores, and onto it. It is Space Station 76 where morals stayed in 1970s. It takes Verne's Nautilus and makes it into an atomic submarine but Nero retains his Victorian values. It is The Wild Wild West TV series and its sequel movie.
It could be argued that the Voyager episode "The Bride of Chotica" has a Retrofuturism take on the future technology seen in the 1930s.
==Together==
Generally the two parts go hand in glove. First Men in the Moon (1964) for example uses Wells' Steampunk technology in flashback while in the present an international team lands on the moon with a decidedly Dieselpunk rocket.
==Subgenres==
* Steampunk
* Dieselpunk (over laps with Atompunk and Raygun Gothic)
* Cyberpunk
Category:Setting Concepts