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Retrofuturism features an intrusion of modern people, technology and ideas into an earlier world. I like it because I can write about modern issues within a scenario that allows swords and swordfights, sailing ships and cannon duels, as well as contrast modern attitudes with those of slower changing societies.

My modern intrusion in the Iskander series of novels are a small group of engineers, technologists, and resource scientists stranded in an alternate 17th century Earth called Gaia. The Is… Continue