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retrofiction 

A term connotating the tenet that all science fiction especially fiction in the farthest of futures (science fantasy (ultramodernism)) is actually retrofuturism.

The delineation that all fiction assumes a linear past (determinism).
Retrofiction argues that fiction structurally assumes a linear past or causality itself.

That is to say, fiction is structured collinear to determinism.

The term 'retrofiction' implies that fiction has attributes of a self-chimera or is self-chimerous. That is to say fiction is self-fiction or self-false.

Ie. All representation has a self-attribute: meta-value.

That meta-value is false.
retrofiction by tomorrowtomorrow November 6, 2018
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Retrofraction 

A term used for describing the math inside retro or retro-styled video games.
"The math in the original Donkey Kong is such a Retrofraction"
Retrofraction by SoftboiChris October 7, 2025
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