I agree that Fallout was retro-futurism; I'd forgotten there was a term for it. As for Pattern Recognition, the postmodern label isn't mine. It's a massively o

I agree that Fallout was retro-futurism; I'd forgotten there was a term for it. As for Pattern Recognition, the postmodern label isn't mine. It's a massively overloaded term, certainly, and I know some writers cut off the "postmodern novel" era around 1990. But the sort of academics who include Paul Auster and David Eggers wrote about it as a postmodern work in postmodern theory journals. It's definitely not a clean example of "future in the past", since it could easily have been very-near-future - I suppose I mostly included it for the tone of an unanchored present, rather than the actual chronology.