"Personal Retro-Futures" is a very difficult area to define, because on one level it is highly autobiographical, but also about events that could happen in the future without ever happening, and also about some characters from periods of history that never existed in your personal time lime.
That's way pushing my work onto an editor would be some hard, as I'd rather not be in the position to deal with having to explain what parts are autobiographical, what parts are autobiographically futuristic, what parts are based on true histories but set in the future of your own time line, and what parts are "personal futures" of Anna-Marie Boeglin's or Anna Frank's family, which is even harder to define in exact words.
This is a lot of the reason Transrealism is such a difficult genre to write in, is it requires a bunch of different kind of skill sets and habits some find annoying in autobiographical, science fiction and fantasy, horror, and historical fiction on an individual level.
I imagine this is also why Kurt Vonnegut had trouble as well, because you're dealing with a book that has authenticity that can't quite be limited to autobiographical or fiction.
It used to be stuff of a very Transrealistic nature were just considered part of mainstream literary canon. Although not saying it was utopic in the eighteen hundred either, as you had rich white men also determining what was publishable to a largely rich white male audience.
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