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Notable Future Histories

Other notable future histories include:

  • W. Warren Wagar's A Short History of the Future original 1989 (revisions in 1992 and 1999)
  • Poul Anderson's two future histories: The Psychotechnic League and his later Technic History (see Nicholas van Rijn, Dominic Flandry)
  • Frank Herbert's Dune universe
  • Larry Niven's Known Space series
  • Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium series
  • Paul Glover's Los Angeles: A History of the Future (1982)
  • E. E. Smith's Lensman novels, which while not intended as a predictive history have collectively been called The History of Civilization.
  • Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and its sequels
  • The Strugatsky brothers' Noon Universe ("Мир Полудня")
  • Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind
  • Neil R. Jones's Professor Jameson series (1931–1989)
  • H. Beam Piper's Terro-Human Future History
  • C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe
  • Paul J. McAuley's Four Hundred Billion Stars series (1988)
  • Isaac Asimov's Robots, Empire, and Foundation stories (the links between many of the stories are a retcon)
  • Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet
  • Beginning with his Beloved Son, many of the science fiction novels of George Turner
  • Octavia Butler's Patternist series
  • Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun
  • James Blish's Cities in Flight
  • Clifford D. Simak's City stories
  • Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels
  • The Judge Dredd world, as created in the pages of British comic 2000 AD
  • Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle
  • Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence
  • Robert A. Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow
  • David Weber's Honorverse series
  • Stephenie Meyer's The Host
  • Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series
  • Lois Lowry's The Giver trilogy
  • Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series
  • John Wyndham's The Outward Urge stories
  • Brian Stableford and David Langford's The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000
  • George Friedman's The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
  • Transhuman Space
  • Orion's Arm (see links on this page)
  • Eight Worlds by John Varley might or might not count as a future history (see Eight Worlds#Consistency
  • Andrey Livadny's The History of the Galaxy
  • Max Brooks' World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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