A future history is a postulated history of the future and is used by authors in the subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) to construct a common background for fiction. Sometimes the author publishes a timeline of events in the history, while other times the reader can reconstruct the order of the stories from information provided therein.
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Famous quotes containing the words future and/or history:
“The future is the worst thing about the present.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)