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 made of the same stuff as the present.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)