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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