Wednesday 27 September 2017

Future Histories Without Space Travel

Ragnarok
the future Buddha
Prophecy Of Merlin by John of Cornwall
Prophetiae Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Shape Of Things To Come by HG Wells
Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan
the original Maurai History by Poul Anderson
the Emberverse History by SM Stirling

Not the Biblical Armageddon because, in that, a city flies down from heaven. See here.

Poul Anderson and SM Stirling are, of course, on the list.

ERB's main future history is a Moon trilogy and a sequel to his Martian series.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I'm not sure it was accurate to include Anderson's Maurai stories as a "future history" which does not show us space travel. In ORION SHALL RISE, we see one defiant nation building a space ship, in opposition to Maurai attempts to suppress both that and any use made of nuclear energy.

Yes, you meant the earlier Maurai stories, not what we see in ORION SHALL RISE, but it still struck me as a bit odd.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
The original Maurai series was already a future history before ORION... and THERE WILL BE TIME came along.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I know, but ORION SHALL RISE was part of the Maurai future history (with THERE WILL BE TIME more "tangential" to that timeline). So I still thought your comments rather odd.

Sean