Future History Beginnings IV

See Future History Beginnings III.

All comments are welcome, particularly comments that generate further posts.

I had paraphrased the beginnings of future histories written by:

Stapledon
Wells
Heinlein
Anderson (Psychotechnic)
Niven
Bradbury
Blish
Anderson (Technic)

Sean pointed out that Pournelle's Co-Dominium future history could have been included and, in fact, Pournelle's Chronology begins:

1969 Neil Armstrong sets foot on Earth's Moon.

This illustrates the point that I was making: that future histories reflect the time in which they are written. Stapledon and Wells began by referring to the Great War. (It would be neat to be able to add that Heinlein's Future History ends with time travel to World War I but I don't accept Time Enough For Love as a valid continuation of the Future History.)

Stapledon, Wells and Pournelle begin by referring to a major recent event whereas other future historians begin by referring to a fictional near future event, e.g., in Anderson's Psychotechnic History, World War III. Similarly, the earliest date given in Asimov's I, Robot (1950) is 1982, the birth of Susan Calvin, the first robopsychologist. See Past And Future.