Culminations
Robert Heinlein's Future History: resolution of social conflicts and beginning of interstellar travel.
Heinlein's Juvenile Future History: beginning of interstellar travel.
Asimov: extragalactic threat.
James Blish's Cities in Flight: new creations.
Blish's The Seedling Stars: colonization of a changed Earth by Adapted Men.
Anderson's Flying Mountains: beginning of interstellar travel.
Anderson's Twilight World: colonization of the outer Solar System.
Larry Niven's Known Space: a society so utopian that Niven cannot write about it.
Pournelle: First Contact.
I know that there are more but my knowledge has its limits.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I can think of some "future histories" I might have included, such as Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories or Frank Herbert's DUNE series.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But what are the culminations of those histories?
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I don't know about the DUNE series, but I believe Cordwainer Smith intended the Rediscovery of Mankind, the rebirth of the Old Strong Religion (Christianity) and the common destiny of humans and the underpeople to culminate his Instrumentality series.
Ad astra! Sean
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