HG Wells
Time travel: The Time Machine.
Future history: The Shape Of Things To Come.
Robert Heinlein
Time travel: two stories and one novel about the circular causality paradox.
Future history: the Future History.
Poul Anderson
Time travel: the Time Patrol series; three circular causality novels; one collection.
Future histories: eight future histories; the longest in word count, the Technic History; the longest in time covered, Genesis.
Anderson gives us more.
Connecting time travel and future history:
The Time Machine summarizes a history of humanity from the late nineteenth century to 802,701 A.D. - different from the history implied in The Shape Of Things To Come;
Heinlein's Lazarus Long time travels to World War I but I do not accept Time Enough For Love as a valid continuation of the Future History;
the time travellers in Anderson's There Will Be Time visit periods described in his Maurai History.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I know you didn't much care for them, but I would have included Anderson & Dickson's Hoka stories, set in the era of the United Commonwealths and Inter-Being League in this list. I don't think the ten stories and one novel of this series covers more than forty years, so it's only a partial future history.
And I liked how the co-authors had mankind discovering a FTL drive early!
Ad astra! Sean
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