A Beginning And An End

I am struck by the contrast between The Man Who Sold The Moon which is Volume I of Robert Heinlein's Future History and Genesis which is both a single-volume future history and the last of eight such fictional histories written by Robert Heinlein's successor, Poul Anderson. For me, these two volumes are the beginning and end of American future historical writing. Of course someone whose reading of sf is more recent and up-to-date can certainly tell me otherwise!

Wanting to write more about these two works, I find that I have already done so:

Haven't Future Histories Come A Long Way?

Even better, Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization and Larry Niven's Known Space future history series are in there as well. I cannot improve on this post at present. But someone else might.