Olaf Stapledon wrote a longer fictional history, Last And First Men.
Robert Heinlein wrote a future history series, the Future History.
Poul Anderson imitated the Future History with the Psychotechnic History.
Brian Aldiss combined the Wells/Stapledon and Heinlein models in Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand. (What a title!)
Anderson combined the two models in Genesis. (About a new beginning in a geological future.)
Anderson's The Earth Book Of Stormgate goes even further because it is a single volume of Anderson's Technic History future history series but is also both a future history in its own right and a work of fictional historiographical research.
And that is more than enough for this evening. (I want to read something else before going to bed!)
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