Anderson's Time Patrol series is a definitive causality violation time travel series. (Is it the only causality violation time travel series?)
Anderson's There Will Be Time is both a circular causality time travel novel and a synthesis of time travel with future history.
Robert Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" is perhaps the definitive circular causality time travel story.
Anderson's Genesis is an ultimate single-volume Stapledonian future history and a culmination of the theme of Frankenstein, the first science fiction novel. (Is it right to create human beings?)
Giving Heinlein his due, Anderson surpasses him.
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Kaor, Paul!
I agree Anderson Technic Series surpassed Heinlein's Future History. And Asimov's ultimately disappointing Foundation books.
I argue that other future histories deserve at least honorable mention:
Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories
David Wingrove's CHUNG KUO series
H. Beam Piper's Terro Human History
Larry Niven's Known Space stories, with contributions from other writers.
Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominium timeline, with contributions from other writers.
Ad astra! Sean
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