Aspects of psychodynamics developed by the priest class in a theocracy.
Isaac Asimov's Future History
Hari Seldon's psychohistory is a mathematical predictive science of society.
Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History
Eino Valti's psychotechnics is also.
Anderson's Technic History
Chunderban Desai further develops an ancient theory of historical cycles.
Anderson's Time Patrol...
...studies history as it happens and uses advanced computers to analyze the data.
Anderson's Starfarers
Cross-temporal communication.
James Blish's The Quincunx Of Time
The Service receives messages from the future.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteBy and large, keeping in mind Stirling's criticisms, I think Hord's theories about the rise and fall of civilizations makes sense, broadly speaking.
Ad astra! Sean