Points Of View And Perspectives

The Peregrine.

Pages of dialogue can pass without specifying a point of view. Then suddenly there is one:

"Trevelyan heard the amplified voice..." (CHAPTER XII, p. 108)

The pov can change between discrete narrative passages within a chapter or just between chapters:

"...Sean saw an uprooted tree falling..." (CHAPTER XIII, p. 111)

Futuristic sf can comment on the past and the present, e.g.:

"In the day of great cities, men had been caged in the stony, glassy mountains of their creation, and it was not strange that so many of them had retreated into madness." (CHAPTER XII, p. 103)

That's us.

There are other powerful examples. I have quoted Watchmen, an alternative history by Alan Moore. One of its protagonists thinks that the US would have gone mad as a nation if it had lost in Vietnam... Poul Anderson's "Eutopia" presents a bleak outsider's view of our timeline.

After mentioning cities, The Peregrine proceeds to ask:

"What then of humanity locked in a shell of metal and raw energy, between the stars?" (ibid.)

The later story, "The Saturn Game," which became the earliest instalment of the Technic History, addresses this question.

The Peregrine has a large park with an outside view.