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Timeline of fictional future events
[[Science fiction]] and other related fields of [[fiction]] are often set in the future, or at least involve events in times that have not yet occurred. This list is a chronological collection of significant events from various works of such fiction. It includes some events that were set in the future when the fiction containing them was first written but which have now been overtaken by real [[history]], becoming a form of [[alternate history (fiction)|alternate history]] or [[failed prediction]] in the pr(contracted; show full)
*[[1910]]
** When the orbit of [[Comet Halley]] intersects with the Earth, catastrophe ensues, but the comet gases cause an alteration of human psychology to a more rational thought-process - as revealed ''[[In the Days of the Comet]]'' by H. G. Wells (written in [[1906]]).
*[[1917]]
** [[March 5]] - British [[
Royal Flying Corps|RFC]] Flt. Lt. Decker is lost over France - and flies through a white cloud - but returns unexpectedly, a changed man. ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode ''The Last Flight''.
** [[September 9]] - George, the Time Traveller, encounters his friend Filby, but it's actually Filby's now grown son James, who advises his father was lost in the [[Great War]] - George Pal's production ''[[The Time Machine]]'', 1960.
*[[1920]]
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==External links==
*[http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were]
* [http://moa.dracandros.com/ Fictional encyclopedia wiki with a section for fictional history]
* [http://manconquersspace.com/MCSPg1.html Man Conquers Space]

[[Category:Fictional timelines|Fictional timelines]]