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[[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]] or [[failed prediction]] in the process.

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*[[1999]]
** Doctor Samuel Beckett steps into the [[Quantum Leap]] Accelerator and vanishes.
** [[July 17]] - An alien spaceship falls through Earth's atmosphere, levelling part of [[Mount Everest]], destroying [[Moscow]] and [[Stockholm]] and causing much other damage before finally landing on 
MacrossSouth Ataria Island. (''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'')
** [[September 13]] - [[Nuclear waste]] dumps on the far side of the [[Moon]] explode, sending the Moon hurtling into deep space carrying [[Moonbase Alpha]] along with it (''[[Space: 1999]]'')
*[[2000]]
**Massive [[overpopulation]] (''Make Room, Make Room'' by [[Harry Harrison]])
** [[September 13]] - Second Impact occurs at the [[South Pole]], melting the world's ice, tilting the planet off its axis and killing off half of the world's population. (''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'')
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==21st century==

*[[2001]]
** A timequake occurs, sending the citizens of the world back to [[1991]], where they must relive their lives in automatic pilot for ten years - ''[[Timequake]]''
** An extra-terrestrial obelisk found on the moon, prompting an investigation flight to Jupiter, which is sabotaged by [[HAL 9000]] (''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] and [[Stanley Kubrick]])
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**[[House Atreides]] take over stewardship of the planet [[Arrakis]]. (''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'')

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**The Time Traveller arrives and encounters the Eloi and the Morlocks. [[H.G. Wells]]: "[[The Time Machine]]"

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**The Human race leaves the Milky Way galaxy: [[Babylon 5]]