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User:ChildofMidnight/Timeline of fictional future events
[[Science fiction]] and other works 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. Some events that were set in the future have now been overtaken by real [[history]] and form an [[alternate history (fiction)|alternate history]] or a kind of [[failed prediction]], although science fiction writers are rarely attempting to predict the future. The needs (contracted; show full)
==[[22nd century]]==
*2100
**After suffering a reactor failure, the various factions from the UNSS Unity make planetfall on Chiron, in orbit of [[Alpha Centauri]] "[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]"
*2104
** Events of the TV series [[Space Rangers]]
*2122
**Events of [[Alien (film)|Alien]]
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*2148
** A last inhabitant of Earth, a mutant, encounters an astronaut from the past. They both travel back in time to stop a [[bacterial]] disaster, but the astronaut dies - ''The Man Who Was Never Born'' episode of ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', 1963
*2149
**[[Red Dwarf characters#Arnold Rimmer|Arnold Rimmer]] is born in this year. ("[[Red Dwarf]]")
*2150
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*Climax of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s story [[The Last Question]]. The end of time itself is said to be ten trillion years in the future, and the climax of the story occurs even later, after a "timeless interval".

==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]