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[[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)
*"1993"
**The Red Dwarf crew travels into the far distant future to a point after the Universe has begun collapsing towards a [[Big Crunch]], causing time to run backwards until it is the equivalent of 1993 on Earth again (or 3991, as the locals write it). They spend three weeks in Nodnol ([[London]] backwards). In the novel ''Backwards'', they arrive to collect Lister in Niagara Falls in the year 9891 (1989).

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*100 trillion- ,000,000,000,000
**The stars and suns have burnt out as the end of the universe approches. The remnants of the human race lives in silos, trying to get to a last paridise, utopia. the events of Doctor Who ([[utopia]])

==The end of time==
*[[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]] in the novel by [[Douglas Adams]].
*The Inquisitor decides there is no afterlife or god, and that the only purpose in existence is to lead a worthwhile life. So, he constructs a time machine to judge every person in history. (''[[Red Dwarf]]'')
*The guru Gaspar and the God of War, Spekkio, await the ones who will slay Lavos and its spawn. (''[[Chrono Trigger]]'') (However, the timeline of Chrono Trigger is completely independent of our Earth's).
==Beyond the end of time==
*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]