Talk:Future history
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--207.235.162.254 14:21, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)Removed and replaced the following:
Future History was constructed by Robert A. Heinlein as the structure that ties together many of his novelllas and short stoies.
I think the term is more general than that. Mark Foskey
Banks culture is set in parallel to our time, e.g. one of the books depicts a visit of a culture ship to 1970s earth. So I doubt the classifcation as future history makes sense. -- till we *) 15:32, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
You may ask well what if we need a timeline. Than i would ask you to go to search and type in time line. --207.235.162.254 14:21, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Re*Visioning Tom Clancy's USNA Alumni Inspiration
Visio fishbone diagram adapts insights from this Eco-Futures Forum visual learning reference: ISBN 0064408345 ( Don't Know Much about Planet Earth )
RJBurkhart 01:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Futures studies connections
Many people might be surprised to learn that Robert A. Heinlein (USNA Class of 1929),
possibly the most influential science-fiction writer ever, was a Naval Academy alumnus.
So too was William Lederer (USNA Class of 1936), co-author of The Ugly American. Trident (April 26, 1996)
RJBurkhart 11:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the reference to Iain Banks's Culture novels from the list. While it's a coherent SF setting, it has very little connection with the history of humanity -- indeed, the sole Earth-based story is set in the past (1977). Phil PH 11:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image copyright
Unfortunately I think the timeline graphic is still in copyright. It was originally published in 1941; the copyright was either Heinlein's or the magazine. It was reprinted in short story collections; my copy has copyright by Heinlein with no acknowledgement to the magazine. Heinlein died in 1985, so that's only 21 years; I believe the law is 75 or 100 years. I've tagged it and it's likely to be removed shortly. If someone wants to go to the trouble of reconstructing it, I think that would not suffer copyright problems, though I'm not a copyright expert. Mike Christie 13:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Heinlein not so "de facto"
Most of the Heinlein stories I have read usually include some mention of events or other factors that are clearly not present in the real history that was current at the time of writing (such as airships instead of airplanes in Job) this makes them actual parallel universes rather than "de facto".