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Unlike the works about the far future, set thousands or more years in the future and often tackling philosophical concepts such as the ultimate fate of the universe, fiction set in the near future, roughly defined as within the next few years or decades, α has been described as more realistic and containing themes that have been described as more socially relevant.
The Purge is being used to save the country's collapsing economy. Most of the film concerns activities near the Sixth Purge on March 21, 2023. [113] [36] Quantum Leap: TV series 1989–1993 1995–1999 Sam Beckett is in 1995 when he starts leaping. Other events in the TV series bring the present time to 1999. "Quarantine" (from The Twilight Zone)
Somewhere in the near future, single people face a choice: join a program to find a mate in forty-five days or be transformed into an animal. [148] Logan's Run: 1976 Depicts a dystopian future society set in 2274 in which population and the consumption of resources are managed by the simple notion of killing everyone who reaches the age of thirty.
The far future fantasy subgenre begun with Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique stories (representing the far future fantasy subgenre), with the first work in the series published in 1932, with other influential authors here being Jack Vance (Dying Earth, 1950) Damian Broderick (Sorcerer's World, 1970) and Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun, 1980).
Some other examples of ecological dystopias are depictions of Earth in the films Wall-E and Avatar. While eco-dystopias are more common, a small number of works depicting what might be called eco-utopia, or eco-utopian trends, have also been influential. These include Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, an important 20th century example of this genre.
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The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction ("cli-fi") novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's.
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon.A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years [1] and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first.