History Main / TheFuture

* Creator/DCComics's 1980's miniseries ''Conqueror Of The Barren Earth'' was a spinoff of ''ComicBook/TheWarlord,'' set in the far future when the sun has begun to swell to its red giant stage.

* ''[[VideoGame/OutThere Out There Chronicles]]'' takes place 1 million, ten thousand years after humanity sent out 4 ark ships during the destruction of Earth.
* One of the time periods visited in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'' is the "[[YearX Far Future]]", where zombies have futuristic tech like {{jetpack}}s and MiniMecha , which you must fend off with futuristic plants of your own.
* ''VideoGame/PunishingGrayRaven'' has lore that, with some math, establishes the year as being around 2100. In fact, the story begins 20 years after the initial apocalyptic event, making it the future of a story already set in the future.

* VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} takes place in A.D. 17276–17277, on a distant planet.

* ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'' takes place late in February of 2379.
* ''VideoGame/IronHelix'' takes place an unspecified amount of years into the future.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' is set in a dystopian future near the beginning of the 26th century (the first game in the year 2508). Artificial gravity, huge space cities, telekinetic gadgets, moderate manipulation of time, and outer-galactic space travel have become commonplace; in fact, mankind now inhabits every solid mass in our own solar system (such as Saturn's moon, Titan) and several different parts of our own galaxy. However, there has already been at least one mass human extinction event due to exhaustion of natural resources on Earth, and so humanity had to resort to mining other planets. While mankind is actually on the path to recovery by the start of the game (planet mining has been going on for about 60 years by 2508), humanity is ruled over by the solar-system wide dictatorial [=EarthGov=], and the only primary resistance is a religious cult. Oh, and of course, mankind has accidentally awakened horrifically violent and monstrously grotesque super zombies called [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Necromorphs]] that are systematically coming in to kill every human on every planet, and said cult is determined to help them succeed.

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* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' undermines the most popular ideas about the future. Life does not get any better, nor do we have any AfterTheEnd scenario. Instead, selective breeding for stupidity has caused The Future to be actually much ''worse'' than the present, but not in a ''Film/MadMax'' way. The idea came from the '50's short story "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth, which did not receive ''any'' credit.

* ''VideoGame/PunishingGrayRaven'' has lore that, with some math, establishes the year as being around 2180-2185. In fact, the story begins 100 years after the initial apocalyptic event, making it the future of a story already set in the future.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/book-of-potential The Book of Potential]] from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' is for stories set here.

* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' is set in the late 36th century, although it is not immediately apparent due to the usage of [[AlternativeCalendar alternative calendars]] by both of the main factions in the series.

* ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' was initially set in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2020]]. As that year has since arrived, the videogame ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', inspired by it, takes place in (surprise!) 2077.

* ''Ack-ack Macaque'' by Gareth L. Powell and ''Darwinia'' by Robert Charles Wilson both take place in virtual life simulations for [[BrainUpload uploaded minds]] inside a NighInvulnerable computer system in the Heat Death of the universe.

* Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''Dancers at the End of Time'' series takes place so far in the future, that there's just a few months before the Heat Death of the universe consumes everything [[spoiler: that isn't locked in a time loop]].

* Creator/MarvelComics's answer to the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} was the original [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy (not be confused with their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] namesake, which is set in the present day). Eventually, it was established via RetCon that this was the future of a ParallelUniverse, and not the MarvelUniverse proper.

* In the Franchise/DCUniverse, ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' live 1000 years in The Future of The DCU.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is a vision of an advanced space age where humans have made contact with many civilized worlds. It is so elaborate that they have even formed a galactic alliance, with Earth as its center of operation. Along with this, Earth has evolved to be an idyllic society devoid of major conflict, and aside from the development of space travel, technological advancement is used as a source of convenience and comfort.

* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' is set rather far into The Future.

* ''VideoGame/Code7'' takes place in 2113-2114. Space travel between planets takes [[CasualInterplanetaryTravel only a few days]], humanity is starting to {{Terraform}} other planets and many {{ArtificialIntelligence}}s are sapient and want to be recognized as people.

* ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' was initially set up in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2020]]. As that year is coming close, the videogame ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', inspired by it, will take place in 2077.

-->-- ''Film/PlanNineFromOuterSpace''

'''The Future''' is typically 200–1,000 years after the present time, but there are no real set limits, and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture has been popular at times. The Future differs from ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway by the presence of Earth--whether the show is set in San Francisco or whether Earth is a distant legend, there are always ties to Earth that make it significant in the show.

* ''VideoGame/SinsOfTheSolarEmpire'' fits with the trope.

'''The Future''' is typically 200-1000 years after the present time, but there are no real set limits, and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture has been popular at times. The Future differs from ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway by the presence of Earth--whether the show is set in San Francisco or whether Earth is a distant legend, there are always ties to Earth that make it significant in the show.

Most books of advice to aspiring authors insist that SpaceOpera should be set at least several ''thousand'' years in the future, based on just how much civilization would have to develop to make such things possible, but TV shows rarely go anything like that far ahead, partly to justify showing an Earth-based society that isn't so radically different that the viewers can't relate at all, but mostly because SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. (Although really, who can predict these things?) A relatively near-future SpaceOpera setting can be justified by having ancient civilizations already out in space and humanity a relative newcomer to the galactic stage, which has the bonus of being able to fit in {{expospeak}} as aliens explain what's going on to the ignorant human barbarians.

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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's Empire-''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' novels take place in a galactic civilization so old that concepts like the laws of thermodynamics are considered to be "prehistoric" in origin. The origin of the human species is unknown; characters speculate on which part of the galaxy the oldest settlements are in, and some scientists propose that humans evolved independently on thousands of different worlds. Earth ''does'' eventually turn out to be the home of the human race, but this never becomes common knowledge. [[spoiler: The first book takes place about 25,000 years from now]]

* ''{{The Osmerian Conflict}}'' is set about 400 years into the future. Although no explicit year is given when they switched from AD to SE, the new era (SE) has been in effect for about 310 years.

* Being a spoof of [[SpaceOpera space operas,]] ''ComicStrip/BrewsterRockitSpaceGuy'' is set in the future.

* The time of ''Pinball/{{Centigrade 37}}'' is never specified, but it takes place in an era when [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] is relatively commonplace.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk 2020}}'' was initially set up in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2020]]. As that year is coming close, the videogame ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'', inspired by it, will take place in 2077.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is set in the [[GrimDark grim darkness]] of the far future ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the 41st Millennium]], to be precise), where there is only war and everything that is required for war.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' is set in [[AlternativeCalendar Year 214 of The Computer]][[note]]though that's just because "Year 214" sounds nice, so who knows how long It's really been in power[[/note]], with Troubleshooters packing laser pistols and rooting out [[RedScare Commie mutant traitors]][[note]]due to a filing glitch, The Computer found some civil defense records from 1957 and mistook it for current intel[[/note]].

* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2142'' is set from 2139-2145.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' takes place in A.D. 2183-2186. The relative closeness to the present day is a result of discovering AppliedPhlebotinum on Mars, soon followed by the formation of [[TheAlliance the Systems Alliance]] and encountering [[TheFederation the Citadel Council]], both events resulting in humanity making technological leaps that otherwise wouldn't have come about for centuries, if at all.

* ''VideoGame/{{TimePilot}}'': A video game where you started in a modern (1980s) fighter jet and started off against the first airplanes in the 30's. Different levels brought you to the present and then into the future, against space craft. ''If'' you survived past the last level, you reset back to the first, but with less ships and a faster enemy.

* VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} takes place in A.D. 17276-17277, on a distant planet.

* ''Webcomic/RoninGalaxy'': Although no specific date is given, the author refers to the setting as the "distant future." The reader is also clearly surrounded by Japanese culture, yet no actual nationalities or ethnic groups are named. Cecil wasn't born in Japan, he's from "The Moon" (AKA Japan in space.)

* ''WebComic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'' takes place in the 60th century, three millennia after Crystal Tokyo was founded in the 30th century, and a little over four millennia since the canon manga took place. [[note]] If you noticed the discrepancy between this and the manga's canon timeline, that's a plot point.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/{{Nonpachyderm}}'' is set here, and although not explicitly stated, is around 200-250 years from the present day

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' supposedly takes place 1000+ years from our time, so it's somewhere in the 3000's.