Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction

2025/01/01 by Grant Wythoff, Theodore Leane · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Narrative Theory and Analysis

paper · doi:10.18737/552626

Abstract

This dataset contains metadata for 2,564 English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.

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