"But to me the future is still black and blank—is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story."--THE TIME MACHINE, by H.G. Wells.

"Our time-travellers, once they have visited the future, are only permitted (owing to the properties of time itself) at best brief returns to their present..."

"As a consequence, our knowledge of the future is sketchy, to say the least; we have no idea of how cvilizations will grow up or how they will decline; we do not know why the number of planets in the Solar System seems to very drstically between, say, half-a-dozen to almost a hundred..."

"The stories we hear are often partial, hastily reconted, poorly observed, perhaps misunderstood by the traveller..."

"Resultantly, the stories brought us to us of the Earth's future assume the character of legends rather than history..."---LEGENDS FROM THE END OF TIME, by Michael Moorcock.

This has taken a lot of thinking, a lot of research, and a lot of help from all of my fellow Wold Newton scholars. This is only preliminary. I will expect a lot of discussion and a lot of disagreement.

Some thoughts where I have disagreed with some other timelines:

I did not arbitrarily put FOUNDATION at fifty thousand years in the future rather than 20, 000 or 25,000, or to make way for the theory that the DUNE and FOUNDATION empires are on the same timeline. Rather, I am choosing between two possibilities from Asimov's own words. Though Daneel himself asserts he is only twenty thousand years old, Salvor Hardin is of the opinion that atomic power is fifty thousand years old, as a reading of FOUNDATION will tell you. Daneel admits his brain was reaching its limit---and like many of us, perhaps his own judgement on himself, perhaps his own electronic memory was going. Hardin's statement is subject to cold proof, in the form of atomic wastes that can easily be dated by their half-lifes. It is backed by a similar statement about ruins in that age range in PEBBLE IN THE SKY. Thus, the statements by Daneel of being twenty thousand is suspect. And between the two, I choose the fifty thousand year range for FOUNDATION.

As for the DUNE dating, the DUNE Timeline compiled by others than Herbert and published puts atomic power developed some 14000 years before the Butlerian Jihad. Yet in DUNE itself, written by Herbert, it is asserted that space travel has been around for 110 centuries, not 140, before the Jihad. (See the Appendix about Religion.) Since space travel began in the late fifties, a decade after atomic power, at the earliest, that would place the Jihad around 13,000 A.D., not 16,000 A.D. as the Timeline would suggest. (I have followed the Timeline's dating past the Jihad for the most part. We know the Timeline was suspect since it misunderstood and thought all humanity was united in an imperium even in our times, or earlier. This confusion about ancient times soon grew, until the history of Earth was lost by the Foundation's time---with the help of Daneel and his fellow robots.)

The empire of the House of Corrino (later taken over by Paul Atriedes) originally grew in defiance and rivalry with the Instrumentality (centered on Earth) that Cordwainer Smith talked about. Note that the Instrumentality forbade the importation of religion. It must have feared the Orange Catholic Bible and the hordes who followed it, and the Bene Gesserit who used religion to instill power. According to NORSTRILIA, it and the other stories about Lord Jectocost and the Rediscovery of Man happened "fifteen thousand years after the bombs went down on old Earth"---i.e., at the earliest 17,000 A.D. (The other stories of Cordwainer Smith's universe are not dated, for the most part, and although their order can be determined, I will assign no dates to them.)

The Instrumentality, perhaps weakened by the religious movement conveyed by the Underpeople, was someday swallowed by the Corrino empire, its Lords and Ladies being subsumed into the Landstraad of the Dune series. When the stroon of Norstrilia eventually mutated away and became useless, they turned to the melange of Arrakis to extend their lifetimes and discovered other properties that made things like the game of Rat and Dragon superfluous. (One suspects that the Guild grew out of the Scanners.)

Leto II supposedly ended the way of the tyrant and the great empires with his death, the Golden Path. And he did succeed---for over five thousand years, as long as recorded history in our culture. But human nature being what it is, he could not succeed forever and ever. The Trantorian Empire grew, in dim memory of the Corrino and Atreides empire, as the British Empire harked back to the Roman and Egyptian empires....and after eight thousand years, blossomed into a Galactic Empire.

That was helped---after the Instrumentality fell---by the radiation front from the Core Explosion that Larry Niven talked about, which hit around 22,500 A.D. Most alien cultures fled the Milky Way Galaxy then---but humanity, stubbornly, didn't. Either their shielding (and we know that the Dune culture, at least, had advanced force shields, as did the later Trantorian/Galactic Empire) or they figured the simple truth....

That if you can travel faster than light, you needed stand still for such a barrage of radiation. Whole worlds could be abandoned where the wavefront hit, abandoned for a few centuries, and returned to once the wavefront passed. Much of the indigenous life would have died---(the huge sandworms of Arrakis being a notable exception, like the bandersnatchi, too large to be affected---one wonders if they are also a remnent of the slaver-thrint war that Niven talked about?) as the human race lived on worlds where the wavefront had already passed, centuries ago---and moved back once the wavefront passed.

That left a galaxy devoid of aliens, full of worlds for humanity to colonize and to conquer. (Alas, it seems to have killed off the Underpeople also.) The Dune/Corinno/Atriedes empire, despite the implication that it was transgalactic, is shown on closer examination to be composed of stars relatively close to Earth. Many of the worlds mentioned in DUNE circled known stars close to Earth. After Leto II's death, humanity filled much of the Milky Way---and the Trantorian empire united, for the first time, the entire galaxy.

After FOUNDATION AND EARTH, and the later unification of the Foundations/Gaia into the Second Empire, Earth was repopulated, and recognized as the rightful home of mankind. (Indeed, much the solar system was remodeled and made more hospitable, if there is any truth to DC One Million, and Justice Legion A. Headnet is a modified version of the Galaxia that Asimov spoke of.) Later at least one branch of the human race degenerated/specialized into the Eloi and Morlocks.

Closer to our own time, I have decided to include METHUSALEH'S CHILDREN in the timeline, despite the clear indication that it is a seperate timeline in Heinlein's later books. I do that for several reasons---the Diaspora of long-lived Howard Foundation worlds is oddly similar to Asimov's Spacer worlds, similarly long-lived. The place where the timeline of Lazarus Long and Heinlein's "future history" branched off from ours seems to be the sixties, and at that point Lazarus, of course, had already been born and the Howard Foundation was in full swing. Just as there was a Kaiser in both worlds, or a Calvin Coolidge, the likelihood is that there was a Lazarus Long in both worlds, and perhaps the Diaspora in one is the Spacer movement in another. Even if there isn't, THE CAT WHO WALKED THROUGH WALLS showed Lazarus was likely to have children in, and influence, other timelines. Perhaps the Spacer longevity is not just improved medicine and a relatively germ-free environment...?

I have included some of Pournelle's works, because they can easily dated, and because I was interested that they also predicted a Terran Empire ruled by an Emperor (save it was a relatively alien-free Empire of Man, save for the Moties) in the 3000s just as Poul Anderson's Terran Empire did. It's possible they were two seperate political entities, the xenophobic human-only CoDominum run from Sparta, surprised to find the Moties in the "space" it marked as its own, and the Terran Empire run from Earth, (much as the empire from Constantinople and Charlemagne's empire both claimed to be descendents of the Roman Empire, and co-existed but rarely interacted) but more likely they were rumors of the same empire given by time travellers and interpreted in their own ways by Anderson and Pournelle. (Did the militaristic tide of the human worlds grow in response to the "threat" they thought Ringworld posed? Certainly the action of the human ships in RINGWORLD THRONE is more militaristic than the culture Louis Wu remembered.)

And of course, I have included only the barest outlines of the attendent "history" with each. I have contented myself to including some sf works set in the future, and used the tales conveyed by time travellers---so contradictory that they almost take the status of myth, as stated in THE DANCERS AT THE END OF TIME---to light up a few parts of the future that the Time Traveller did not enlighten us on.

I expect this to outrage Asimovian, Heinlein, Niven, Star Trek, etc. scholars...as WNU speculations did some Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan scholars.

This is a starting point for discussion. By no means is it the final word.

And the truth...only the future can tell.

I am listing even contradictory futures. Perhaps a few main timelines, rather than one combined one, will fall out of this.

I'm starting with the 22nd century, because the 21st century timelines are waaay too contradictory.

2100--WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES by H.G. Wells.

2106--A STORY OF DAYS TO COME by H.G. Wells.

2109 --WORLD OF PTAVVS by Larry Niven.
Time Retarder field developed. Kzanol the Thrint ("The Sea Statue") awakens, and accidentally takes over the body of Larry Greenberg. They both steal ships and flee first to Neptune, and then to Pluto. After igniting the entire surface of Pluto, Kzanol is sealed in stasis. His second suit, with its telepathic amplifier is dumped into the atmosphere of Jupiter. Greenberg determines that Bandersnatchi are intelligent. (Lucas Garner is 170 years old at this time, and Charles Martin "Lit" Shaeffer is First Speaker of the Belt Political Section.)

2112 --"At the Bottom of a Hole" by Larry Niven.
A Belter, Muller, crashes on Mars, near the Lacis Solis ruins, while smuggling monopoles. He discovers that the Martians had wiped out the 3rd Martian Expedition and were still around. The Martians kill him, but his log survives. (Lit Shaeffer still First Speaker for the Belt at this time.) 2116--LOGAN'S RUN by William F. Nolan.

2116---"Nightmare of Eden 1,2,3,4" The 4th Doctor Who, the 2nd Romana and K-9 Mark II help separate two starships merged together in a hyperspace accident. They discover that the accident was staged to allow a transfer of the highly addictive drug Vraxoin between Professor Tryst on the Empress and Dymond on the Hecate. Tryst had discovered a source of Vraxoin in the Mandrel of the planet Eden and was using the "accident" to transfer the creatures, stored on a recording crystal, unnoticed. The time-travellers expose the smugglers.

2117-2125 --The survey ship "Stardust" stories by Stephen Tall.

2122 ---"Defenseless Dead" by Larry Niven.
First Freezer Bill passed, making it legal for people who were technically dead when they were frozen to be broken up for the Organ Banks, if they would be unable to support themselves if awakened. Twelve hundred thousand people are broken up for the Organ Banks. Most of these are "The Freezeout Kids", young people who were unable to adjust to the world they lived in and chose the frozen sleep.

"Death by Ecstacy" by Larry Niven.
Gil Hamilton kills his first man, Raphael Haine, an Organlegger. (His superior is still Lucas Garner at this point.)

2122: ALIEN

2124 -- PROTECTOR, PART I ("THE ADULTS") by Larry Niven.

Phssthpok the Pak arrives in the Solar system, where he captures a Belter named Jack Brennan. (Lucas Garner is 185 years old at this time; Nicholas Sohl is First Speaker for the Belt Political Section.)

Late September or Early October, 2136 --- METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN by Robert A. Heinlein.
Howard Families Meeting. Attended by Mary Sperling (183 years old, MC page 5) and Lazarus Long (claims 213 years old, MC page 13), among others The Howards (c. 100,000 men, women and child) steal starship NEW FRONTIERS and escape Earth (Time Enough For Love page xi)

2126 --"ARM" by Larry Niven.
4 June:
Raymond Sinclair, inventer of Sinclair monofilament, is murdered. He had been working on a machine to accelerate time.
("ARM". Based on Hamilton's statement that the Anubis case had been "early last year". Note: The story is distinctly dated as 4 June 2124.)

2127 --"Patchwork Girl" by Larry Niven.

Hamilton travels to the Moon as a delegate to the Conference to Review Lunar Law. It is held in Hovestraydt City, Grimalde Crater. Hamilton still works for Garner. There are representatives of five lunar cities (Hovestraydt City, Marxgrad?, Outer Soviet?, Clavius*?, Tycho*?, Luna City*?).
( Based on date of 157 years after first landing on the moon.)

2130-- RAMA REVEALED by Arthur C. Clarke. Alien artifact enters the solar system

2140--the end of TIME'S LAST GIFT by Philip Jose Farmer. The immortal Tarzan, with a gene-recreated Jane, goes to a new star system.

2141-- The adventures of WWWA Agents Kei and Yuri, sometimes (much to their irritation) known as "the Dirty Pair". (_Dirty Pair_ books, tv series, OAVs, films.)

2148 or 2149 --- THE ROLLING STONES begins, by Robert A. Heinlein.

2150---"Wings of Victory" by Poul Anderson.
Discovery of Yithri.

(STARSHIP TROOPERS might fall along here, also, but I need to research that some more.)

2160 A.D.---BICENTENNIEL MAN by Isaac Asimov.
U.S. Robot accidentally produces a robot with an exceptionally flexible brain. The robot, Andrew becomes property of the Martin family.

2161: Formation of the United Federation of Planets (_Star Trek: The Next Generation_ episode "The Outcast".)

2168--"The Time Meddler." The 1st Doctor Who. The Meddling Monk visits a bank where he deposited 200 pounds in 1968 and collects a fortune in compound interest.

2173--"Day of the Daleks 1,2,3,4" The 3rd Doctor Who and Jo visit an alternate timeline where the Daleks have taken total control of the Earth. This timeline is wiped out when a peace conference in 1973 is saved from an explosion. The Daleks invade in 2164, but this timeline is, as mentioned before, wiped out.

2174---"The Dalek Invasion of Earth: World's End; The Daleks; Day of Reckoning; The End of Tomorrow; The Waking Ally; Flashpoint"--- The 1st Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara help rebel forces to defeat the Daleks' plan to remove the Earth's core to make the planet a movable base. Susan stays behind with David Campbell, a rebel she has fallen in love with.

2179: ALIENS and ALIENS 3.

June 30, 2188 ---THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS by Robert A. Heinlein.
Gwen Novak kills "Enrico Schultz", who would kill Richard Ames
Tuesday, July 1st, 2188
Gwen Novak marries Richard Ames July 5th, 2188
The Moon Computer, that holds Adam Selene's "soul" is rescued

2190 A.D.--- Andrew is declared a free robot.(BICENTENNIAL MAN)

2195 A.D.--- "Historical Notes" on THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood.(End of novel, happens roughly one hundred and fifty years after events of novel. Maybe.)

2199-2200--the original run of STARSHIP YAMATO (STAR BLAZERS)

2200--THE GREEN ODYSSEY by Philip Jose Farmer.

2210 --- METHUSALAH'S CHILDREN by Robert A. Heinlein (end.)
NEW FRONTIERS returns to Earth (Time Enough For Love page xiv)
Relative to the travelling characters, the trip took about 17 years
Earth scientists had discovered rejuvenation
Year One of Standard Galactic Calendar (Time Enough For Love page xiv)

2211 --- Contact with the Galactic Civilization: human ship Vesarius meet the Tymbrimi(David Brin's Uplift stories.)

2220---"The Power of the Daleks 1,2,3,4,5,6" On the Earth colony Vulcan, the 2nd Doctor Who, Polly and Ben discover a group of Daleks pretending to serve the colonists. Head of Security Bragen and a group of rebels are also "using" the Daleks against each other. The Doctor manages to overload the Daleks' power systems, but not before most of the colonists are killed.

2241--the events of FORBIDDEN PLANET.

2246--SUNDIVER by David Brin.

2257-2261---BABYLON FIVE's main action.

2260 A.D.---BICENTENNIAL MAN by Isaac Asimov (cont.)
Andrew has his metallic body exchanged to organic, humanoid. He starts to make his body more and more human using self-designed prostheses. The science of prosthetics is greatly advanced by his experiments.

2268 ---Second season of original STAR TREK, with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc.

2284---"Vengeance on Varos 1,2 ("long" episodes) or 1,2,3,4 ("short" episodes)" In need of the mineral zeiton-7 to power the TARDIS, the 6th Doctor Who and Peri visit the planet Varos, one of the few worlds with zeiton-7 deposits. The planet is run by an archaic and oppressive system of government left over from the days when Varos was a prison colony; it is also being oppressed by the Galatron Mining Corporation, who are hiding zeiton-7's true value from the Varosians. The Doctor and Peri help rebel forces to reform the government, and free Varos from its corporate oppressor.

2290---"The Leisure Hive 1,2,3,4" The 4th Doctor Who and the 2nd Romana visit the Leisure Hive on the planet Argolis. While there, they help the Foamasi ambassador capture renegades from his world attempting to sabotage the Hive and forcing the Argolins to sell-out to them. They also prevent Pangol, an Argolin artificially created by tachyonics, from replicating himself further and starting a new war with the Foamasi. Meanwhile, Earth scientist Hardin discovers how to use tachyonics to rejuvenate the Argolins.

2300---NIGHT OF LIGHT and the other Father John Carmody stories by Philip Jose Farmer.

2300--THE DISPOSSESSED by Ursula K. LeGuin.

2301--THE DEMOLISHED MAN, by Alfred Bester.

Sometimes in 24th century "Problem of Pain" by Poul Anderson.

2341 --- PROTECTOR, PART II ("VANDERVECKEN") by Larry Niven.
Elroy Truesdale and the Goldskin Alice Jordan go seeking after Vandervecken. They find the man formerly known as Jack Brennan on the artificial world of Kobold. Discovery of the Pak fleet enroute to Earth. Departure of Truesdale and Brennan aboard the Flying Dutchman, and the destruction of Kobold.

2350--THE UNREASONING MASK by Philip Jose Farmer.

A muslim space officer has a religious experience.

c 2355--- A GIFT FROM EARTH from Larry Niven.
Ramrobot #143 lands on Plateau. It leads to a revolution which destroys the Planck and abolishes the Covenant of Planetfall.

2360 --- End of BICENTENNIAL MAN by Isaac Asimov.
Death of Andrew.

2364--- "The Neutral Zone", season-ender of first season of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

2368--THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST by Ursula K. Leguin.

2375-- Cities in Flight series by James Blish. Earth cities wander the galaxy.

2378---"The Androids of Tara 1,2,3,4" On the planet Tara, after recovering the fourth segment of the Key to Time (disguised as part of a statue), the 4th Doctor Who, K-9 Mark II and the 1st Romana help prevent the overthrow of Prince Reynard by the villainous Count Grendel of Gracht.

2381 ---ALIEN RESURRECTION.

2388---"Semley's Necklace" (first part of ROCANNAN'S WORLD) by Ursula K. LeGuin.

2389---"Repent Harlequin, said the Ticktockman!" by Harlan Ellison.

2400 ---EON by Greg Baer. Humans hollow out the asteroid Ceres and install The Way,

2400--LIGHT by M. John Harrison.

2401-2418---CYTEEN by C.J. Cherryh.

2413---Investment of Vega. (CITIES IN FLIGHT, by James Blish.)

2415--- "Margin of Profit" "How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson" by Poul Anderson.

2419--- ARMEGEDDON 2419 A.D.(Anthony "Buck" Rogers) by Philip Nowlan

2426--- "Three Cornered Wheel" "A Sun Invisible", THE MAN WHO COUNTS(It's worth noting than Van Rijn was born around the time Picard, Ryker, et al were winding up their "continuing mission") ---all by Poul Anderson.

2427 --- "Esau" "Hiding Place" "The Trouble Twisters"---all by Poul Anderson.

2433--- "Day of Burning" "The Master Key"---all by Poul Anderson.

2437--- SATAN'S WORLD, "A Little Knowledge", "The Season of Forgiveness"---all by Poul Anderson.

2439--THE SUNDERED WORLDS by Michael Moorcock. Supposedly the End of the universe, escape into the multiverse, but there must have been some misunderstandings or misinterpretations by Moorcock there.

2446--- "Lodestar"---all by Poul Anderson.

2455--- JASON X

2456--- MIRKHEIM by Poul Anderson.

2468--ROCANNON'S WORLD by Ursula K. Leguiion.

2472---"Colony in Space 1,2,3,4,5,6" On the planet Uxarieus, the 3rd Doctor and Jo help a group of colonists fight off the Interplanetary Mining Corporation (IMC). They also prevent the Master from gaining control of a powerful Doomsday Weapon by causing it to self-destruct.

2478---STARTIDE RISING by David Brin.

Late 25th century---"The Tomb of the Cybermen", 2nd Dr. Who. The TARDIS arrives on Telos, where The Doctor and his companions meet an expedition seeking the final resting place of the Cybermen, who haven't been seen for some 500 years. Professor Parry leads the group, but the real power lies with Erik Klieg and his companion Kaftan, who have an agenda of their own. The Doctor also seems to have his own plans, and while he is apparently trying to convince the group to leave the tomb alone, he's actually helping them get it open. Once they reach the bottom level Klieg begins to defrost the tombs, which he learns are a trap to capture beings with high intelligence so they might be converted into Cybermen. Toberman, Kaftan's servant, is captured, and the Cybermen begin the conversion process on him. They also use Cybermats, a sort of foot-long bionic silverfish, to attack the party. As The Doctor defeats this menace, Klieg and Kaftan appear with one of the Cyber weapons, intending to use it to dictate terms to the Cybermen. The Cyber Controller appears to agree, but after he emerges from the tombs he kills Klieg and Kaftan. The Doctor appeals to Toberman's remaining humanity and the man fights off the Controller long enough for The Doctor to reseal the tombs permanently, or so he hopes.

2493 --- The First Doctor Who, somewhat listless and depressed following Susan's departure, falls asleep during their next journey, and the TARDIS itself takes over their landing. They arrive on the planet Dido (which The Doctor has visited before). They find a crashed spaceship from Earth with two survivors, an apparently paralyzed man named Bennett, and a orphaned girl named Vicki. They tell the TARDIS crew that a monstrous creature called Koquillion is protecting them from the Didonians, who supposedly killed the other crash survivors. The Doctor, who remembers the planet's natives as peaceful, is suspicious, and discovers that Koquillion is actually a disguised Bennett, who intends to use the girl as an alibi to cover the fact that he committed the murders. Bennett is accidentally killed while fleeing from two Didonians, and The Doctor invites Vicki to join his crew.

2512. ANTARES DAWN by Michael McCollum

2517--- FIREFLY, the brief series, set in an Alliance that had broken free from many of Earth's political influence. The worlds the Alliance controlled were human-only.

2518---"with that of the Australian physicist Nevil Kingston-Brown, who will die in 2,518 A.D." in "Shadow Out of Time" by H.P. Lovecraft.

2522 ---Fall of the Bureaucratic State (CITIES IN FLIGHT, by James Blish.)

2535--PAST MASTER, by R.A. Lafferty.

2560- THE WORLD OF NULL-A, by A.E. Van Vogt.

2561--THE PLAYERS OF NULL-A by A.E. Van Vogt.

2639 --- Stock Market Crash. Nakamura Lines goes belly-up. Beowulf Shaeffer is given passage to We Made It and some expectations of back pay.

2641--- "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven.
Beowulf Shaeffer is hired by the Puppeteers to investigate BVS-1, formerly called Phthsspok's Star. Sigmund Ausfaller plants a bomb aboard Shaeffer's ship Skydiver.
This is the last time Carlos Wu is off Earth for nine years.
Shaeffer hires a ghostwriter, Ander Smitarrasheed.

2641 "The Boatswain" by Jerry Pournelle.
"A Better Kind of War" by Jerry Pournelle.

: "Death's Head Patrol" by Jerry Pournelle.
"The Gift of the Magi" by Jerry Pournelle.

c 2643 "The Great Beer Shortage" by Jerry Pournelle.

2643 to 2645 --- "Strong Blood" by Jerry Pournelle.

Mid-2644 ---- "Necessity" by Jerry Pournelle.

2645---- "At the Core" by Larry Niven.
Puppeteers develop the Quantum II Hyperdrive.
Beowulf Shaeffer is again hired by the Puppeteers to test-fly a QII Hyperdrive vessel. He discovers that the core of the Galaxy is exploding.
The Puppeteer Exodus begins, causing a massive stock market crash.

"Flatlander" by Larry Niven.
Shaeffer meets Elephant (Gregory Pelton) and Sharrol Janss (an analyst for Donovan's Brains Inc). Shaeffer and Elephant travel to the most unique world in Known Space and discover what can harm a General Products Hull. Late 2645 --- "The Gates of Paradise" by Jerry Pournelle.

2648 ---"Grendel" by Larry Niven.
Shaeffer is traveling to Gummidgy when the Kdatlyno artist Lloobee is kidnapped.

2650 ---"The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven.
Louis Gridley Wu is born. Ship disappearances around Sol. Beowulf Shaeffer is stranded for three months on Jinx, where he runs into Carlos Wu. Dr. Julian Forward is practicing piracy.... 2654 ---"Crashlander" by Larry Niven.
Beowulf Shaeffer and Sharrol move to Fafnir with Carlos Wu and Feather Filip.

2655 ---"Ghost"/"Crashlander" framing story.
Shaeffer meets up with Ander Smitarrasheed. Smitarrasheed kills Ausfaller in order to gain Carlos Wu's nanotech autodoc. Shaeffer and Sharrol emmigrate to Home.

2655 ---"The Soft Weapon" by Larry Niven.
Nessus and the Papandreous run into some hostile Kzinti.

2656 --- "Brenda" by Larry Niven

"The Star Plunderer" by Poul Anderson( sometime in the 27th century)

2650's or 2660's--- "A Little Beastliness" by Jerry Pournelle.

c 2668 -2670---- "Some Things Survive" by Jerry Pournelle.

2670/71--- "Those Who Lose" by Jerry Pournelle.

2674 --- "Kings Who Die" by Jerry Pournelle.

2708--- "Maitreya and the Cyborg" by Jerry Pournelle.

From c. 2748 to c. 2768--- "Building a Pillar" by Jerry Pournelle.

2750--CACHE FROM OUTER SPACE by Philip Jose Farmer.

28th century--."The Sense-Sphere", 1st Dr. Who. The TARDIS arrives on a spaceship orbiting the Sense-Sphere, and finds that its crew are held captive by the Sensorites, an alien race with telepathic abilities. Susan communicates with them (The Doctor's telepathic skills have weakened with age, and he denies possessing such abilities) and she learns that the Sensorites are afraid of being exploited by the humans, who have discovered molybdenum on their planet. The travelers also learn that many Sensorites have died from an illness which they blame on a previous Earth expedition. The Doctor discovers that they have actually been poisoned, and after he finds an antidote, he and Ian learn that three surviving members of the earlier expedition are responsible. The travelers depart and the captain of the spaceship promises to preserve the Sensorites' secrets.

2830---"There is a Tide" by Larry Niven.
Louis Wu makes the first contact with the Trinocs.

2840-2852--- "The Tribute Maidens" by Jerry Pournelle.

2850-- RINGWORLD by Larry Niven.

2858--- THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS by Larry Niven.

2892--- THE RINGWORLD THRONE by Larry Niven.

Sometime in the 29th century --- THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND by Poul Anderson.

2901-2910 --The Legion of Space stories by Jack Williamson--From the LEGION OF SPACE, ""This day, one of the first of the thirtieth century..."
1. The Legion of Space
2. The Cometeers
3. One against the Legion
4. The Queen of the Legion
2915 to Late 2910's--- "Aegir's Children" by Jerry Pournelle.

c 2939--- "Ceremonies at the Last Bar in the Village" by Jerry Pournelle.

2940-2993--- WAR WORLD: BLOOD FEUDS by Jerry Pournelle

2959-3003--- Legion of Super-Heroes and United Planets (The United Planets organization seems to have been a brief respite from Imperism, and unfortunately, didn't seem to last long.)

2976 ? --- "Tayok's Base" by Jerry Pournelle.

2980's ? --- "War World Economics" by Jerry Pournelle.

2993--- WAR WORLD: BLOOD VENGEANCE by Jerry Pournelle.

2996/97--- "Shame and Honor" by Jerry Pournelle.

Circa 3000---"The Ice Warriors" 2nd Dr. Who--- The Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria arrive at the Britannicus base during an ice age. The base is using a powerful ionizer to slow down the ice. Embedded in a nearby glacier are survivors of a Martian expedition, which the humans name Ice Warriors. Their leader, Varga, captures Victoria and frees the rest of his crew. The Ice Warriors intend to take over the Earth, using the ionizer as a weapon. The Doctor, who's concerned about the effect the ionizer might have on the Martian ship's reactor, manages to rescue Victoria, and alters the Ice Warriors' sonic cannon to use against them. Penley, one of the base's scientists, discovers the Martians' vulnerability to heat, and uses the ionizer as a weapon as well. The Ice Warriors' ship is destroyed, and the effect of the reactor explosion is not as bad as The Doctor had feared. The ionizer, as part of a worldwide network of the devices, stops the glacier, and The Doctor and his companions leave before the base's crew can thank them for their help.

3001. RING by Stephen Baxter. Space travel with GUT-drive and wormhole technology.

3111-- CITIES IN FLIGHT by James Blish. New York is launched into space.

3017--- THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven.

Mid 3017-3019--- KING DAVID'S SPACESHIP by Jerry Pournelle.

3019--- ENSIGN FLANDRY by Poul Anderson. (Flandry born 3000)

3021--- A CIRCUS OF HELLS by Poul Anderson.

3025--- THE REBEL WORLDS by Poul Anderson

3027--- "Outpost of Empire" by Poul Anderson

3028--- THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN by Poul Anderson.

3032--- "Tiger by the Tail" by Poul Anderson.

3033--- "Honorable Enemies" by Poul Anderson.

3035--- "The Game of Glory" by Poul Anderson.

3037--- "A Message in Secret" by Poul Anderson.

3038--- "A Plague of Masters" by Poul Anderson.

3040--- WE CLAIM THESE STARS! by Poul Anderson.

3042--- "The Warriors from Nowhere" by Poul Anderson.

3045---(943 P.D.)-- The "official" end of Earth's Final War leaves a home world devastated by the effects of bioweapons and genetically-engineered "super soldiers.". (Honor Harrington novels.)

3046-3047--- THE GRIPPING HAND by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven.

3047--- A KNIGHT OF GHOST AND SHADOWS by Poul Anderson.

3061--- A STONE IN HEAVEN by Poul Anderson.

3089--John Amalfi becomes mayor of New York City.

3090--(988 P.D.)-- The sole habitable planet of the Yeltsin System, Grayson, colonized by members of the Church of Humanity Unchained, lead by its founder Austin Grayson.

3101 ---"Safe at Any Speed" by Larry Niven.
Minor incident on Margrave.

3111---New York City is one of the last major cities to "lift off" from Earth with spindizzy technology. (CITIES IN FLIGHT, by James Blish.)

3175. A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITCZ by Walter Miller. Earth destroyed by nuclear war.

33rd century---Ceres gains the Imperial Seat after a planetoid strikes Terra. (According to the Dune Timeline, which shows itself unreliable in other areas.)

3418--THE STAR WELL by Alexei Panshin, Anthony Villiers as the protagonist.

3419--THE THURB REVOLUTION by Alexei Panshin, Anthony Villiers story.

3420--A MASQUE WORLD by Alexei Panshin, Anthony Villiers story.

3490--Kirth Girson, hero of the Demon Princes stories by Jack Vance, born.

3500. THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH, by Arthur C. Clarke. The quantum drive is invented.

roughly 3500--- THE LONG NIGHT

Roughly 3500--THE HALYCON DRIFT by Brian Stapleford.

Roughly 3500--the Telzey Amberdon stories by James H. Schmitz?

3524--THE STAR KINGS by Jack Vance, a Kirth Girson novel

3525--THE KILLING MACHINE by Jack Vance, a Kirth Girson novel

3526--THE PALACE OF LOVE by Jack Vance, a Kirth Girson novel.

3600--- "A Tragedy of Errors" by Poul Anderson.

3755--PLANET OF EXILE by Ursula K. Leguin.

3850. The CORRIDORS OF TIME by Poul Anderson. Time travel is invented or at least rediscovered.

EARTHMAN COME HOME has begun by this time. John Amalfi and New York City encounter the planet of He. (CITIES IN FLIGHT, by James Blish.)

3900--- THE NIGHT FACE by Poul Anderson.

3961 ---(October 1, 1859 P.D.)--- Honor Harrington is born at Craggy Hollow (the Harrington family homestead), County Duvalier, in the Duchy of Shadow Vale, Sphinx.

3975---Battle of Earth, with the Okie cities, and the destruction of the Vegan Fort. (EARTHMAN, COME HOME, from CITIES IN FLIGHT by James Blish.

3978---New York City leaves for Greater Magellanic Cloud. (CITIES IN FLIGHT, by James Blish.)

3999--Founding of New Earth in Greater Magellanic Cloud. (Ditto.) 4000--- "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson.

4000 A.D.--- Magnus Robot Fighter? A few decades later, a war-torn world that Kang the Conqueror (a time-traveller from the year 3000 A.D.) conquered.

4000. THE CHAOS WEAPON by Colin Kapp. Trans-continuum drives.

4002---(March 3, 1900 P.D.)-- Commander Honor Harrington assumes command of HMS Fearless, CL-56.

4009-4010? ---FLAG OF EXILE---Honor Harrington novel.

4011-4014. TRIUMPH OF TIME by James Blish. End and Rebirth of the universe, supposedly. (Perhaps a trick by the Web of Hercules?)(CITIES IN FLIGHT, by James Blish.)

4017 ---(March 31, 1915 P.D.)--- Notification arrives at Haven that the Star Kingdom of Manticore, under the newly-formed High Ridge government, unilaterally accepts the Havenite truce offer for all Alliance members.

4272 ---TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE by Robert A. Heinlein.
Year 2053 of the Galactic Standard Calendar (probably the same as the Diaspora Calendar Diaspora_2070 except that this places Year 1 of the Diaspora in 2220 Gregorian, instead of 2210 Gregorian - unless a Standard Galactic Year is different from a Gregorian Year).
Lazarus Long comes incognito from Out-Far, to die of old age in Secundus.
Lazarus Long is rejuventated in Secundus. His memories are recorded. Secundus Population is c. 1,000 million (TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE page 48)

4273 --- Lapis Lazuli and Lorelei Lee, clones of Lazarus Long [except that Lazarus's Y chromossome is replaced by a copy of the X] are born. Host mothers are, respectively, Hamadryad and Ishtar

4278 --- Tellus Tertius is settled by 7,000 Howards from Secundus (TEFL page 283)
Tellus Tertius is 7,000 light-years away from Earth (CWWTW page 304)
Arabelle succeeds Ira Weatheral as Chairman Pro Tem of the Families

4283 --- Minerva, the Computer that controlled Secundus, becomes a woman

4286 --- Justin Foote 45th arrives on Tertius (TEFL page 359)

4288 --- Arabelle is murdered. Suzan Barstow succeeds her as Chairman Pro Tem of the Families (TEFL page 435)

4291 --- Lazarus Long travels to the past to 1916(Time Enough For Love page 459) and later in 1918 Lazarus Long is rescued from World War I.

Lazarus thinks Tamara is 250 years old (TEFL, page 557)

4370--- THE CITY OF ILLUSION by Ursula K. LeGuin.

4870---THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. LeGuin.

4874. RING by Stephen Baxter. Conquest of human planets by Squeem.

5000 A.D.---"I talked with the mind of Yiang-Li, a philosopher from the cruel empire of Tsan-Chan, which is to come in 5,000 A.D.; "--"The Shadow Out of Time" by H.P. Lovecraft.

5021 A.D.---CAVES OF STEEL by Isaac Asimov.
----Auroran roboticist Han Fastolfe and sociologist-historian Roj Nemennuh Sarton realize the decline of Spacer culture. They want to get Earth to colonize new planets using less robotic service than Spacers. They plan to send humaniform robots to mix among Earth population to understand their way of thinking. The first humaniform robot, Daneel Olivaw, is produced according to Fastolfe's design. Meeting of Daneel and Elijah Baley.

5022 ---THE NAKED SUN by Isaac Asimov.
Elijah Baley and Daneel Olivaw investigate a murder case on Solaria. They discover that the crime was committed by roboticist Jothan Leebig, who planned to build spaceships with positronic brains. A fleet of these ships could protect the pathologically misanthropic society of Solaria from any potential outside threat. Leebig commits suicide. Fastolfe becomes an influential member of the Auroran government and strongly supports new Earth emigration. His Auroran opponents led by Kelden Amadiro want to terraform and populate new planets from Aurora instead of Earth. A group of Earthpeople led by Baley train to live outside the city domes to be able to colonize new planets.

5023 A.D.-- Elijah helps Daneel with solving a dispute between two mathematicians.

5024 A.D.---ROBOTS OF DAWN by Isaac Asimov.
Amy Barone-Stein joins Baley's would-be settlers. Baley investigates a case of roboticide on Aurora accompanied by Daneel and Giskard Reventlov. In the background of the `murder' lies the power struggle between Fastolfe and his opponents over the new colonization. Finally Aurora allows the Earth to terraform new planets and will provide technical support for the task. Giskard thinks Earthpeople must settle on worlds without robots to evade the fate of Spacers. Giskard describes the idea of psychohistory, a science that can foretell events of the future.

5026 A.D.--- The second swarm of humans from Earth begins with Auroran support. They use no robotic service at all. The first colonist group is lead by Ben Baley. The first terraformed (so called Settler) planet will later be called Baleyworld. Earth plans to ban use of robots inside its cities.

5028 A.D.--- There are already twenty-four Settler planets. The relationship between the Settler and Spacer worlds becomes increasingly hostile. 5029 A.D.--- Elijah Baley moves to Baleyworld.

5058 A.D.--- Death of Elijah Baley.

5161-4 A.D.---the events of the TV series ANDROMEDA.

5088. RING by Stephen Baxter. Conquest of human planets by Qax

5500. RING by Stephen Baxter. Third human expansion begins into galaxy.

7100--- "Starfog" by Poul Anderson.

10,000. RING by Stephen Baxter. Humans become dominant species in galaxy.

12,000. THE WIZARD OF LINN by A.E. Van Vogt.

13,000--- Butlerian Jihad

16,000---"I talked with the mind of Nug-Soth, a magician of the dark conquerors of 16,000 A.D.; "---"The Shadow Out of Time" by H.P. Lovecraft.

17,000--- The Rediscovery of Man, under the Instrumentality of Mankind.
"The Ballad of C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith
"Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" by Cordwainer Smith
NORSTRILIA--- by Cordwainer Smith.

22,500--- Expected arrival of the Core Wave Front. End of most life in Known Space..... presumably. (Actually though the remaining aliens flee, and most alien nonsentient life is wiped out, humanity survives, either through force shield technology or using faster-than-light travel to evacuate worlds as the wavefront passes by.)

23,290-96--- DUNE by Frank Herbert.

23,308-23,309 --- DUNE MESSIAH by Frank Herbert.

26,716 --- GOD-EMPEROR OF DUNE by Frank Herbert.

31,900--- Trantorian Empire starts to expand.

31,957--THE GRAY PRINCE, by Jack Vance.

> 34,573-78 ----STAINLESS STEEL RAT SAVES THE WORLD by Harry Harrison.

37,100 ---"Planet of Evil", 4th Dr. Who. The TARDIS picks up a distress signal, and The Doctor diverts the ship to investigate. He and Sarah arrive on Zeta Minor, which is being explored by a survey team led by Professor Sorensen. All but Sorensen have been killed, but their signal has been picked up by a Morestran Probe ship commanded by Controller Salamar and first officer Vishinsky. The Doctor learns the team has found a gateway to an anti-matter dimension, and have taken samples. The deaths have been caused by an anti-matter being which is trying to recover the material. Sorensen, who's convinced that he's found a major new energy source for his people, refuses to give up the samples, but the being won't let the ship leave. The Doctor convinces the Morestrans to give the material back, and the ship takes off, but is pulled back because Sorensen has kept a sample. It's infected him, and he mutates into an anti-matter being, which splits into duplicates after Sorensen is shot with a neutron accelerator by Salamar, who's cracked under the strain. With help from Vishinsky and Sarah, The Doctor overcomes Sorensen and takes him back to Zeta Minor in the TARDIS. The anti-matter creature cures Sorensen, and The Doctor suggests he try an alternative energy source, the kinetic motion of planets, to solve the Morestrans' problems.

38,700--- THE STARS LIKE DUST by Isaac Asimov

39,900-Birth of (Trantorian) Galactic Empire. (I.E., the first time it encompassed the Galaxy.)

40,727--- PEBBLE IN THE SKY by Isaac Asimov.
Arrival of Joseph Schwartz on far-future, radioactive Earth.

51,900 ---FOUNDATION by Isaac Asimov begins.
Death of Hari Seldon

51,945--- FOUNDATION---Salvor Hardin.

52,215---SECOND FOUNDATION by Isaac Asimov begins...the stopping of the Mule by the Second Foundation.

51,398 ---FOUNDATION'S EDGE by Isaac Asimov

51,399--- FOUNDATION AND EARTH by Isaac Asimov.

82,000. GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. Space travel resumes.

85,271--- DC One Million---Justice Legion A

100,000. RING by Stephen Baxter. Human assaults on Xeelee concentrations begins.

200,000 A,D,--the STAR KINGS by Edmond Hamilton.

202,000. RETURN TO THE STARS by Edmond Hamilton. The Empire battles the Dark Worlds.

204,001-205,000--- The time-travelling Neldorians seek to change history, and clash with the Time Patrol. (See the Time Patrol series by Poul Anderson.)

657,208. THE TIME SHIPS by Stephen Baxter. The Morlock civilization. (Supposedly a deviant timeline from THE TIME MACHINE...but could the Morlocks have fooled the Time Traveller in that regard?

802,701--- Eloi and Morlocks, the TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.

1 million A.D.---RING by Stephen Baxter. Xeelee final defeat of humans

1 million A.D.. CITY AND THE STARS, by Arthur C. Clarke. Humans colonized the galaxy.

2 million A.D. ---WIND WHALES OF ISHMAEL by Philip Jose Farmer.

3 million A.D.. CITY AND THE STARS by Arthur C. Clarke. Invaders enter Galaxy. Defeat humans.

4 million. RING by Stephen Baxter. Destruction of Ring by photino birds.

5 million. RING by Stephen Baxter. Last humans return to solar system in GUT ship.

10 million---THE STONE GOD AWAKENS by Philip Jose Farmer.

10 million. RING by Stephen Baxter. Extinction of baryonic life, supposedly.

40 million--GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND, by Brian Aldiss. The end of the Dark Millennia.

100 million CITY AND THE STARS by Arthur C. Clarke. Humanity confined to a few cities: Diaspar

1 billion. THE CITY AND THE STARS by Aruthr C. Clarke. Human interstellar civilization.

1 billion. GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. Human extinction across galaxy. (Actually, near-extinction.)

1.5 billion. THE CITY AND THE STARS by Arthur C. Clarke . Humans create incorporeal beings.

2 billion A.D.--- THE CITY AND THE STARS by Arthur C. Clarke. Alvin leaves Diaspar. (Perhaps the Eloi and the Morlocks were a passing subspecies, and humanity returned to reclaim their home planet yet again? Diaspar is the oldest city on Earth, a billion years old.)

2 billion A.D.--- The death of one branch of the human race on Neptune, as shown in LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon.

7.5 billion. CITY AT WORLD'S END by Edmond Hamilton. Middletown propelled into future.

17 billion. THE CITY AND THE STARS by Arthur C. Clarke. Mad Mind battles Vanamonde.

20 billion A.D. DARK IS THE SUN by Philip Jose Farmer.

1500 trillion. RING by Stephen Baxter. Stars evaporate from galaxies.

Where works such as Zothique, the Dying Earth, Dancers at the End of Time, and the Nightlands fall in this later timeline I leave for others to debate.

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