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How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...

Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020

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To continue the entirely lacking in jollytude theme, Stephen King's "The Running Man" is set in 2025, and Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" in 2021. I believe "A Boy and His Dog" was mentioned recently. Not quite sure as to the timeline, but I think the Terminator and wozzisname in the first movie get sent back from 2020 or thereabouts?

On a somewhat more optimistic note, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy kicks off in 2026, although most of it is set much further into the future.

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