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The Future, Foretold: Sci‑Fi That Predicted Our World
From the internet and social media to surveillance states and algorithmic politics, these books imagined the future—and many of their “what ifs” became “right now.”
Neuromancer
William Gibson, 1984
The Circle
Dave Eggers, 2013
Infomocracy
Malka Older, 2016
1984
George Orwell, 1949
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, 1953
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, 1968
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson, 1992
The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster, 1909
Paris in the Twentieth Century
Jules Verne, 1994
The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner, 1975
§ About this list
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1909–2016
- Average rating
- 4.0 / 5 across 14,539 ratings
- Genres
- Dystopian, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction
Most-rated on The Future, Foretold: Sci‑Fi That Predicted Our World
- 11984 · George Orwell
- 2Fahrenheit 451 · Ray Bradbury
- 3Neuromancer · William Gibson
Common questions about The Future, Foretold: Sci‑Fi That Predicted Our World
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- The Future, Foretold: Sci‑Fi That Predicted Our World has 10 books, published between 1909 and 2016.
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- 1984 by George Orwell is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,983 ratings and a 4.2 average.