alternate future
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alternate future
(n.)
An alternative future.
An alternative future.
- 1941 A. Bester Probable Man Astounding S-F (July) № 89/2: He will always land in another of the infinite number of alternate futures coexisting.
- 1950 C. D. Simak Time Quarry Galaxy SF (Nov.) № 146/1: That meant that Asher Sutton could not, would not be allowed to die before the book was written. However it were written, the book must be written or the future was a lie. [...] Alternate futures?
- 1979 I. Asimov I. Asimov & M. H. Greenberg Isaac Asimov Presents Golden Years of SF (1983) № 194: "Greater Than Gods" is a non-series story about an alternate future.
- 1985 N. Spinrad Isaac Asimov's SF Mag. July № 181/1: But science fiction may be [...] set in any time, past, present, and future. Indeed, it may be and has been set even in alternate past and presents, and the same work may encompass several alternate futures.
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