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Admittedly most Science Fiction stories are set in the future but they could be (and have been) set in all possible variations of the chronological scale.

  • In the past
  • In the present
  • 'sideways in time'
  • 'Under time'
  • 'Over time'
  • suspended in time
  • and complete over-view of time
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