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in fictiontime The future is way behind schedule, at least according to the Big Three science fiction writers whom I grew up reading. Those would be Robert Heinlein , Arthur C. Clarke , and Isaac Asimov . You see, while the timeline of Henlein’s famous Future History series imagines the first Moon landing (1976) a little later than in reality, he thought we would have spread throughout the Solar System by now. His Future History stories, mostly written during the 1940s, imagines that triumphant humanity would have established a thriving city on the Moon and colonies on Mars