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The ''Future History'', by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century. The term ''Future History'' was coined by John W. Campbell, Jr. in the February 1941 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. Campbell published an early draft of Heinlein's chart of the series in the March 1941 issue.〔(Robert A. Heinlein: The Future History Chart )〕 Heinlein wrote most of the ''Future History'' stories early in his career, between 1939 and 1941 and between 1945 and 1950. Most of the ''Future History'' stories written prior to 1967 are collected in ''The Past Through Tomorrow'', which also contains the final version of the chart. That collection does not include ''Universe'' and ''Common Sense''; they were published separately as ''Orphans of the Sky''. The ''Future History'' was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966, along with the ''Barsoom'' series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the ''Lensman'' series by E. E. Smith, the ''Foundation'' series by Isaac Asimov, and ''The Lord of the Rings'' series by J. R. R. Tolkien, but lost to Asimov's ''Foundation'' series. 〔 〕 ==Definition== For the most part, ''The Past Through Tomorrow'' defines a core group of stories that are clearly within the ''Future History'' series. However, Heinlein scholars generally agree that some stories not included in the anthology belong to the ''Future History'' series, and that some included are only weakly linked to it. James Gifford〔 ; Gifford, ''Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion'', 2000, pp. 11–16.〕 adds ''Time Enough for Love'', which was published after ''The Past Through Tomorrow'', and also "Let There Be Light", which was not included in ''The Past Through Tomorrow'', possibly because the collection editor disliked it or because Heinlein himself considered it to be inferior. However, he considers ''Time Enough for Love'' to be a borderline case. He considers ''The Number of the Beast'', ''The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'', and ''To Sail Beyond the Sunset'' to be too weakly linked to the ''Future History'' to be included. Bill Patterson〔Usenet posting on rec.arts.sf.written, 10/19/06 07:15, "Re: definition of Heinlein's ''Future History''"〕 includes ''To Sail Beyond the Sunset'', on the theory that the discrepancies between it and the rest of the ''Future History'' are explained by assigning it to the same "bundle of related timelines" in the World as Myth multiverse. However, he lists a number of stories that he believes were never really intended to be part of ''Future History'', even though they were included in ''The Past Through Tomorrow'': "Life-Line" (which was written before Heinlein published the Future History chart), "The Menace from Earth", "We Also Walk Dogs", and the stories originally published in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' ("Space Jockey", "It's Great to Be Back!", "The Green Hills of Earth", and "The Black Pits of Luna"). He agrees with Gifford that "Let There Be Light" should be included. The story "—And He Built a Crooked House—" was included only in the pre-war chart and never since. The Heinlein juveniles do not hew closely to the ''Future History'' outline. Gifford states that "Although the twelve juvenile novels are not completely inconsistent with the ''Future History'', neither do they form a thorough match with that series for adult readers. It is not often recognized that they are a reasonably consistent 'Future History' of their own... At least one major story specified in the ''Future History'' chart, the revolution on Venus, ended up being told in the framework of the juveniles as ''Between Planets''."〔Gifford, ''Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion'', 2000, p. 24〕 The novel ''Variable Star'', written by Spider Robinson from Heinlein's detailed outline, incorporates some elements of both the ''Future History'' (such as references to Nehemiah Scudder) and the universe of the Heinlein juveniles (for example, torch ships and faster-than-light telepathic communication between twins). The adult short story "The Long Watch", included in ''Future History'' story collections, connects to ''Space Cadet'' through the character of (John) Ezra Dahlquist, the central character of the first, memorialized in the second.〔Gifford, p. 116〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Future History (Heinlein)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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