ENTER: SF&F Avatar Contest - "The Future Was Now"

[Aragorn]

Hopefully I can explain this clearly. Anything that is set in the future, but one that we've already lived through, and where the fiction didn't match our eventual reality. For example, the future of Back to the Future Part II takes places in 2015 but there are many things in that movie that obviously don't exist yet.

Basically, anything depicting a future "through 2015" that is now extremely dated, still not possible or hasn't happened yet.

 

[Klaus]

 

[Saga]

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

 

[od0_ital]

May have to sit this one out...everything I can think of is still a few years away...

 

[Aragorn]

May have to sit this one out...everything I can think of is still a few years away...

When I was thinking this up, the first thing that came to mind was Johnny Mnemonic with their VCRs and the data storage space in his head that would be just one flash drive today, but that movie takes place in 2021.

The older the sci-fi is, the more likely it is we've already passed the date of their future, like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's deep space exploration and nuclear war of the 1980s.

 

[Chris3123]

"You bubble-headed booby!"

 

[Orac]

This one kind of has happened. I'll let Aragorn make the call if it's eligible or not.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Fun theme idea!

- Timecop, set in... 2004.

Unless, of course, we've actually had time travel for over a decade, and the government just doesn't want us to know...

 

[Aragorn]

The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William "Buck" Rogers, are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems, and returns Buck Rogers to Earth, 500 years later.

 

[Showdown]

sorry, 2012 is not sci-fi. I'll think of another one.

 

[Showdown]

Holographic girlfriend from 6th Day (2000)
Plus the movie has human clones with implanted memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwTcfwbrNO4

 

[Chris3123]

The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William "Buck" Rogers, are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems, and returns Buck Rogers to Earth, 500 years later.

I can't believe I didn't think of Buck Rogers. Especially since it featured one my all time favorite sci-fi themes (especially the full version with lyrics from the pilot).

 

[Avro Arrow]

sorry, 2012 is not sci-fi. I'll think of another one.

Really? Because I'm sure that most of its science was entirely fictional!

(But in all seriousness... how is it not sci-fi?)

 

[Klaus]

^^I'd think the giant survival arks alone would qualify it.

 

[Aragorn]

Anymore entries?

 

[Showdown]

I'm changing my entry to back to 2012.

Thanks for allowing this.

Here is CPG Grey's video on why the 2012 prediction is wrong.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcc_KAhwpa0[/yt]

 

[Avro Arrow]

Anymore entries?

Oh, there was still another show I was hoping would make an appearance! Can I enter two?

 

[Aragorn]

Anymore entries?

Oh, there was still another show I was hoping would make an appearance! Can I enter two?

Tell some avatar contest regs who haven't entered yet to submit it.

You can enter a second time but only if everyone else does too.