20th Century Fiction that Eerily Predicted the Future

20^th Century Fiction that Eerily Predicted the Future

If you think tales of horror are scary, take a look at some of these old world fiction novels that predicted the future!

Some may say that these early works of fiction predicted the future, others will say that the future was influenced by these books. Whichever outlook that you choose, the books below were published years before their ideas became reality.

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Year Published/Year it came to be           

Title/Author/Prediction

1949/2000s   

                    1984 By George Orwell : Big Brother (surveillance)

1932/1950    

                             Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : Psychiatric Drugs

1818/1954      

      Frankenstein By Mary Shelley: Organ Transplants (the first a kidney according the United Network for Organ Sharing)

1953/1964  

   Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury : Flat screen TVs and Earbuds

1888/1966   

   Looking Backward By Edward Bellamy : Debit Cards

1914/1945 

    The World Set Free by H.G.Wells : Atomic Bombs

1911/1974

   Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle By Victor Appleton : The Taser

1726/ 1877

  Gulliver’s Travels By Jonathan Swift : Mars has two moons

1961/1971   

Stranger in a Strange Land By Robert Heinlein : Waterbeds

                      

1984/1990

                         Neuromancer By William Gibson : The World Wide Web

1898/1912 

 The Wreck of the Titan or Futility By Morgan Robertson : eerily predicts the sinking of the Titanic with details too close to what really happened.

1923/1992

 Men Like Gods By H.G. Wells : Wireless communication (text message (1992) email (1971) See other forms of wireless communication here