History Main / ToTheFutureAndBeyond

** Travel thousand of years ahead, and humanity begins to be more and more altered; life extension and the digital preservation of deceased minds are common. A thousand years in the future, the Solar System is a patchwork of human and posthuman nations. Ten thousand years hence, its worlds are ruled by a cruel despot.

** Hundreds of millions of years from now, humanity and metahumanity are gone, but new life inhabits Earth. In 100 million years, androids, beast-men and stranded aliens live in barbaric societies amidst the ruins of ancien technology and ancient, mad machines on a new supercontinent and on the terraformed Solar worlds. 500 million years hence, new intelligences evolve from far-future animals in a primitive Earth under a tired Sun. A billion years from now, the Solar System is an interstellar hub for travelers, criminals and scoundrels from countless alien races.

* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'': Time travel is a dodgy proposition, since tripes to the same era doesn't reliably bring you to the same events, but a general progression of epochs is established as the most common destinations that time-travellers find themselves in:

Contrary to [[Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise certain well-regarded opinions]], there is ''always'' more of the future. Did you visit [[Film/DemolitionMan 2032]], taste a ratburger, and even learn how to use the seashells? Why stop there? Why not take a jaunt to [[Franchise/StarTrek the 23rd century]], stow away aboard a starship and seek out new life and new civilizations? Or skip ahead a few millennia, enlist in the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Imperial Guard]] and fight for the glory of the God-Emperor of Mankind? Just be careful you don't go too far, or else [[Series/DoctorWho you might run into malicious little transhumans in flying capsules festooned with all kinds of lethal gadgetry...]]

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* In ''Theatre/TheTragedyOfMan'', first staged in 1861, Lucifer sends Adam travelling through time to show him the horrors of history in order to convince him that humans can never escape their base natures. After a trip to the 19th century London, the play jumps forward to what playwright Imre Madach believed the 20th century would be like... then travels to a distant ice age that is at least four millennia into our future.

* In the Creator/PoulAnderson novel ''There Will Be Time'', the protagonist travels forward in time, beyond the Maurai Federation's rise and fall to a future in which his own long-term programs have paid off: humans have made contact with extraterrestrial beings and are assimilating into a broader galactic culture with the help of experienced human space travelers and time travelers.

* ''The Man Who Awoke'' series -- published in 1933 on ''Wonder Stories'' -- is about Norman Winters, who invents a technology for suspended animation and visits the years 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 and 25,000 A.D. The last episode starts with the discovery of immortality in the year 25,000, which obviates the need for suspended animation, and covers several million years.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' had you travel from the present to the past, the prehistoric past, the bleak future, and way way to the future down to the End of Time itself.

* ''VideoGame/TheSilentAge'': The player quickly gets used to travel some 40 years into the future, but Joe's final destination is more impressive. It's vaguely described as "hundreds, maybe thousands of years in the future", and is apparently as far as the time machine would allow. Worth mentioning, the trope isn't played straight and that's well justified: the farther you go, the more imprecise and unstable everything gets (like, the location of arrival and such). Travelling as far as Joe eventually does, even destroys his time machine.

* ''ComicBook/NathanNever'': ''Double Future'', a special issue, features an inversion of sorts where two different futures come visit the "present". Two {{Cyborg}} killers arrive in the protagonist's time to turn the tide against humans in the RobotWar they are fighting in their time. To do so, they need to kill a mysterious man whose memoirs are the main inspiration for humans in the war: as it turns out, said man comes from an even further, ''Franchise/StarTrek''-esque future and already knows the end of the war. On top of it all, since ''Natan Never'' is a sci-fi comic, the "present" of the protagonist is about two centuries in our own future.

** ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman'': Superman has travelled to the 1,020th century but he's unable to go back to the past because the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Time Trapper]] has blocked the timestream. Superman's only recourse is propelling further and further into the future until he stumbles upon a way back to his era.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/TauZero'' is essentially this trope turned UpToEleven '''IN SPACE!''', although with a single continuous travel instead of a number of discrete ones.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' already takes place in our future in the first place, but occasionally the crews have to deal with time travelers from even much farther away in the future. Some examples are the Vorgons from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' episode "Captain's Holiday", Captain Braxton and the time ship USS ''Relativity'' from ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'', or Daniels and his enemies in the Temporal Cold War from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. In the third season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', [[spoiler:to avert a galactic apocalypse, the titular ship and her crew take a one-way trip 930 years into the future, to the year 3189.]]

* ''Double Future'', a special issue of the Italian comic ''ComicBook/NathanNever'', features an inversion of sorts where two different futures come visit the "present". Two {{Cyborg}} killers arrive in the protagonist's time to turn the tide against humans in the RobotWar they are fighting in their time. To do so, they need to kill a mysterious man whose memoirs are the main inspiration for humans in the war: as it turns out, said man comes from an even further, ''Franchise/StarTrek''-esque future and already knows the end of the war. On top of it all, since ''Natan Never'' is a sci-fi comic, the "present" of the protagonist is about two centuries in our own future.
* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics:

** In ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman'', Superman has travelled to the 1,020th century but he's unable to go back to the past because the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Time Trapper]] has blocked the timestream. Superman's only recourse is propelling further and further into the future until he stumbles upon a way back to his era.
** Inverted in ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Superman gets trapped into a time-loop. Since he can't break it by time-travelling to the future, he decides to test Einstein's theory that time isn't linear but a full loop: he flings himself into the past and travels the entire timestream backwards until emerging one day after the time-loop.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily'' #200, Supergirl gets ambushed by a Time Beast as travelling across time. Her only way to escape is to fly towards the end of time where the Time Beast can't survive.
** Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague3000''. Supergirl gets trapped in an alternate, awful future where the Justice League is made up for half-assed, jerkass clones of the originals. When she asks if her rocketship can send her ''further'' into the future, she's told she's stuck.
** In ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', Kara travels several thousands of years into the future, instead of "just" to the 31st century, hoping to find a way to regain her powers.

* ''Fanfic/MaybeTheLastArchieStory'': As hunting down Doctor Doom -who has kidnapped Sabrina, built a time machine and escaped into the time stream-, Archie's gang end in the 29th Century.

* In ''Future Times Three'', by Creator/ReneBarjavel, the protagonists visit both the year 2052 -- where they witness the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt collapse of civilization]] -- and the year 100.000, where what's left of mankind has evolved into something unrecognizable. Some reconnaissance trips between the two ages help them understand how this evolution took place.

Some works treat "the future" as a brick wall: once you get there, you don't get to go any further. Others are well aware that once you introduce anything beyond the mundane present day, the sky's the limit (or, more accurately, the possible heat death of the universe).

** In ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman'', Superman has travelled to the 1,020th century but he's unable to go back to the past because the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Time Trapper]] has blocked the timestream. Superman's only resource is propelling further and further into the future until he stumbles upon a way back to his era.

* In ''Film/{{Millennium}}'', agents from the future (31st Century) are using desperate means to replace the dying human race with people abducted from the 20th century from airplanes just before they crash. Due to the deteriorating time line, however, the 31st Century is rocked by temporal distortions (or timequakes) which force the re-population effort to rely on their backup plan: send everyone into the far, far future. The fate of the main characters (and possibly humanity?) is represented by 1980s abstract visual effects.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' takes this to extremes not seen anywhere else. By which we mean that the Doctor has been to the ''end of the Universe'' on at least three separate occasions, just to start.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' already takes place in our future in the first place, but occasionally the crews have to deal with time travelers from even much farther away in the future. Some examples are the Vorgons from the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' episode "Captain's Holiday", Captain Braxton and the time ship USS ''Relativity'' from ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'', or Daniels and his enemies in the Temporal Cold War from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.