🪐 Dystopian & Sci-Fi Visions Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (24 Entries)

1. [1516] Thomas More — He authored the seminal work Utopia in 1516, presenting an idealistic vision of political organization on an imaginary island.
2. [1804] Claude Nicolas Ledoux — In 1804, he published a collection of his designs under the title L'Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de la législation (Architecture considered in relation to art, morals, and legislation).
3. [1851] Mary Shelley — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
4. [1858] Simon Newcomb — Though Newcomb had little conventional schooling, he completed a Bachelor of Science at Harvard in 1858.
5. [1920] Karel Čapek — (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot.
6. [1925] Olaf Stapledon — Stapledon was awarded a PhD degree in philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 1925 and used his doctoral thesis as the basis for his first published prose book, A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929).
7. [1950] George Orwell — Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.
8. [1950] L. Ron Hubbard — A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored the pseudoscientific book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations to promote and practice Dianetics techniques.
9. [1959] Ursula K. Le Guin — Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books.
10. [1960] Ed Wood — In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographic films such as The Sinister Urge (1960), Orgy of the Dead (1965) and Necromania (1971), and wrote over 80 lurid pulp crime and sex novels.
11. [1963] John Pilger — In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.
12. [1968] Arthur C. Clarke — Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.
13. [1976] Stanisław Lem — In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
14. [1979] Frank Miller — He wrote Daredevil from 1979 to 1983, and again in 1986, with the Daredevil: Born Again arc.
15. [1979] Haruki Murakami — Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe, before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after owning a small jazz bar for seven years.
16. [1980] Carl Sagan — He co-wrote and narrated the 1980 documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been seen by at least 500 million people in 60 countries and won two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.
17. [1984] Gene Wilder — Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984).
18. [1984] Iain Banks — Banks commenced full-time writing following the considerable success of his debut novel, The Wasp Factory, published in 1984.
19. [1987] Orson Scott Card — Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2026).
20. [1997] James Cameron — He directed, wrote, co-produced, and co-edited the historical romance epic Titanic (1997), winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing.
21. [2004] Um Tae-hwa — Around the time of his graduation in 2004, Um shared his desire to make films with a professor, who introduced him to Lee Seung-chul, a simultaneous sound recordist and director Park Chan-wook's staff.
22. [2005] Kazuo Ishiguro — Time named Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
23. [2009] Guillermo del Toro — With Chuck Hogan, del Toro also co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), later adapted into a comic-book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17).
24. [2015] David Graeber — In parallel, he developed critiques of bureaucracy and managerialism in contemporary capitalism, published in The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs (2018).