Every world

Every row opens the full dossier: what the place is like to live in, who holds power, what the technology does and conspicuously refuses to do, where to begin, and which other worlds it genuinely connects to. The bar is where its charted time sits against today.

On today's timeline

Real events that touch these worlds. Each one is marked on the today line, where a fiction's future and our present meet.

Moments

About this atlas

Every one of these histories converges on today

Twenty-four science-fiction worlds, each pinned to the real calendar rather than its own. Every one of them rode along our history, broke away at one dated moment, and is drawn right up to the line where we are now. Grouped by how they break with us rather than by genre — because that is what decides whether a world is hiding underneath this one, downstream of a war we won, or waiting ten thousand years ahead.

How this was built, and what to distrust

The conversion problem. Only some of these fictions date themselves in real years. Everything else had to be converted. Read those positions as projections, not recorded history.

The axis is warped. The scale is a symmetric log: it stretches the centuries around now and compresses deep time. Year labels are exact; spacing is not.