"Goon Squad," a Proustian meditation on rock music and lost time, hopscotched through the past, the present, and the future, switching protagonists and voices with each chapter.
While Half-Life 2 takes the player through a dystopian future as protagonist Gordon Freeman, Concerned follows a similar path through the eyes of Gordon Frohman, a hapless, lethally clumsy oaf who arrives in the setting of the game a few weeks before Freeman.
For these reasons, readers who want happy endings and a story that ends in hope and the promise of a better future for the protagonists, this isn't one for you.
Adapted from the Rick Yancey science fiction novel, and featuring a female teen protagonist, future dystopia, alien invasion and two appealing romantic options for our heroine, The 5th Wave appeared to have all the elements needed to connect it with the tween and early-teen girl audience that has proved so crucial to the success of franchises such as Twilight, The Hunger Games and Divergent.
Better Publications followed up the magazine launch with a companion comic, Startling Comics, which appeared in May 1940; Captain Future was the protagonist of the lead story.
A sly reference to the musings of Sherlock Holmes and a mystery that leads inextricably to the future of the protagonist, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is the title of a 2003 novel by Mark Haddon.
That leaves us dreaming of the autonomous car seen in science fiction movies like "Minority Report," "Judge Dredd" and "I, Robot," which all cast protagonists riding future freeways with no hands.
In the case of the Girlfriend Experience, Starz's drama about the inner life of a high-class escort based on the Steven Soderbergh film of the same name, it's a career choice made to facilitate the protagonist's future profession.
To raise interest and support, he is pursuing various academic collaborations and is looking for a publisher for the first of a planned science fiction trilogy for young adults he has written called The Moral Order, featuring a dystopian future in which the protagonist discovers a hidden underwater world. .
Schein takes this trend to its extreme, exploring a future in which her protagonist, Katexa, is one "the last humans to defy the ocean's relentless advance," along with her family.
