This series explores a hitherto unidentified type of narrative: Future Narratives. Future
Narratives preserve essential aspects of future time namely its openness and undecidedness.
They do this by operating with nodes as their basic unit situations that allow for more than
one continuation. Future Narratives can be found in print in film in video games in
scenarios of world climate change and in other simulations of future trends. Cutting across
all media and genre classifications this burgeoning corpus still lacks a theory and a poetics.
This series offers both and detailed case studies.
