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unusual facts about The Distant Future


When the Leaves Blow Away

I Still Have a Pony was nominated for a Grammy Award but it lost to The Distant Future by Flight of the Conchords.



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Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

Haegemonia takes place in the distant future where humanity has colonized the solar system and tensions are high between the World Government of Earth and colonial Mars.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space (with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points), and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance.

The Chaos Engine

A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in England of the late 1800s, and his technology came into the hands of the Royal Society led by Baron Fortesque (based upon Charles Babbage), a grand inventor.

The Sandkings

The action of the original story Sandkings by George R. R. Martin takes place in the distant future on a far planet colonized by humans.