Having just started to explore space, we have written and made films about what man’s future in space will look like. Did Old World writers of the 15th and 16 centuries write fiction speculating about the future of the New World? Was there a Star Trek in the 1400s?

by ma5terchief999
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While you wait, you may be interested this answer from /u/sunagainstgold (About the 17th and 18th centuries)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3vovzs/before_around_1700_where_there_any_books_or_plays/

And this one for the middle ages:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3qafud/how_did_people_in_the_middle_ages_view_the/