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Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 10:20 pm**

Why would a writer choose to open a book written in, say, 2007 with this:

"It was the year 2034".

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 10:56 pm**

Perhaps the author wished to convey that the book was ostensibly written after 2034, creating a Sci-Fi world in which the future future is looking back on the past future.

Posted: **Thu May 17, 2007 3:28 am**

I'm with lucy. Are the next sentences past tense also? Did the author write the story looking back on what had happened?

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