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It is only superficially paradoxical that most novels about the future are narrated in the past tense. Michael Frayn's A Very Private Life (1968) starts in the future tense ("Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber") but he can't keep it up for long, and soon shifts into the present tense. ◎To enter into the imagined world of a novel we have to orientate ourselves in space and time with the characters, and the future tense makes that impossible. The past tense is "natural" for narrative; even the use of the present tense is somewhat paradoxical, since anything that has been written down has by inference already happened.
* David Lodge, The Art of Fiction
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