Anticipation is a cinematic or literary genre in which the stories take place in a (relatively) near future and where the authors imagine future by extrapolating some of our society’s characteristics (militarism, overpopulation, pollution, war, terrorism…)
Exemples :
- Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Hot Sky at Midnight, by Robert Silverberg
- Soylent Green, by Richard Fleisher