A more recent story involving travel to the future is Louis-Sébastien Mercier's "L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fût jamais" ("The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Were One"), a utopian novel in which the main character is transported to the year 2440.
Drugi zelo stari primer te vrste se lahko najde v Talmudu z zgodbo o Honiju ha-M'agelu, ki je odšel spat za 70 let in se prebudil v svetu, kjer so bili njegovi vnuki stari starši, vsi njegovi prijatelji in družina pa pokojni.