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Books that seem like they’re set in the past but are actually in the future?

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I read The Second Sleepby Robert Harris during Covid, and it's one of the few books I've read where it seems initially like it's set in the year 1468, but it's soon revealed (through a complete subversion of expectation) that it's actually set in the distant future after an apocalyptic event that wiped out humanity [...]

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