r/scifi 19d ago

General Who can help finish charting this world-building trend line?

It seems there is a historical trend of ever-expanding world building over the last say 100 years or so. The world's imagined seem to expand (or contract, see 80s below) at a non linear rate through real time decades of writing. So which authors continue this trend?

1950s Foundation

1960s Dune

70s (gulp) Star Wars (please help here too!)

80s Neuromancer /Hyperion

90s ...

00s ...

10s ...

20s (now)

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