near future

• imminentAbout to occur
• upcomingSoon to occur
• soonIn brief time
• approachingComing toward something
• horizonApparent earth-sky meeting

tomorrow · prospect · anticipation · looming · impending · shortly · around the corner · forecast · planning · next week · eventual · oncoming · brewing · waiting · expectation · dawn · threshold · brink

• time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
• speculative fictionsci-fi, science fiction, dystopia, fantasy, futurism
• future timestomorrow, soon, later, eventually, someday
• temporal settingspast, present, future, ancient times, Renaissance
• Cli-Ficli-fi, climate fiction, climate disaster, eco-fiction, ecofiction
• verb tensespast tense, present tense, future tense, past, present