A forgotten Victorian novel written by a little-known author that is being auctioned off in Scotland has been discovered, upon closer reflection, to have “accurately predicted the invention of flat-screen televisions, bullet trains and digital watches,” reports Claire Smith in a story for The Scotsman. The book, a sci-fi tale called Golf in the Year 2000, was written in 1892 by Jay McCullough, “follows the tale of avid 19th-century golfer Alexander J Gibson, who falls into a deep sleep on 24 March 1892 and wakes up Rip Van Winkle-style on 25 March 2000 to find a world transformed. Television, superfast trains, digital watches and female emancipation are all predicted in the tale, which envisages a world of leisure where golf is paramount.” Smith reports that little is known about the author except that he “wrote only one other book, a golf instruction manual.”