I don't mean like Buck Rogers or anything that involves the protagonist from the past must become the saviour of the future. I mean the protagonist used the rule the world with an iron fist, freezes himself in case he's ever needed again but wakes up too far into the future, discovering an immediate society that's way less technologically advanced and the actual state of the world is ambigious but some are able to prosper without his rule, and no living being gives a shit about him. A god in the past becomes a nobody in the future.
I know what kind of story I want to write but need some literature to draw influence from, not just stuff from the visual medium.
by StevemacQ