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* Hari Seldon from [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]]'' series recorded a series of messages to be played each time the Foundation hit one of the mathematically predicted "Seldon Crises". Even the first one was revealed decades after his death.

** Due to that formula, they consist of stunningly accurate predictions of the future, leading up to one of the classic [[Oh Crap]] Moments in sci-fi literature, Seldon listing off events that aren't occurring. Don't worry, though, [[There Is Another|there is a Second Foundation...]].

* A straight example occurs in the second book in the ''Looking Glass Wars'' series, where Hatter comes across a message which his former lover, Weaver, left him in case she died before they could meet again (which she obviously did... or did she?).

* This appeared in ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy|I, Jedi]]'', a [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel featuring Corran Horn, whose father, secretly the son of a Jedi, had died years before, and left a holographic message for him. It started with the "My hope is that we're watching this together..." variant, and the thought that they'd be laughing at how young he looked.