The sky lords and the Eloi

In John Brosnan's 1989–91 far-future post-disaster trilogy The Sky Lords,[1] the Eloi is a term for a small group of "genetically-enhanced humans of indeterminate sex".[2]

Plot

The story is set in the future, after the 'Gene Wars' have turned the Earth into a blighted wasteland. The inhabitants of Earth live a tribal-like existence and offer tributes to the Sky Lords. The Sky Lords live in giant airships and are the rulers of the people below. The protagonist (Jan Dorvin) is taken as a slave by the Sky Lords when her people rebel against their masters. The novel follows her fight for freedom and her relationship with Milo, a genetically altered survivor of the Gene Wars.

I am asking myself if "We are watching a movie" means that the present we are experiencing is the actually the past!?

Were these book authors and screenwriters so visionary or did they just know!?