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The "Joke" version of this page, from 1997,
predicting the decade 2000-2010
The Serious Version is here, below:
Executive Summary of the Decade
Astronomy and Space
Politics
Economics
Biology and Medicine
Other Science and Technology: Physics/Chemistry
Entertainment
Inventions and Innovations
Major Books of the Decade
Major Films of this Decade
Major Television of this Decade
Other Key Dates and Stories of this Decade
Major Writers Born this Decade {to be done}
Major Writers Died this Decade
Hotlinks to other Timeline pages of SF Chronology
Where to Go for More: 51 Useful Reference Books
Executive Summary of the Decade 2000-2010
The decade from 2000 to 2010 is not over yet, as I write this. But we can
already see that certain events and science fiction are already important.
The decade began with the "Y2K" panic that computers would malfunction
from side effects of the date change. This was one of the more expensive science
fictional ideas believed by over a hundred million people, yet never
happened. Cynics failed to note the dramatic commercialization and
penetration of World Wide Web culture, the explosion of genotechnology,
the first few million entertainment and household robots, the commercial
development of nanotechnology, and the culmination of the (robotic)
First Interplanetary Age of Exploration. Technically, the Voyager 1's
detection [November 2003] of the Transition Zone to the Heliopause
marks a start to the First Interstellar Age.
Astronomy and Space:
It became accepted, though puzzling, that the expansion of universe was
accelerating. Cosmic background radiation was discovered to be polarized
(2002). Solar Systems were discovered in greater and greater numbers
around nearby stars, including 55 Cancri, the first detected solar
system similar to our own. Many more moons were discovered in our own
solar system, mostly around Jupiter and Saturn. The Solar Neutrino puzzle
was considered solved (2002). Which came first: the first stars or the
first galaxies? This puzzle was solved by 2003. Also in 2003, the first
nearby (2 million light years away) dark matter galaxy was discovered, a
dim entity extremely deficient in stars, being composed primarily of
hydrogen gas, held in place by otherwise invisible dark matter.
The Science Story of the Year in 2003 was the view of the cosmos given by
the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Proble (WMAP) from which we determined
that the universe is 13.7 Billion years old, flat became transparent 200
million years after Big Bang, expands at 71 km/sec/megaprasec (Hubble's
Constant) and consists of 73% Dark Energy, 23% Dark Matter, and only 4%
ordinary matter.
The science story of 2004 was the proof that substantial bodies of salty
liquid water once existed on the surface of Mars.
China became the third country to put a human being in orbit [14 Oct 2003]
when 38-year-old Air Force officer Yang Liwei orbited 14 times in Shenzhou-5.
The Decade 2000-2010 included the International Space Station finally up
and running, but with a much-reduced crew and little purpose. The Russian
Mir space station was allowed to crash to Earth (22 Mar 2001). The American
Space Shuttle program halted for months after the tragic destruction on
reentry of the Columbia [Your Humble Webmaster had worked on half a dozen
different safety engineering programs for the Space Shuttle, and lost his
job over trying to get management to fix those problems].
Later (2003) was the closest encounter of Mars with Earth in roughly
60,000 years -- when Neanderthals co-existed with Homo Sapiens and Java Man.
Mars turned out (2002,2003) to be much wetter in the past and present than
previously believed.
The largest planetary object discovered since Pluto (1930) was found
(2002) four billion miles away, half the size of Pluto, and named Quaoar.
Then in 2004, an even larger object, Sedna, was discovered in an
elliptical orbits ranging from 8 billion to 80 billion miles from the
sun -- making it the first Oort Cloud palentoid detected.
An asteroid the size of a football field zoomed within 120,000 kilometers
of Earth, as we found (2002) three days later; and a closer near-miss was
in March 2004.
Far beyond Pluto, and 26 years after launch, the Voyager 1 spacecraft
seemed to have detected the Termination Shock. This was when the
1977-launched probe was over 8 billion miles from the sun, and approaching
the Heliopause: the boundary between the Solar Wind and the interstellar
medium. Some historians considered this [Nov 2003] the start of the First
Interstellar Age.
Data from satellites partly confirmed the theory of Global Warming. This
leads to a huge conference in Kyoto, that produced no clear results. The
northern part of the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed in Antarctica.
In April 2001 NASA launched the Mars Odyssey, which orbited the red planet
in October 2003, studied minerals from orbit, and radiation, then acted as
a communications relay for 5 years. The Stardust mission, launched
earlier (1999) first collected interstellar dust in 2000, flew past
asteroid 5535 AnneFrank in November 2002, encounted the comet P/Wild 2
in January 2004, and returned comet dust captured in aerogel by capsule to
Earth, in a capsule parachuted to Earth in 2006.
The European Space Agency launched Mars Express in June 2003, rom the
Russian's Baikonur, which arrived December 2003 and landed the Beagle 2
probe on Christmas 2003. Two Mars Expedition Rovers were launched by NASA
in 2003, which arrived in 4 January 2004. Spirit landed in Gusev crater,
to see if it was one a lake. The Opportunity rover explored the Meridiani
plain. Both found evidence that lakes or seas of liquid salty water once
graced the surface of Mars.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn in January 2004.
14 January 2004: Cassini's Huygens probe descends through the thick
atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon Tita, and spalshes down in the liquid
methane/ethane ocean.
In September 2003 the European Space Agency launched the miniaturized
SMART-1, whose solar-powered ion drive got it to lunar orbit in late 2004.
In February 2004, the European Space Agency launched Rosetta for rendezvous
with and landing on comet Churymov-Gerasmineko in November 2014.
March 2004's launch of Messenger resulted in flyby of Mercury in July 2007
and April 2008, with insertion into orbit around Mercury in April 2009.
September 2004 marked Japan's launch of the Lunar-A mission to orbit the
moon, and drop two penetrator probes.
December 2004 was the launch date for NASA's Deep Impact, which
rendezvoused with comet P/Tempel in July 2005, studying it and impacting
on its nucleus in August 2005.
August 2005 was NASA's launch of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which
reached Mars in March 2006, underwent 4-6 months aerobraking, and studied
the planet for a year with instruments including the Italian shallow
subsurface sounding radar (searching for water), then acting as a
communications link for later missions.
November 2005 was the launch of the European Space Agency's Venus Express,
which arrived at the clouded planet 153 days later.
In late 2005, Japan launched Selene, for a moon orbit mission and to
deploy a lunar relay satellite and a VLBI satellite.
Near Asteroid Prospector launched in 2006-2008, by the private company
SpaceDev.
At last, in January 2006, the New Horizons Pluto Juiper Belt Fly was
launched, with gravity assist at Jupiter in February 2007, for flyby of
Pluto and Charon in 2015, and then out into the Kuiper Belt for another
5-10 years of mission activity. Its survey of Pluto marked the end of the
First Interplanetary Age of Exploration, whereas the Second Interplanetary
Age of Exploration -- the one with people -- did not hit its stride until
the decades 2040-2060, overlapping the start of the First Interplanetary
Age of Colonization and start of the First Interstellar Age of Exploration.
May 2006 included the launch of NASA's Dawn mission, whose solar electric
ion propulsion brought it to asteroid 4 Vesta in July 2010, which it orbited
for 11 months, and then on to asteroid 1 Ceres in August 2014.
In 2007 Mars Phoenix was launched, and landed near the Martian North Pole,
where it dug, found ice, then baked it and soil in 8 tiny ovens to search
for organic compounds. Also in 2007, the French Space Agency CNES launched
a remote sensing Mars orbiter and four small "netlanders" with
communications link launched by the Italian Space Agency ASI.
February 2007 was the launch of Japan's Planet-C, which swung by Earth in
June 2008, and arrived at Venus in September 2009.
October 2007's NASA launch of Kepler began an intense search for Earth-like
planets circling other stars. Each time three transits (passages of such a
planet between Kepler and the planet's star) occurred, such a discovery
was announced, and later study detailed the orbit, the planet's size (from
brightness change), and temperature.
August 2009: European Space Agency luanch of BeppoColombo, which orbited
Mercury and landed a surface element module.
In later 2009 there were NASA launches to Mars of a Smart Lander and a
Long Range Rover, plus a synthetic aperture radar satellite codeveloped
with Italy.
The Mars 2011 Scout missions and the Jupiter Icy Moons orbiter, which
succesively orbited Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, using nuclear
propulsion to move through the deep gravity well of Jupiter, both belon to
another decade, and are not treated further on this web page.
Politics (World):
The trend towards increasing urbanization profoundly affected the
demographics and politics of the world. More than half of all human beings
lived in cities as of 2007, up from 48 percent in 2003. The world's urban
population was projected to rise from 3.3 billion in 2003, to 5.0 billion
in 2030. The global population in rural areas was projected to decline
from an estimated 3.3 billion in 2003 to 3.2 billion in 2030.
In 2015, according to the United Nations, the largest cities in the world,
by population, were:
Tokyo: 36 million (up from 35 million in 2007)
Mumbai [formerly Bombay]: 22.6 million
New Delhi: 20.9 million
The transition point was 2007, when, for the first time, the percentage
of the world's population living in cities exceeded the percentage living
in rural areas. The urban figure was "expected to exceed the 50 percent
mark by 2007, thus marking the first time in history that the world will
have more urban residents than rural residents." [Reuters, 25 Mar 2004]
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2000 went to Kim Dae-jung [born 1925], President
of South Korea, "for his work for democracy and human rights in outh Korea
and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North
Korea in particular."
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2001 went "for their work for a better organized
and more peaceful world", 1/2 to the United Nations [founded in 1945];
and 1/2 to Kofi Annan [born 1938], Ghana, Secretary General of the United
Nations.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 went to Jimmy Carter [born 1924], 39th
President of the United States of America, "for his decades of untiring
effort to find peacful solutions to international conflicts, to advance
democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social
development."
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 was announced 10 October 2003,
and went to Shirin Ebadi [born 1947] "for her efforts for democracy and
human rights" in Iran. She is a lawyer and human rights activist, with law
degree from the University of Tehran; president of the City Court of Tehran;
one of the first woman judges in Iran; was forced to resign after the 1979
revolution; now yeaches at the University of Tehran. She is widely
respected for her modern interpretation of Islamic law, enriching its
application to children's rights, women's rights, refugee rights;
democracy, equality under the law, religious frredom, and freedom of speech.
The Nobel Peace Prize leading contenders for 2004-2010 are:
{to be done}
Politics (USA Viewpoint):
This was the decade when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
were jet-bombed by terrorists on the unforgettable 9/11/2001.
In response, the United States and its allies (including Great
Britain, Australia, and Poland) overthrew and occupied Afghanistan and
Iraq. President Clinton's Vice President, Al Gore, won the popular vote
yet (due to voting chaos in Florida) lost the Presidency to George W. Bush,
son of President George H. W. Bush. Clinton's efforts to broker peace
between Israel and Palestine failed. A pair of snipers killed and killed
repeatedly in the Washington DC area. Milosevic was handed over the the
Hague (2001). The Space Shuttle Columbia died a firey death above the United
States (2003). In the 2004 Presidential election, the democrat Howard Dean
and the Republican incumbent George W. Bush were neck and neck, with
the tie broken by suspect Diebold Corporation voting machines, which kept things
tied up the U.S. Supreme Court for a second election in a row.
For examples of Politics at the World Level, see Economics
Economics:
The "Dot-Com Boom" and "Telecom Boom" in the stock markets crashed
dramatically, erasing over a trillion dollars in paper wealth. This dragged
the real economy of the United States into a recession, which did the world
economy no good. Your Humble Webmaster lost about a quarter of a million dollars
in stock value that he had earned over years of consulting. The recession
officially ended, but even afterwards there were 22 consecutive months of
job loss in the USA. Scandals rocked the economy with criminally bad news
from Enron (2002), Worldcom, and other giant firms with fraudulent
accounting. So much for Globalization and the New World Economic
Order in the first third of the decade. Then...
The following economically significant projects were completed 2005-2010:
2005:
- Large Hadron Collider, CERN, world's most powerful particle accelerator
- Shenzhen Western Corridor and Deep Bay, linking Hong Kong to Shekou
for roughly $10 Billion
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most complete sky map ever, all data
available on the Web, which added a million galaxies each night
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Playstation 3
2006:
- Oak Ridge's Spallation Neutron Source (world's #1 neutron diffraction facility)
- Betuweroute, a high-speed rail link connecting the West Coast of the
Netherlands with the German border
- Cologne's "New" Exhibition Centre
- Jeddah Airport Extension
- OSDF (Onsite Disposal facility) for radioactive wastes at Fernwald,
Southwest Ohio, where fissionables were made for weapons
2007:
- Shanghai World Financial Centre, the world's tallest building. taking
the record away from Taipei 101 (1676 feet) completed Oct 2003
- Hong Kong's Stonecutters Bridge, with a 1,000 meter span, the longest
stayed-cable bridge in the world
- Upgraded USA fleet of 31 U-2S high-altitude reconnaissance planes
- New Beijing International Airport
- CTRL: the fast Eurostar connection between London and the Chunnel
- Super Grid, the next-generation fiber-optic network for computerized e-science
2008:
- Reconstruction of Mariinski Theatre, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Capitol Complex Project, Washington, DC
- CCTV (Chinese Central TV) headquarters in Beijing
- NIF: National Ignition Facility, for Department of Energy, at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory: laser fusion
- Lotte World II, world's tallest building at 107 storeys and 1,620 feet,
in Pusan, South Korea
- 2nd Stage of Large Hadron Collider, CERN, world's most powerful particle accelerator
2009:
- 3 Gorges Dam Project, on the Yangtze River, China
- Bahrain International Airport
- Singori Nuclear Plant, South Korea
- 2nd building of New York's World Trade Center replacement (1776 feet)
2010:
- Bergama (Turkey) North Aegean Port
- Circle Line around Singapore
- Complete revision of the OED (Oxford English Dictionary). The original
OED was started in 1857 and completed (10 volumes) 71 years later. A
complete revision was completed in 1928, and then no more until 2010.
- Seoul-Pusan Bullet Train, Korea
- Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), $32 Billion, 21 dams plus 17
hydroelectric plants, which harnesses the upper reaches of the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers, and irrigates the semi-arid lands between them.
The "Nobel Prize" in Economics is more correctly called:
"The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel."
The "Nobel Prize" in Economics for 2000 went 1/2 to James J. Heckman
[born 1944] USA, University of Chicago, "for his development of theory and
methods for analyzing selective samples"; and 1/2 to Daniel F. McFadden
[born 1937], USA, University of California, Berkeley, "for his development
of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice."
The "Nobel Prize" in Economics for 2001 went "for their analyses of
markets with asymmetric information" 1/3 to George A. Akerlof [born 1940]
USA, University of California, Berkeley; 1/3 to A. Michael Spence [born
1943] USA, Stanford University, Stanford California; and 1/3 to
Joseph E. Stiglitz [born 1943], USA, Columbia University, New York.
The "Nobel Prize" in Economics for 2002 went 1/2 to Daniel Hahneman [born
1934 in Tel Aviv] Israel and USA, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey, "for having integrated insights from psychological research into
economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making
under uncertainty"; and 1/2 to Vernon L. Smith [born 1927], USA, George
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, "for having established laboratory
experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the
study of alternative market mechanisms."
The "Nobel Prize" in Economics for 2003 was announced 8 October 2003,
and went to 1/2 to Robert F. Engle [born 1942], New York University, USA,
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying
volatility (ARCH)" [where ARCH is an acronym for "autoregressive
conditional heteroskedacity"]; and 1/2 to Clive W. J. Granger [born 1934
in Wales], University of California at San Diego, USA, "for methods of
analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)."
The leading candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics for
2004-2010, by being 2003 Thomson ISI Citation Laureates, are:
Eugene F. Fama (Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance,
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago), and
Kenneth R. French (Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance,
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.)
"For their seminal contributions to understanding the relationship of
stock returns and business fluctuations."
or
Robert J. Barro (Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Senior Fellow of the
Hoover Institution, Stanford, California) "For his pioneering contributions
in empirical macroeconomics, ranging over many fields, but especially for
work in public debt in the 1970s."
or
Clive W. J. Granger (Department of Economics, University of California,
San Diego, La Jolla, California) and Robert F. Engle (Michael Armellino
Professor in the Management of Financial Services, New York University
Stern School of Business, New York, N.Y.) "For their development of
cointegration analysis, an essential technique of econometrics for
time-series studies and forecasting." [good prediction: they split the
2003 Nobel, and are thus ineligible for 2004-2010]
For a summary of employment figures for over 100 employment categories in
the United States, see:
The 2000-2010 Job Outlook in Brief
The occupations that were expected to grow fastest, or provide the most
jobs, were:
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Occupation Description %/number of jobs added Notes on prospects
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Computer & Information 48% / 150,000 Networks, e-commerce,
Systems Managers best for MBA degreed
or tech/people skilled
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Top Executives 15% / 464,000 Low turnover,
keen competition
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Public Relations 36% / 49,000 Specialists help
coroporations' customer
relations; keen competition
for entry-level jobs
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Social & Human Service 54% / 147,000 Aging population drives
Assistants demand; best odds for
post-secondary educated
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Software Engineers 95% / 664,000 Many businesses and
organizations adopt and
integrate new technologies
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Computer Support 92% / 677,000 Systems become more complex.
Specialists and Users need technical
Systems Administrators assistance
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Systems Analysts, 62% / 554,000 Computer/Data Storage
Computer Scientists, industry booms. Degrees
Database Administrators in CS, CE, or MBA help
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Teacher Assistants 24% / 301,000 Boom in special-needs stduents
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Teachers - 23% / 315,000 18-to-24-year-old enrollment
Postsecondary expands. Replacement for
teachers retiring. Keenest
competition: tenure-track.
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Teachers - Preschool, 15% / 571,000 Smaller class sizes,
Kingergarten, Elementary improving education,
middle and secondary replacement for
teachers retiring.
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Physician Assistants 53% / 31,000 Health services growth,
cost containment
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Registered Nurses 26% / 561,000 Technology, aging population,
preventative care
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Speech-language 40% / 40,000 Health services growth,
pathologists and more people surviving
audiologists strokes, more special
education
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Dental Hygienists 37% / 54,000 Demand growth, less done
by dentists. Part time
opportunities.
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Medical Records 49% / 66,000 More tests, treatments,
and Health Information and procedures watched
Technicians by third-party payers,
regulators, courts
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Pharmacy Technicians 36% / 69,000 More medications, aging
population, new tasks
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Building Cleaning 10% / 431,000 New office and other
Workers buildings; replacement
with high turnover
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Grounds Maintenance 27% / 304,000 Upkeep of landscaping
Workers and grounds; replacement
with high turnover
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Chefs, Cooks, and 12% / 345,000 Increasing population
Food Preparation and income brings more
Workers people dining out
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Food and Beverage 18% / 1,156,000 Increasing population
Food Preparation and income brings more
Workers people dining out;
high turnover; keenest
competition: fine dining
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Dental Assistants 37% / 92,000 Demand growth, less done
by dentists. More people
keep natural teeth.
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Medical Assistants 57% / 187,000 Growing/aging population;
technological advancement
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Nursing, Psychiatric 30% / 623,000 More long-term care
and Home Health Care
Aides
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Occupational Therapy 42% / 10,000 Aging/active population;
Assistants/Aides new treatments for
previously debilitating
diseases/conditions
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Phsyical Therapy 45% / 36,000 Aging/active population;
Assistants/Aides cost-conscious management
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Personal and Home Care 62% / 258,000 More older people; many
Aides needing assistance;
technology allows more home
care; efforts to shorten
hospitalization. High
turnover.
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Security Guards and 35% / 393,000 More private security
Gaming Surveillance replacing governmental
Officers duties; casino growth
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Cashiers 15% / 488,000 Increased demand for
goods and services;
high turnover
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Retail Salespersons 12% / 510,000 Population growth spurs
retail sales growth;
high turnover
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Desktop Publishers 67% / 25,000 Replaces typesetters,
compositors, for prepress
work
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Information and 20% / 1,000,000 Employment growth and
Record Clerks replacement of those who
leave the jobs permanently
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Customer Service 32% / 631,000 Customer Service improvements
Representatives in many organizations
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Receptionists and 24% / 256,000 Service Industry growth;
Information Clerks experience and variety helps
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Material Recording, 10% / 346,000 Varies by occupation;
Scheduling, Dispatching, replacement of those who
Distributing (nonpostal) leave the jobs permanently
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Office Clerks, 16% / 430,000 Employment growth;
General high turnover
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Secretaries and 7% / 265,000 Medical and Legal in
Administrative particular; plus
Assistants Executive assistants;
other area shrink through
office automation
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Material Moving 14% / 710,000 Expanding economy,
Occupations spending on infrastructure;
partly offset by increasing
automation
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Truckdrivers and 18% / 589,000 Increased freight and
Driver/Sales Workers packages
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
---------------------- ---------------------- ------------------
Biology and Medicine:
The Decade 2000-2010 included debate and protest over GM (Genetically
Modified) crops. A series of snail-mailings of Anthrax (fall 2001)
killed 5 people, emptied government buildings, and scared much of the
USA. Mad Cow disease hurt the beef industry in Europe. Cloning and stem
cell research advanced and were partially outlawed. A fossil skull found
(2001) in Chad (western central Africa) revised our ideas about human origins.
Robots were, for the first time (2002) controlled by direct brain to
computer interface. In 2003, the world's first brain prosthesis was
tested -- an artifical hippocampus hooked to slices of living rat brain.
The mouse genome was sequenced (2002). The genomes of mosquito and malarial
parasite were sequenced (2002). The rice genome was sequenced (2002). Both the
Chimpanzee and the Cow genome were sequenced in 2003. The differences between
Human and Chimp included genes for the membranes of the ears (presumably to give
people better hearing for language), hair growth, digestion (possibly for meat),
and smell. Yet the captive bonobo Kanzi made spoken demands for grapes and
bananas, showing that some non-humans share some of our language abilities.
A 125 million-year-old fossil was found (2002) in China
and declared the oldest ancestor known of the Placental mammals, which
comprise most living mammals. T Rex was shown to run much slower than in the
Jurassic Park movies. A clever crow in New Caledonia was observed (2002)
making and using tools. A new order of insects -- Gladiators -- were discovered
(2002), raising the total number of Orders of insects to 31. The
largest-ever squid was found in the3 Ross Sea off Antacrtica, with a
25-meter-long mantle (body) -- and it was determined to be a juvenile.
Capuchin monkeys demonstrated a sense of justice or fairness. The oldest
authenticated DNA (400,000 years) was recovered Siberian permafrost.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2000 went for "their
discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system",
1/3 to Arvid Carlsson [born 1923] Goteborg University, Sweden;
1/3 to Paul Greengard [born 1925] Rockefeller University, New York;
and 1/3 to Eric F. Kandel [born 1929 in Vienna, Austria] Columbia
University, New York.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2001 went for
"their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
1/3 to Leland H. Hartwell [born 1939], USA, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, Seattle, Washington; 1/3 to Tim Hunt [born 1943],
United Kingdom, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; and 1/3 to Sir Paul Nurse
[born 1949], United Kingdom, Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002 went
"for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development
and programmed cell death'" 1/3 to Sydney Brenner [born 1927 in Union of
South Africa], United Kingdom, the Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley,
California; 1/3 to Robert Horvitz [born 1947] M.I.T.; and 1/3 to
John E. Sulson [born 1942], United Kingdom, the Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2003 was announced
6 October 2003, went 1/2 to Paul C. Lauterbur [born 1929], Urbana,
Illinois, USA; and 1/2 to Peter Mansfield [born 1933], Nottingham,
England, "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging."
The leading candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for
2004-2010, by being 2003 Thomson ISI Citation Laureates, are:
Alfred G. Knudson Jr. (Senior Advisor to the President and Fox Distinguished
Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and
Bert Vogelstein (Professor of Oncology and Pathology with a Joint Appointment
in Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Mayland, and Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Investigator); and Robert A. Weinberg (Daniel K. Ludwig and American
Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and Member, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
"For the discovery and elucidation of the role of tumor suppressor genes in
oncogenesis."
or
Sir Michael J. Berridge, FRS (Deputy Scientific Director and Head, Molecular
Signaling, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom;
Honorary Professor of Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Yasutomi Nishizuka (President Emeritus of
Kobe University, Former Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry,
School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan) "For breakthrough contributions
in cell signaling that revealed two fundamental biochemical processes -
Berridge for research on the second messenger inositol trisphophate and
Nishizuka for the discovery and analysis of protein kinase C."
or
Francis S. Collins (Director, National Human Genome Research Institute,
Senior Investigator, Genome Technology Branch, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland) and Eric S. Lander (Professor of Biology, MIT,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for
Genome Research, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts) and
J. Craig Venter (President, The Center for Advancement of Genomics, Institute
for Biological Energy Alternatives, and Venter Science Foundation, Rockville,
Maryland) "For contributions to mapping the human genome."
Other Science and Technology: Physics/Chemistry
A new state of matter was produced in the laboratory (2002): Bose-Einstein
Condensate (first made 1995) was reversibly switched from superfluid to
patterned fluid. Light was stopped and stored in a crystal. Physicists
agreed that the Second Law of Thermodynamics could be violated on small
space-time intervals. Element 118 was dropped (2002) from the Periodic Table,
as its putative (1999) discovery was based on fraud. The coldest
temperature priduced in a Laboratory was reduced from a microkelvin (a
millionth of a degree above absolute zero, 1995) to half a nanokelvin (a
half of a Billionth of a degree above absolute zero, September 2003).
Another new state of matter: a Bose-Einstein Condensate of a molecule (a
diatomic metal gas) (November 2003).
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 went for "the discovery and
development of conductive polymers", 1/3 to Alan Heeger [born 1936],
now at the University of California, Santa Barbara; 1/3 to
Alan G. MacDiarmid [born 1927 in Masterton, New Zealand], now at the
University of Pennsylvania; and 1/3 to Hideki Shirakawa, University of
Tsukuba, Japan.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2001 went 1/4 to William S. Knowles
[born 1917], USA, for "work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions";
1/4 to Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Japan, for "work on chirally
catalysed hydrogenation reactions"; and 1/2 to K. Barry Sharpless [born
1941], the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, for "work on
chirally catalysed oxidation reactions."
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002, "for the development of methods for
identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules,"
went 1/4 to John B. Fenn [born 1917], Virginia Commonwealth University"
for the development of soft desorption ionisation methods for
mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules";
1/4 to Koichi Tanaka [born 1959], Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan,
"for the development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass
spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"; and 1/2 to
Kurt Wuthrich [born 1938], Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
and the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, "for his
development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the
three-dimensional structure of macromolecules in solution."
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 was announced 8 October 2003,
for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes", and went
1/2 to Peter Agre [born 1949], John Hopkins School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA "for discovery of water channels"; and 1/2
to Roderick MacKinnon [born 1954], Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the
Rockefeller University, New York, USA, "for structural and mechanistic
studies of ion channels."
The leading candidates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004-2010,
by being 2003 Thomson ISI Citation Laureates, are:
J. Fraser Stoddart (Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry,
University of California at Los Angeles); George M. Whitesides
(Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University); and
Seiji Shinkai (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Kyushu University, Graduate School of Engineering,
Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)
For "pioneering research in molecular self-assembly, which promises great
advances in the fabrication of nanoscale machinery and microelectronics."
or
K. C. Nicolaou (Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs
Professor in Chemical Biology and Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; and Professor of
Chemistry, University of California, San Diego) "for research in organic and
natural product synthesis, especially for achieving the total synthesis of
Taxol in 1994 and vancomycin in 1998-1999."
or
Robert H. Grubbs (Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California) "For breakthrough research in the design
and synthesis of complexes with useful catalytic actions, especially in
polymerization (the creation of so-called living polymers)."
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000 went 1/4 to Zhores I. Alferov [born 1930]
of Russia, for "basic work on information and communication technology";
1/4 to Herbert Kroemer [born 1928] of Germany, now at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, "for developing semiconductor heterostructures
used in high-speed and opto-electronics";
and 1/2 to Jack S. Kilby [born 1923] of Texas Instruments, USA, for his
part in inventing the Integrated Circuit.
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 went 1/3 to Eric A. Cornell [born 1961],
of the University of Colorado; 1/3 to Wolfgang Ketterle [born 1957],
of Germany, now at M.I.T.; and 1/3 to Carl E. Wieman [born 1951] of the
University of Colorado. All three were recognized "for the achievement of
Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early
fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates."
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 went 1/4 to Raymond Davis Jr.,
[born 1914], USA, at University of Pennsylvania, "for pioneering
contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic
neutrinos"; 1/4 to Masatoshi Koshiba, University of Tokyo, Japan,
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the
detection of cosmic neutrinos"; and 1/2 to Riccardo Giacconi [born 1931 in
Genoa, Italy], at Associated Universities, Inc., Washington, D.C.,
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which led to the discovery
of cosmic X-ray sources."
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 was announced 7 October 2003,
was for "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and
superfluids", and went to 1/3 to Alexei A. Abrikosov [born 1928], Moscow,
now Distinguished Argonne Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois,
USA, who extended the theory of Vitaly Ginzburg and others (Type I
superconductors), to the Type II Superconductors (at high temperatures
or magnetic fields); 1/3 to Vitaly L. Ginzburg [born 1916], Moscow, former
head of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow [who was not included in
the 3 who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for the "BCS" theory]; and
1/3 to Anthony J. Leggett [born 1938], London, Oxford, now MacArthur
Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, for
"the decisive theory explaining how the atoms interact and are ordered in
the superfluid state" [of Helium-3, the 1970s experimental observation of
which won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Caltech graduate Douglas D. Osheroff,
now at Stanford].
The leading candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004-2010,
by being 2003 Thomson ISI Citation Laureates, are:
Shuji Nakamura (Professor, Materials Department, Director of the Center
for Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California,
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California) "For his invention of the blue laser
and blue, green and white light-emitting diodes (LEDs), through the use of
gallium nitride based semiconductors; a great leap forward in data storage
technology, lighting devices and other realms."
or
Yoshinori Tokura (Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan) "For outstanding research in correlated-electron oxide materials,
including discoveries in superconducting compounds and for work on the
phenomenon of giant magnetoresistance."
or
Michael B. Green, FRS (John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, United Kingdom) and John H. Schwartz (Harold Brown Professor of
Theoretical Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California) and
Edward Witten (Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey)
"For contributions in string theory and M theory."
[Your humble Webmaster believes that it will take experimental confirmation
before Green, Schwartz, and Witten win the Nobel prize. The Nobel
committtee is not interested so much in theory.]
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J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series of novels became the most
successful book launches in history, adapted to hit movies, and making
her the richest woman in Great Britain. Also on the Fantasy front, Peter
Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy of feature films
[The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002),
Return of the King (2003)] further elevated the late J. R. R. Tolkien
in the world's attention, and were widely held to be the greatest Fantasy
films of all time.
Other huge box-office hits included Spider-Man; X-Men (2000);
The Matrix; Men in Black 2 (2002); Shrek (2002);
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002); Matrix: Reloaded (2003);
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), Alien Vs. Predator (2004),
Fantastic Four (2004); Hellboy (2004); I, Robot (2004);
A Sound of Thunder (2004); Spider-Man II (2004);
The Demolished Man (2005); Farenheit 451 (2005);
Iron Man (2005); Jurassic Park IV (2005);
Star Wars: Episode III (2005); Spider-Man 3 (2006);
X-Men 3 (2006); and Rendezvous With Rama (2006).
Eminem (a "white boy") became the top Rap star while Tiger Woods
(not a "white boy") became the top Golf star, beginning the final
demolition of racism in the USA.
Olympics were held:
- 2000: Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia
- 2002: Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- 2004: Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
- 2006: Winter Olympics in Torino (Turin), Italy
- 2008: Summer Olympics in Beijing, China
- 2010: Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada
The FIFA World Cups, the biggest event in world sports, featured
football/soccer in:
- 2002: Korea/Japan hosting; (Brazil over Germany, 2-0 in Final)
- 2006: Germany hosting
- 2010: Egypt or Soth Africa or Libya/Tunisia hosting
- 2014: Brazil hosting (or elsewhere in Soth America, maybe Argentina,
Chile, or Venezuela)
- 2018: Australia or Nigeria hosting
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 went to Gao Xingjian [born 1940 in
Ganzhour, China] now of France, "for an oeuvre of universal validity,
bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for
the Chinese novel and drama."
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 went to V. S. Naipaul [Sir Vidiadhar
Surajprasad Naipaul] [born 1932 in Trinidad], United Kingdom, "for having
united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that
compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002 went to Imre Kertesz [born 1929],
Hungary, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual
against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 was announced 2 October 2003,
and went to John Maxwell Coetzee of South Africa (currently residing
in Australia) "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising
involvement of outsiders."
Some possible candidates for Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004-2010 include:
- Antonio Lobo Antunes (Portugal, novelist long-shot because Saramago already won
- Gennady Aygi (Russia)
- Ray Bradbury
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados)
- Bob Dylan (really)
- Harlan Ellison
- Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
- Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
- Ismail Kadare (Albania)
- Ivan Klima (Czechoslovakia)
- Milan Kundera (Czechoslovakia)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
- Javier Marias (Spain)
- Peter Nadas (Hungary)
- Cees Nooteboom (Holland)
- Tomas Transtromer (Swedish poet)
- John Updike (U.S.)
- A. B. Yehoshua (Israel)
Some Inventions and Innovations of 2000-2010 that shaped the culture:
2000: Xenotransplant proof-of-concept (organs from Pigs)
2001: Implanted Microchips give sight to 3 blind men
2001: Inventor Dean Kamen's Segway Human Transporter
2002: Iris scanners first used for airport security
2003: Peer-to-Peer music downloading sparks many lawsuits
2003: Human Genome on a Chip: several vendors sell
2003: Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diode demonstrated by Sandia Labs
2003: GloFish -- genetically engineered luminescent zebrafish
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Major Books of the Decade 2000-2010
Books of 2000
Books of 2001
Books of 2002
Books of 2003
Books of 2004
Books of 2005 {to be done}
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Books of 2009 {to be done}
Books of 2010 {to be done}
2000: BOOKS
2000 Poul Anderson: Genesis;
Winner, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year
2000 Mary Gentle: Ash;
tied for second place, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year
2000 Jack McDivitt: Infinity Beach;
tied for second place, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year
2000 Robert J. Swayer: Calculating God;
tied for second place, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year
2000 Sherii S. Tepper: Fresco;
third place, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year
2000 Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky [Tor, 1999]
Winner, 2000 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Other Science Fiction Books of 2000, Alphabetically:
2000 Lynn Abbey [full name Marilyn Lorraine Abbey] (1948- ):
* Forgotten Realms: The Nether Scroll [Wizards of the Coast, Sep 2000]
ISBN 0-7869-1566-8, $6.99, 311pp, paperback, Alan Pollack
cover art) [Forgotten Realms: Lost Empires]
Novelization adapted from role-playing games, ÒLost EmpiresÓ #4.
* Out of Time [Ace, July 2000] ISBN 0-441-00751-1, $5.99, 311pp,
paperback, Phil Howe cover art
Contemporary Fantasy, protagonist is a librarian
2000 Dan Abnett:
* Warhammer 40,000: First & Only (Games Workshop/Black Library, Mar 2000]
first US edition, ISBN 0-671-78375-0, $6.95, 272pp,
paperback, Kenson Low cover art) \
* Warhammer 40,000: GauntÕs Ghosts, Novelization adapted from
role-playing game world
* Warhammer 40,000: Ghostmaker [Black Library, May 2000,
ISBN 1-84154-032-3, £5.99, 287pp, paperback, Martin Hanford
cover art
* Warhammer: Hammers of Ulric [co-authors Nik Vincent, James Wallis)]
[Black Library, Apr 2000] ISBN 1-84154-033-1, £5.99, 320pp,
paperback, Martin Hanford cover art
2000 Justin Achilli: World of Darkness: Giovanni [White Wolf, Apr 2000]
ISBN 1-56504-826-1, $5.99, 267pp, trade paperback, John Van Fleet
cover art, Novelization adapted from "Clan" role-playing games.
2000 Peter Ackroyd, full name Peter Warwick Ackroyd (1949-):
The Plato Papers [Doubleday, Feb 2000] ISBN 0-385-49768-7, $21.95,
173pp, hardcover, Timothy Hsu cover art; SF/Satire novella,
a Plato of 3700 AD analyzes his past, which includes our present
with many insightful and/or hilarious misunderstandings.
First US edition [London: Chatto & Windus, Apr 1999]
2000 Douglas Adams, full name Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001):
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy [omnibus edition]
[Science Fiction Book Club #03306, June 2000] $14.98, 839pp,
hardcover, Gary Ruddell cover art
Reprint [Heinemann, 1995] as
"The Hitch HikerÕs Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts"
omnibus of all five novels in the series:
* The HitchhikerÕs Guide to the Galaxy [1979]
* The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [1980]
* Life, the Universe and Everything [1982]
* So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [1984]
* Mostly Harmless [1992]
2000 Richard Adams, full name Richard George Adams (1920-):
* The Outlandish Knight [Severn House, Jan 2000] ISBN 0-7278-5496-8, £17.99,
249pp, harcover; Historical/Mainstream novel, by the author best
known for Watership Down, featuring a family which is,
[similar to "Forest Gump" or Woody Allen's "Zelig"]
coincidently there at miscellaneous Historical turning points
2000 Joan Aiken, full name Joan Delano Aiken (1924-):
* the "Wolves" Young-Adult Alternate History series of novels,
set in an alternate version of the English History era of James III:
* The Wolves of Willoughby Chase [Delacorte, Nov 2000] 1st of series
ISBN 0-385-32790-0, $16.95, 181pp, hardcover,
Edward Gorey cover art [Reprint of: Cape 1962]
Illustrated by Pat Marriott and Patricia Eleanor Howard.
* The Cuckoo Tree [Houghton Mifflin, Oct 2000] 5th of series
ISBN 0-618-07023-0, $5.95, 289pp, trade paperback,
Edward Gorey cover art [Reprint of: Cape 1971]
* Dangerous Games [Delacorte, July 2000] 9th in series
ISBN 0-440-41593-4, $4.99, 251pp, trade paperback,
Christer Eriksson cover art; [Reprint of Delacorte, 1999]
about Dido Twite
* Limbo Lodge (Red Fox, Apr 2000] ISBN 0-09-926627-X, £3.99, 220pp,
paperback, Mark Robertson cover art
[Reprint of Delacorte, 1999, titled as "Dangerous Games"
* The Stolen Lake [Houghton Mifflin, Oct 2000]
ISBN 0-618-07020-6, $16.00, 314pp, trade paperback,
Edward Gorey cover art [Reprint of Cape, 1981]
2000 R. V. Albon: Tales from the Vienna Woods
[The Book Guild, Nov 2000] ISBN 1-85776-454-4,
£8.95, 85pp, hardcover, Viccari Wheele cover art;
Collection, 13 original folk tales, as if told to a
traveller at a Vienna Woods inn, celverly in old style, as with
Italo Calvino's "Italian Tales" [which hides one original among many
classics].
2000 Vivien Alcock (1924-):
* The Monster Garden [Houghton Mifflin, Apr 2000]
ISBN 0-618-00337-1, $4.95, 164pp, paperback,
Barbara McClintock cover art [Reprint of: Methuen, 1988]
Young-adult novel about genetic engineering.
Brian W. Aldiss, full name Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925-):
* Art After Apogee: The relationships between an idea, a story, and
painting [co-author Rosemary Phipps]
[Avernus, Aug 2000] ISBN 1-871503-07-8, £, 31+8pp, pamphlet,
Brian Aldiss cover art; Chapbook combining AldissÕs story
"Apogee Again" [originally published in the anthology moorcock@60.com,
with comments by Aldiss and artist Rosemary Phipps]
Also has 8 full-page, unpaginated illustrations, including black &
white drawings by Aldiss and full-color paintings by Phipps.
Signed, limited edition of 100.
order from:
Avernus
39 St. Andrews Road
Old Headington
Oxford OX3 9DL
UK
website: [www.brianwaldiss.com]
* A Chinese Perspective [James Goddard, Aug 2000] no ISBN, £7.95, 72pp,
SF novella [originally published in anthology Anticipations, 1978]
Text revised; new introduction by Aldiss. First in a series of
"Science Fiction Rediscoveries."
Available from:
James Goddard
Flat 4
13 Lockwood St.
Driffield East Yorkshire
YO25 6RU, UK;
or The Official Brian W. Aldiss Web site: [www.brianwaldiss.com].
* Non-Stop [Orion/Millennium, Sep 2000] ISBN 1-85798-998-8, £6.99, 241pp,
trade paperback, Fred Gambino cover art;
[Reprint of: Faber, 1958] classic Sciendce Fiction novel about
exploration of a far-future flora-dominated Earth and Moon;
Volume 33 in the "SF Masterworks" series.
* When the Feast is Finished: A Memoir of Love and Bereavement
[co-author Margaret Aldiss]
[Little Brown/Warner UK, May 2000] ISBN 0-7515-2995-8, £7.99, 230pp,
trade paperback, [Reprint of Little, Brown UK, 1999 as
titled: "When the Feast is Finished: Reflections on Terminal Illness"]
Memoir os an astonishing life in the orient, War, Science
Fiction, and the wider worlds of literature and culture.
* White Mars, or, The Mind Set Free [co-author Roger Penrose]
[St. Martin's, Apr 2000] ISBN 0-312-25473-3, $23.95, 323pp,
hardcover, Utopian SF novel of a fledgling Martian colony
fallen out of communications with Earth.
[First US edition of Little, Brown UK, Nov 1999]
2000 Buzz Aldrin (1930-): The Return [co-author John Barnes
[Tor, May 2000] ISBN 0-312-87424-3, $25.95, 301pp,
hardcover, Technothriller about space shuttle public relations flap,
plus atomic war between India and Pakistan which puts the
International Space Station at risk.
2001 BOOKS
{to be done}
2001 Carol Emshwiller: The Mount [Small Beer Press]
The 2002 Philip K. Dick Award Winner,
announced at Norwescon 26 in SeaTac, Washington.
The Philip K. Dick Award is given annually to the distinguished
original science fiction paperback published for the first time in the
US. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.
2001 China Mieville: Perdido Street Station [Del Rey]
winner of 2002's Arthur C. Clarke Award, given annually for the
best science fiction novel receiving its first British publication
in the previous year.
a Final Nominee for 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2001 J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
[Bloomsbury; Scholastic/Levine]
Winner, 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2002 BOOKS
2002 Kevin J. Anderson: Hidden Empire: The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 1
[Warner Books, July 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Ray Bradbury: One More for the Road [Morrow]
Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 David Brin: Kiln People, [Tor]
second place, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year;
voted #5 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2002 Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic Immunity, [Baen, May 2002]]
voted #9 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
Final Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Ramsey Campbell, Ramsey Campbell, Probably: On Horror and Sundry
Fantasies, [P.S. Publishing]
Winner: British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (awarded 24 Nov 2003)
2002 Vincent di Fate: The Science Fiction Art of Vincent di Fate [Paper Tiger]
voted #8 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Bob Eggleton and John Grant: Dragonhenge [Paper Tiger]
voted #4 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2002 Carol Emshwiller, The Mount [Small Beer Press, June 2002]
Final Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Kelley Eskridge: Solitaire [Eos]
a Final Nominee for 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2002 Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (edited by):
Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
[Underwood Books]
voted #5 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2002 Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair, [Viking]
voted #11 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Gregory Frost, Fitcher's Brides [Tor, Dec 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Neil Gaiman: American Gods [Eos]
Winner, 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel;
Winner, 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2002 Neil Gaiman: Coraline, [HarperCollins]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella;
Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Younger Readers,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music [Eos, June 2002
Final Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Stephen Jones (Editor): Keep Out the Night [P.S. Publishing]
Winner: British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology (awarded 23 Nov 2003)
2002 M. John Harrison: Light, [Gollancz]
voted #15 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Brian A. Hopkins: El Dia de Los Muertos [Earthling Publications]
Tied for Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 Alexander C. Irvine, A Scattering of Jades [Tor, July 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Kay Kenyon, Maximum Ice [Bantam, Feb 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Nancy Kress: Probability Space, [Tor]
winner, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year;
voted #7 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Justine Larbalestier: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
[Wesleyan University Press]
voted #3 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2002 John Lawrence and Robert Jewett: The Myth of the American Superhero
[William B. Eerdmans, Mar 2002] Nonfiction
Winner, 2004 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in General Myth and Fantasy Studies
2002 Ursula K. Le Guin: The Other Wind [Harcourt Brace]
a Final Nominee for 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2002 Thomas Ligotti: "My Work Is Not Yet Done"
[My Work Is Not Done Yet: Three Tales of Corporate Terror]
Tied for Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 Jack McDevitt: Chindi, [Ace, July 2002]
voted #14 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
Final Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary:
Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, [Between the Lines]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2002 Robert A. Metzger: Picoverse [Ace]
a Final Nominee for 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2002 China Mieville: The Scar, [Macmillan; Del Rey, June 2002]
voted #2 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel;
Awarded a special Philip K. Dick citation;
August Derleth Award for Best Novel (from British Fantasy Society)
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III: The Art of Chesley Bonestell
Winner, 2002 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book
2002 Lyda Morehouse, Fallen Host [Roc, May 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 John Pelan, ed.: "The Darker Side: Generations of Horror" [Roc]
Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 Tom Piccirilli: The Night Class [Leisure]
Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 Terry Pratchett: Night Watch, [Doubleday UK; HarperCollins]
voted #8 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Christopher Priest: The Separation
winner of 2003's Arthur C. Clarke Award, given annually for the
best science fiction novel receiving its first British publication
in the previous year.
This is Priest's first Clarke Award win, after having been shortlisted
twice, for "The Prestige" in 1996, and "The Extremes" in 1999.
The Separation has not yet been published in the US.
2002 Mike Resnick: The Science Fiction Professional [Farthest Star]
voted #6 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Alastair Reynolds: Redemption Ark, [Gollancz; Ace]
voted #10 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt, [Bantam]
voted #3 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2002 Don Sakers: Dance for the Ivory Madonna, [Speed of C]
voted #6 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Robert J. Sawyer: Hominids, [Analog Jan-Apr 2002; Tor]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel;
third place, John W. Campbell Award for best SF novel of the year
2002 Karl Schroeder: Permanence, [Tor]
voted #12 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones [Little, Brown]
Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel,
from the 2003 Horror Writers Association
2002 Allen Steele: Coyote, [Ace]
voted #13 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Bruce Sterling: "Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years"
voted #7 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Michael Swanwick: Bones of the Earth, [Eos]
voted #4 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel;
a Final Nominee for 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2002 Harry Turtledove: Ruled Britannia, [New American Library, Nov 2002]
voted #7 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
(thus did not make final ballot)
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Jerry Wiest: Ray Bradbury: An Illustrated Life, [Morrow]
voted #2 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2002 The Science of Discworld II: The Globe Emury
voted #9 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 The Art of Jeffrey Jones by Jeffrey Jones (Underwood Books)
voted #10 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait
voted #11 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton
voted #12 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman (NESFA Press)
voted #13 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 The Making of the Movie Trilogy: Lord of the Rings by Brian
Sibley (Houghton Mifflin)
voted #14 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 LOTR - TTT Visual Companion
voted #15 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery edited by Paul Barnett (Paper Tiger)
voted #16 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
(thus did not make final ballot)
2002 Best Short Fiction
2002 Eleanor Arnason, "The Potter of Bones" [Asimov's, Sep 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Novella, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Eleanor Arnason, "Knapsack Poems" [Asimov's, May 2002
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Richard Bowes, The Mask of the Rex" Ê[F&SF, May 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Novelette, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Cory Doctorow, "0wnz0red" [Salon.com, Aug 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Novelette, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Carol Emshwiller, "Grandma" [F&SF, Mar 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Karen Joy Fowler, "What I Didn't See" [Sci Fiction, 10 July 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Neil Gaiman, "Coraline" [HarperCollins, July20 02]
Final Ballot, Best Novella, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Molly Gloss, "Lambing Season" [Asimov's, July 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Theodora Goss, "The Rose in Twelve Petals" [Realms of Fantasy, Apr 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 John Kessel, "Stories for Men" Ê[Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Novella, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Ellen Klages, "Taste of Summer" [Black Gate, Feb 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Ian MacLeod, "Breathmoss" [Asimov's, May 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Novella, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Greg van Eekhout, "Will You Be an Astronaut?" [F&SF, Sep 2002]
Preliminary Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 James Van Pelt, "The Last of the O-Forms" [Asimov's, Sep 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2002 Ray Vukcevich, "The Wages of Syntax"Ê (Sci Fiction, 16 Oct 2002]
Final Ballot, Best Novelette, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 BOOKS
2003 Kage Baker: The Anvil of the World [Tor, 2003]
Award-winning author of "In the Garden of Iden" and "The Graveyard Game"
starts a new fantasy series, from the viewpoint of a retired
freelance assassin who starts a new job as caravan master, and is
drawn into a complex plot involving demons and half-humans.
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
2003 Steven Barnes: Zulu Heart, [Warner, Mar 2003]
Sequel to "Lion's Blood": an alternate hostory where Africa conquered
Europe and colonized North America...
Winner: #7, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 Stephen Baxter: Coalescent [Del Rey, Dec 2003]
2004 Short List for Arthur C. Clarke Award
2003 Greg Bear: Darwin's Children [Del Rey, Apr 2003]
2004 Short List for Arthur C. Clarke Award
2003 K. J. Bishop: The Etched City [Prime Books, Feb 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
2003 M. M. Buckner: Hyperthought [Ace]
Finalist for 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society; awards to be presented 9 Apr 2004 at
Norwescon 27 in Seattle.
2003 Mark Budz: Clade [Bantam Spectra]
Finalist for 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society; awards to be presented 9 Apr 2004 at
Norwescon 27 in Seattle.
2003 Lois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of Souls [Eos]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel [awarded 4 Sep 2004]
2003 Jack Cady: Ghosts of Yesterday [Publisher? Date?]
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
2003 Ramsey Campbell: Told by the Dead [PS Publishing, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection
2003 Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann, and Dennis Etchison, editors:
Gathering the Bones [Harper-Collins Voyager, Tor, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
2003 Jacqueline Carey: Kushiel's Avatar, [Tor, Apr 2003]
3rd novel in seris about an alternative Renaissance, following on
"Kushiel's Dart" [2001] and "Kushiel's Chosen" [2002]
Winner: #10, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 John Clute: Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 [Beccon Publications, 2003]
[Nonfiction]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2003 Bill Congreve, editor: [Sandglass Enterprises, 2003]
Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology
2003 Ellen Datlow, editor: The Dark: New Ghost Stories [Tor, 2003]
Winner, 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
2003 Matthew B. J. Delaney: Jinn [St. Martin's, 2003]
Winner 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel
2003 Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, [Tor, Jan 2003; trade paperback Dec 2003]
A rising star author from cyberculture packs 10 novels' worth of
ideas into this tale of a century-old denizen of a strangely altered
Disney World... Revolutionaries take over the Hall of Presidents.
Winner: #8, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy;
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2003 Tananarive Due: The Good House [Altria Books, Sep 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel
2003 Clare B. Dunkle: The Hollow Kingdom [Henry Holt, Oct 2003]
Winner, 2004 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature;
2003 Cathy & Arnie Fenner: Spectrum 10: The Best in Fantastic Contemporary Art
[Nonfiction] [Underwood Books, 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2003 Neil Gaiman & various artists: Endless Nights [DC/Vertigo, 2003]
Award-winning author is joined by several fine artists in a return
to the world of the Sandman (created by Neil Gaiman) in a series of
seven short stories collected as a Graphic Novel about a family of
the nearly-god-like Endless...
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
2003 John Garth: Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
Nonfiction [Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin, 2003]
Winner, 2004 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inkling Studies
2003 William Gibson: Pattern Recognition, [Putnam, Feb 2003]
Futuristic take on present-day pop-culture, "hipper than thou" slant,
from Tokyo, London, Moscow and other points of the archipelago of
style; by the master of the genre once called Cyberpunk.
Winner: #4, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Winner: #2, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2004 Short List for Arthur C. Clarke Award
Short List for 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award
2003 Terry Goodkind: Naked Empire, [Tor, July 2003]
8th book in immense "Sword of Truth" series...
Winner: #8, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 John Grant, Elizabeth Humphrey, and Pamela D. Scoville
The Chesley Awards for SF & Fantasy Art: A Retrospective
[Nonfiction] [Artists & Photographer's Press Ltd., 2003]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book [awarded 4 Sep 2004]
2003 Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Felaheen [Earthlight, May 2003]
Winner, Best Novel, 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award
2003 Michael Gruber: Tropic of Night [William Morrow, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel
2003 Laurell K. Hamilton: Cerulean Sins, [Berkley, Apr 2003]
11th book in immense "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series, set
in an alternate reality where magic works and both werewolves and
vampires inhabit the human cities...
Winner: #6, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 Elizabeth Hand: Bibliomancy [PS Publishing, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
2003 Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson: The Machine Crusade, [Tor, Sep 2003]
2nd book in prequel series to Brian's father Frank Herbert's "Dune" series...
Winner: #10, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 Brian Herbert: Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
[Nonfiction] [Tor Books, 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2003 Glen Hirshberg: The Two Sams: Ghost Stories [Carroll & Graf, 2003]
Winner (tie) 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
2003 Robert Holdstock: Celtika [Tor, 2003]
Award-winning author of "Mythago Wood" ingeniously combines the
Celtic myth of Merlin with the Greek myth of Jason and the Aronauts
in a bizarre tale that starts with a quest for a frozen lake in
Lapland where a dead man howls from under the ice, and Jason's two
sons are kidnapped by his wife Medea...
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
2003 Nalo Hopkinson: The Salt Roads [Warner, Nov 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Nebula Awards
2003 Jane Jensen: Dante's Equation [Del Rey]
Finalist for 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society; awards to be presented 9 Apr 2004 at
Norwescon 27 in Seattle.
2003 Kij Johnson: Fudoki [Tor, Oct 2003]
Set in the same world as "The Fox Woman"
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
2003 Gwyneth Jones: Midnight Lamp [Gollancz SF, 2003]
Short List for 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award
2004 Short List for Arthur C. Clarke Award
Book 3 of the "Bold as Love" series, the first of which
(Bold as Love) won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2001
2003 Stephen Jones, editor: By Moonlight Only [PS Publishing, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology
2003 Robert Jordan: Crossroads of Twilight, [Tor, Jan 2003]
10th and final book in immense "The Wheel of Time" series, which
actually reads like one vast super-novel
Winner: #1, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 J. Gregory Keyes: The Briar King, [Del Rey, Jan 2003]
also known as "Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Book 1" [4 in series]
Winner: #3, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 Stephen King: Wolves of the Calla, [Donald M. Grant/Scribners, Nov 2003]
5th book in immense "The Dark Tower" series, by the modern master
of fantasy that cannot be classed as purely popular or purely literary
Winner: #4, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy
also a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
[note: an expanded edition of the first book in the series:
"The Gunslinger" was selling intensely again, and was
Winner: #9, Amazon.com Top 10 Customers' Choice: Science Fiction & Fantasy]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel
2003 Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair That Changed America
Winner, Nonfiction, International Horror Award
2003 Kelly Link, ed.: Trampoline: An Anthology [Publisher? Date?]
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
2003 Ian R. MacLeod: The Light Ages [Ace / Penguin Putnam, May 2003]
Aether mines and Machine Age / Medieval "Fantasy with Rivets"
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
2003 Patricia McKillip: In the Forests of Sere, [Berkeley, June 2003]
She previously won a World fantasy Award, and now crafts a novel
reminiscent of Ursula K. Le Guin and Jane Yolen, yet distinctive
Winner: #5, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2003 Robin McKinley: Sunshine [Berkley, Oct 2003; UK: Bantam]
Sunshine, a young baker, is kidnapped at night by a vampire gang, as
bait for another vampire. Sunshine escapes the manshion where she was
imprisoned, but she was now pursued by both the vampires and the
half-demon police, in this blend of Fantasy, Romance, Humor, and
Suspense.
Winner, 2004 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature;
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
2003 George R. R. Martin: GRRM: A RRetrospective [Subterranean Press, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
2003 Farah Mendlesohn: Reading Science Fiction
Winner, Best Non-Fiction, British Science Fiction Award
2003 Elizabeth and Thomas Monteleone, editors: Borderlands 5 [Borderlands, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology
2003 Elizabeth Moon: The Speed of Dark, [Ballantine, Jan 2003]
Ruthless early-21st-century USA corporate life has surprises in store
for pattern-recognition expert Lou Arrendale...
Winner: #2, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Winner, Best Novel, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon [Del Rey]
Finalist for 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society; awards to be presented 9 Apr 2004 at
Norwescon 27 in Seattle.
2003 Chris Moriarty: Spin State, [Bantam, Sep 2003]
Debut novel on human and post-human chaos of clones, Artificial
Intelligence, class-warfare, and murder...
Winner: #6, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy;
Finalist for 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society; awards to be presented 9 Apr 2004 at
Norwescon 27 in Seattle.
2003 Stewart O'Nan: The Dark Country [Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2003]
October, small town, teenagers, country road, car wreck... and ghosts.
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel
2003 Reggie Oliver: The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini [Haunted River, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection
2003 Rosalie Parker, ed.: Strange Tales [Publisher, date?]
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
2003 Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club [Random House, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel
2003 Mike Resnick, The Return of Santiago [Tor, Feb 2003]
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 Alastair Reynolds: Absolution Gap [Gollancz SF2003; May 2004 paperback]
Short List for 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award
2003 Justina Robson: Natural History [Macmillan, Apr 2003]
Short List for 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award
2003 Robert J. Sawyer: Humans [Tor, Feb 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 John Shirley: Crawlers [Del Rey, June 2003]
Critis say it's the author's most commercial book, in a good way --
as accessible as Stephen King, in chilling us with a man-made
monster.
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel
2003 Mark Siegal: Echo & Narcissus [Aardwolf Press, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel
2003 Dan Simmons: Ilium, [July 2003]
Ambitious and very impressive epic spawling across Earth, Mars, and
Jupiter, modelled on "The Iliad" and this both Literary and Science
Fictional
Winner: #1, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
also a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2003 Robert Silverberg, ed.: Legends II: New Sort Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy,
[Ballentine, Dec 2003, hardcover]
Authors include Terry Brooks, Orson Scott Crad, Tad Williams.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2003 Michael Marshall Smith: More Tomorrow & Other Stories [Earthling Productions, 2003]
Winner (tie) 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
2003 Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver [William Morrow, Harper Collins, Sep 2003]
Tour de force blockbuster historical Science Fiction about the dawn
of Newtonian and Leibnitzian world view, with pirates, battles,
romance, and much, much more... First of a vast trilogy
2004 Short List for Arthur C. Clarke Award
2003 Peter Straub: Lost Boy Lost Girl [Random House, 2003]
Revisits the characters from award-winner Straub's "Blue Rose" novel
series, mixing the genres of Horror and Teen Fiction in a unique
supernatural short thriller
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
Winner, 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel
2003 Charles Stross: Singularity Sky [Ace]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2003 Tricia Sullivan: Maul [Orbit. Nov 2003]
2004 Short List for Arthur C. Clarke Award
Short List for 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award
2003 Steve Rasnic Tem: The Book of Days [Subterranean Press, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel
2003 Jeff Vandermeer: Veniss Underground [Prime, 2003]
First novel blends the Orpheus and Euridyce myth with a far-future of
biotechnology under a desert city... Bladrunner meets Heart of Darkness
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
2003 Jeff Vandermeer and Mark Roberts, Editors:
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric &
Discredited Diseases [Borderlands, 2003]
Nominated for 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
2003 John Varley: Red Thunder, [Ace, Apr 2003]
First novel lately by 5-time winner of Hugo and Nebula Awards
Winner: #9, Amazon.com Top 10 Editors' Pick: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Preliminary Ballot, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 Jo Walton: Tooth and Claw [Tor, 2003]
Quasi-Victorian dragons
Nominated for 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
2003 William J. Widder: Master Storyteller: An Illustrated Tour of the
Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard [Nonfiction] [Bridge Publications, 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book
2003 Liz Williams: Nine Layers of Sky [Bantam Spectra, 2003]
British author of "The Poison Master" starts with a chase across the
chaotic former USSR which moves through a fatal traffic accident in
Uzbekistan, via a mysterious metal object, to an altern ate dimension where the
viewpoint character Elen Irinova (a scientist now forced to work as a
janitor) is pursued by apparently supernatural beings...
a San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Selection
2003 Robert Charles Wilson: Blind Lake [Tor]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
2003 Ann Tonsor Zeddies: Steel Helix [Del Rey]
Finalist for 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society; awards to be presented 9 Apr 2004 at
Norwescon 27 in Seattle.
MORE 2003 Books: {to be done}
2003 Best Short Fiction
2003 Catherine Asaro, "Walk in Silence" [Analog, Apr 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella
2003 Kage Baker, "The Empress of Mars" [Asimov's, July 2003]
Final Ballot, Best Novella, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella
2003 Kevin Brockmeier, "The Brief History of the Dead" [New Yorker, 8 Sep 2003]
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 Michael Burstein, "Paying It Forward" [Analog, Sep 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2003 Harlan Ellison, "Goodbye to All That"
[Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next New Millenium, 2003;
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Apr 2003]
Final Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
2003 Jeffrey Ford, "The Empire of Ice Cream" Ê [Sci Fiction, 26 Feb 2003]
Winner, Best Novelette, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
2003 Neil Gaiman, "Coraline"
Winner, Best Novella. 2003 Nebula Award
2003 Neil Gaiman, "A Study in Emerald"
[Shadows Over Baker Street, Del Rey, 2003]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Story [awarded 4 Sep 2004]
2003 Neil Gaiman and David McKean, "The Wolves in the Wall"
Winner, Best Short Fiction, British Science Fiction Award
2003 Joe Haldeman, "Four Short Novels" [Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2003 Glen Hirshberg, "Dancing Men"
Winner, Medium Fiction, International Horror Award
2003 Brian Hodge, "With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu"
Winner, Short Fiction, International Horror Award
2003 James Patrick Kelly, "Bernardo's House" [Asimov's, June 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
2003 Jay Lake, "Into the Gardens of Sweet Night"
[Writers of the Future XIX, Bridge Publications, 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
[note: Jay Lake won the John W. Campbell Award for New Writer, 4 Sep 2004]
2003 David D. Levine, "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" [F&SF, June 2003]
Preliminary Ballot, Best Short Story, 2003 SFWA Nebula Awards¨
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2003 Robert Reed, "Hexagons" [Asimov's, July 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
2003 Mike Resnick, "Robots Don't Cry" [Asimov's, July 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2003 Lucius Shepard, "Louisiana Breakdown"
Winner, Long Fiction, International Horror Award
2003 Charles Stross, "Nightfall" [Asimov's, Apr 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
2003 Michael Swanwick, "Legions in Time" [Asimov's, Apr 2003]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette [awarded 4 Sep 2004]
2003 Walter Jon Williams, "The Green Leopard Plague" [Asimov's, Oct-Nov 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella
2003 Connie Willis, "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" [Asimov's Dec 2003]
Final Ballot, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella
2003 Vernor Vinge, "The Cookie Monster" [Analog, Oct 2003]
Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella [awarded 4 Sep 2004]
2004 BOOKS
2004 Douglas Adams and Terry Gilliam: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
25th Anniversary Edition [Crown Publishing Group, Aug 2004] annotated hardcover
Not just a repackaging, but almost scholarly fun with new annotations
and a strong introduction by film director Terry Gilliam of Monty
Python fame, plus 42 pages of new material. Why 42? If you don't
know, don't panic. But bring a towel.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Max Barry: Jennifer Government: A Novel [Knopf, Jan 2004] Trade paperback
American supercorporations rule the world. This satirical adventure
follows Hack Nike (last names denote employer) in a series of deadly
shootings planned as a marketing ploy, with the eponymous Jennifer
Government trying to rescue him and the world.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxon,
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon: A Novel of Atlantis
and the Ancient British Isles [Penguin USA, June 2004, hardcover]
Collaboration (posthumous for Bradley) in which "The Mists of Avalon"
as a Romano-Celtic Arthurian background seen from women's points of view,
is connected in a semi-prequel to Paxon's priestesses of Atlantis.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: A Novel
[Bloomsbury Publishing Group, Sep 2004] hardcover
Ignore the intense PR hype: this really might be the Fantasy novel
of the year -- or the decade. Jane Austen meets Tolkien,
stylistically speaking, in precisely the era of Austin's novels, yet
in an alternate England where magic works, a magician rules the
North, and yet magic has not been seen for centuries as is dismissed
as archaic and extinct. A new powerful magician upsets the order.
Best-seller of deep literary merit. Certain to be a blockbuster movie.
Nominated, 2004 Booker Prize
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Stephen Donaldson: The Runes of Earth: Last Chronicles of
Thomas Covenant Series #1 [Penguin USA, Oct 2004] hardcover
Two decades ago the sprawling saga ended with tragedy, death, and a
slender victory. Now The Land has not been left behind, as Linden
Avery foretells a new round of saga, and the profit/Loss statements
back up the prediction with a huge ad budget.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Sarah Douglass: The Nameless Day: Crucible Book 1 [Tor, 1 July 2004]
hardcover, 448 pages
After the Black Death killed a third of the people of Europe, the
Hundred Years War approaches a climax as both French and English
peasants revolt. But is there a dark supernatural pattern to this? Yes.
#9 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Steven Erikson: Gardens of the Moon: Malazan Book of the Fallen,
Malazan Book of the Fallen Ser [Tom Doherty Associates LLC, June 2004] hardcover
For the first of a projected Dekology (10-book series) first-time
novelist Steven Erikson introduces the vast Malazan Empire, on the
borderline between realistic and fantastic, under growing external
and internal pressure to change. Is Erikson the new Robert Jordan?
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Minister Faust: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
[Del Rey, 3 Aug 2004] paperback, 544 pages
Bizarre and funny novel mixes, in alphabetical order: Black Culture, Canada,
Cannibals, Comic Books, Drugs, Magic, Mythology, Organic Food,
and Television.
#10 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 William Gibson: Pattern Recognition, [Putnam, Feb 2003;
Penguin USA, Feb 2004, Trade Paperback]
Technically a mainstream novel as it is set entirely in the present,
yet on this list because of both Gibson's leading role in the
Cyberpunk movement and the utterly science fictional atmosphere.
The future has become now.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
see 2004 BOOKS for awards and nominations for 2003 first edition
2004 Eileen Gunn: Stable Strategies And Others [Tachyon Publications,
28 Aug 2004] paperback, 206 pages
Splendid, thoughtful, and deftly written stories by Eileen Gunn,
who writes slowly, but crafts a gem every time. The collection ends
with a collaboration "Green Fire" in which Isaac Asimov and Robert
Heinlein have unexpected careers in alternate histories.
#4 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Theodore Judson: Fitzpatrick's War [Penguin USA, Aug 2004] hardcover
Debut novel set centuries hence after civilization was destroyed by
biowar. A neo-steampunk Yukon Confederacy is deconstructed in this
putative re-edited memoir of military genius Isaac Prophet Fitzpatrick by his
fighting companion, ostensibly 50 years after the first edition of
the memoir. "The Postman" meets "Pale Fire."
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Greg Keyes: The Charnel Prince (The Kingdom of Thorn and Bone, Book 2)
[Del Rey, 17 Aug 2004] hardcover, 528 pages
Sequel to The Briar King, with the eponymous hero awake and the land
of Crotheny torn by mythical creatures, with a king and princesses
betrayed and killed.
#2 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Stephen King: The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)
[Donald M. Grant/Scribner, 21 Sep 2004] hardcover, 864 pages
Illustrated by Michael Whelan, this amazing novel ties up plot
threads that weave into roughly half of ALL Stephen King novels,
establishing King as the King of Hypernovels.
Winner: #1 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 George Lucas: Star Wars Trilogy [Ballantine, Aug 2004] trade paperback
Three novelizations in an omnibus edition. Featuring a new
introduction by George Lucas, this gives new ammunition to both
sides in the debate over whether this is the greatest 20th century
archetypal saga of a Science Fiction cosmos, or the franchise that
set Science Fiction backwards by 50 years.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Patricia McKillip: Alphabet of Thorn [Ace, 3 Feb 2004] Hardcover 1st
Edition, 320 pages
One of the best fantasy writers in a century of American fiction,
Patricia McKillip proves once again why she deserved her multiple
World Fantasy Awards and Mythopoeic Awards. Remarkable novel.
#6 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Sarah Micklem: Firethorn: A Novel [Simon & Schuster, June 2004, hardcover]
Promising first Fantasy novel about female servant with supernatural
powers who defies caste-like social convention because of her love for a
nobleman. Romantic, with detailed subcreation.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
#7 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Larry Niven: Ringworld's Children [Tom Doherty Associates LLC, June 2004] hardcover
For the first time in a decade, Niven returns to his tales of
Ringworld, the astonishing setting for Hugo and Nebula winning
novels. War might destroy the biodiverse Ringworld, an alien
construction with 3,000,000 times the land area of Earth. The only
hope comes from a new generation, and the human adventurer Louis Wu,
restored to action. Hard SF that can't be beat.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Nick Sagan: Idlewild [Penguin USA, July 2004] trade paperback
In a Virtual Reality equivalent of Caltech, techno-elite students are
immersed in VR 24/7. Protagonist Gabriel Kennedy Hall awakens with
amnesia, and walks a fine line between Cyberpunk and Thriller.
Promising debut novel by Nick Sagan.
Finalist: Borders "Best of 2004: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen: Heaven [Aspect, 11 May 2004] hardcover, 352 pages
Mathematician and Biologist collaborate in this dense and fascinating
future tale of interstellar Neanderthals in exotic settings such as
the planet No-Moon, interacting with intricately designed aliens such
as the aquatic Second-Best Sailor. Irrestible to people such as Your
Humble Webmaster, who is a published Mathematical Biologist, but
don't let that spoil your fun -- this is a wonderful book even if
you are scientifically illiterate and just dig action with weird
characters in original settings.
#5 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Harry Turtledove and Noreen Doyle, eds.: First Heroes: New Tales of the
Bronze Age [Tor, 1 June 2004] hardcover 1st edition, 368 pages
14 stirring and tragic tales from the period of Gilgamesh and
Odysseus. All original, all Fantasy, almost all excellent.
#3 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
2004 Tad Williams: Shadowmarch [Daw, 2 Nov 2004] hardcover, 656 pages
High Fantasy for the first time in a decade from New York Times
bestselling author Tad Williams. The first book of a strong trilogy.
#8 of Amazon's 2004 "Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy"
Other contenders, in alphabetical order month by month:
2004 Steve Aylett: Karloff's Circus [Orion/Gollancz, Jan 2004] trade paperback
2004 Ben Bova: Tales of the Grand Tour [Tor, Jan 2004] hardcover story collection
2004 Trudi Canavan: The Magicians' Guild [HarperCollins/Eos, Jan 2004] 1st US Edition
2004 Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter: Time's Eye
[Ballantine Del Rey, Jan 2004] hardcover
2004 David Gerrold: Blood and Fire [BenBella Books, Jan 2004] trade paperback
2004 Robert A. Heinlein: For Us, the Living [Scribner, Jan 2004] hardcover
eagerly awaited first novel, never before published
2004 Robert Jordan: New Spring [Time Warner UK/Orbit, Jan 2004] hardcover
[Tor, Jan 2004] hardcover
2004 Dean Koontz: Odd Thomas [HarperCollins UK, Jan 2004] hardcover
[Bantam, Jan 2004] hardcover
2004 Sophie Masson: Dame Ragnel [Hodder Silver, Jan 2004]
Young Adult novel, trade paperback
2004 Julian May: Conqueror's Moon [Ace, Jan 2004] hardcover, 1st US edition
2004 Wil McCarthy: Lost in Transmission [Bantam Spectra, Jan 2004]
2004 Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor: New Magics [Tor Teen, Jan 2004]
Anthology, hardcover
2004 Garth Nix: The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 2: Grim Tuesday
[Scholastic, Jan 2004] Young Adult novel, trade paperback
2004 Kim Stanley Robinson: Forty Signs of Rain [HarperCollins UK, Jan 2004] hardcover
2004 Robert Silverberg, editor: Legends II Ballantine Del Rey, Jan 2004]
1st US edition, Anthology, hardcover
2004 Sheree R. Thomas, editor: Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
[Warner Aspect, Jan 2004] hardcover
2004 Sean Williams & Shane Dix: Heirs of Earth [Ace, Jan 2004]
2004 Gene Wolfe: The Knight [Tor, Jan 2004] hardcover
2004 Sarah Zettel: The Firebird's Vengeance
[HarperCollins/Voyager, Jan 2004] hardcover and trade paperback
2004 Kelley Armstrong: Dime Store Magic [Time Warner UK/Orbit, Feb 2004]
2004 Catherine Asaro: The Charmed Sphere [Harlequin/Luna, Feb 2004] trade paperback
2004 Stephen Baxter: Hunters of Pangaea [NESFA Press, Feb 2004]
story collection, hardcover
2004 Ben Bova: The Silent War [Hodder & Stoughton, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 John Brosnan: Mothership [Orion/Gollancz, Feb 2004] hardcover/trade paperback
2004 C. J. Cherryh: The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh
[DAW, Feb 2004] story collection, hardcover
2004 Steve Cockayne: The Seagull Drovers
[Time Warner UK/Orbit, Feb 2004] trade paperback
2004 John M. Ford: Heat of Fusion and Other Stories
[Tor, Feb 2004] story collection, hardcover
2004 Andrew M. Greeley, editor: Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy
[Tor, Feb 2004] anthology, hardcover
2004 Thomas Harlan: House of Reeds [Tor, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Elizabeth Haydon: Elegy for a Lost Star [Tor, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Robin Hobb: Fool's Fate [Bantam Spectra, Feb 2004]
1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Robert Holdstock: Iron Grail [Tor, Feb 2004] 1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Katharine Kerr: Silver Wyrm [HarperCollins/Voyager, Feb 2004] hardcover/trade paperback
2004 Ken MacLeod: Newton's Wake [Time Warner UK/Orbit, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Barry Malzberg & Bill Pronzini: On Account of Darkness and Other Stories
[Gale Group/Five Star, Feb 2004] story collection, hardcover
2004 George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows
[HarperCollins/Voyager, Feb 2004] hardcover/trade paperback
2004 Paul McAuley: White Devils [Tor, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Patricia A. McKillip: Alphabet of Thorn [Ace, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Paul Park: No Traveller Returns [PS Publishing, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Victoria Strauss: The Burning Land [HarperCollins/Eos, Feb 2004] hardcover
2004 Michael Swanwick: A Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna &
Five British Dinosaurs [Tachyon Publications, Feb 2004]
story collection, trade paperback
2004 Michael Swanwick: The Periodic Table of Science Fiction
[PS Publishing, Feb 2004] story collection, hardcover
2004 Freda Warrington: A Dance in Blood Velvet
[Meisha Merlin, Feb 2004] trade paperback, 1st US edition
2004 K. J. Anderson: Mr. Wells and the Martians [Pocket, Mar 2004] hardcover
2004 Neal Asher: The Cowl [Macmillan/Tor UK, Mar 2004] trade paperback)
2004 Gregory Benford: Beyond Infinity [Time Warner UK/Orbit, Mar 2004]
2004 Gregory Benford: Beyond Infinity [Warner Aspect, Mar 2004]
1st US edition, hardcover)
2004 Mark Chadbourn: Queen of Sinister [Orion/Gollancz, Mar 2004]
hardcover/trade paperback)
2004 Lindsay Clarke: The War at Troy [HarperCollins/Voyager,Mar 2004] hardcover
2004 Paul Di Filippo: Neutrino Drag [Four Walls Eight Windows, Mar 2004]
story collection, trade paperback)
2004 Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe [Tor, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Mary Gentle: Cartomancy [Orion/Gollancz, Mar 2004] trade paperback)
2004 Peter F. Hamilton: Pandora's Star [Ballantine Del Rey, Mar 2004]
hardcover, 1st US edition
2004 Anne Harris: Inventing Memory [Tor, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Guy Gavriel Kay: The Last Light of the Sun [Penguin/Roc, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Lois Lowry: Messenger [Houghton Mifflin/Lorraine, Mar 2004]
Young Adult novel, hardcover
2004 Laurie J. Marks: Earth Logic [Tor, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Vonda McIntyre, editor: Nebula Awards Showcase 2004
[Penguin/Roc, Mar 2004] anthology, trade paperback
2004 Sean McMullen: Glass Dragons [Tor, Mar 2004] hardcover/trade paperback
2004 Richard Morgan: Market Forces [Orion/Gollancz, Mar 2004] trade paperback)
2004 Richard K. Morgan: Broken Angels [Ballantine Del Rey, Mar 2004]
1st UD edition, trade paperback)
2004 Lucius Shepard: Two Trains Running [Golden Gryphon Press, Mar 2004]
story collection, hardcover)
2004 Sharon Shinn: Angel-Seeker [Ace, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Brian Stableford: Designer Genes and Other Stories
[Gale Group/Five Star, Mar 2004] story collection, hardcover)
2004 Karen Traviss: City of Pearl [HarperCollins/Eos, Mar 2004]
2004 Harry Turtledove: Out of the Darkness [Tor, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Lisa Tuttle: My Death [PS Publishing, Mar 2004] hardcover)
2004 Sarah Zettel: In Camelot's Shadow [Harlequin/Luna, Mar 2004]
trade paperback)
2004 Forrest Aguirre, editor: Leviathan, Volume Four: Cities
[Night Shade Books/Ministry of Whimsy Press, April 2004]
anthology, trade paperback
2004 Neal Asher: The Skinner [Tor, April 2004] 1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Patricia Bray: Devlin's Justice [Bantam Spectra, April 2004]
2004 Steven Brust: Sethra Lavode [Tor, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Leah R. Cutter: The Caves of Buda [Penguin/Roc, April 2004]
2004 Raymond E. Feist: King of Foxes [HarperCollins/Eos, April 2004]
1st US edition, hardcover
2004 David Gemmell: Swords of Night and Day [Ballantine Del Rey, April 2004] hardcover)
[Transworld/Bantam UK, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Howard V. Hendrix: The Labyrinth Key [Ballantine Del Rey, April 2004] trade paperback)
2004 Tanya Huff: Smoke and Shadows [DAW, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Paul Kearney: The Sea Beggars [Transworld/Bantam UK, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Joe R. Lansdale: Bumper Crop [Golden Gryphon Press, April 2004] story collection, hardcover)
2004 Maxine McArthur: Less Than Human [Warner Aspect, April 2004]
2004 Paul McAuley: Little Machines [PS Publishing, April 2004]
story collection, hardcover
2004 China MiŽville: The Iron Council [Macmillan UK, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Rudy Rucker: Frek and the Elixir [Tor, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Neal Stephenson: The Confusion [HarperCollins/Morrow,
April 2004] 1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Neal Stephenson: The Confusion [Heinemann, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Caroline Stevermer: Scholar of Magics [Tor, April 2004] hardcover
2004 Sarah Ash: Prisoner of the Ironsea Tower
[Transworld/Bantam UK, May 2004] trade paperback
2004 Greg Bear: Deadlines [HarperCollins UK, May 2004] hardcover/trade paperback
2004 Ben Bova: The Silent War [Tor, May 2004] hardcover
2004 Julie E. Czerneda: Survival [DAW, May 2004] hardcover
2004 Tony Daniel: Superluminal [HarperCollins/Eos, May 2004] hardcover
2004 Bill Fawcett, editor: Masters of Fantasy [Baen, May 2004]
anthology, hardcover
2004 Amanda Hemingway: The Cup of Blood [HarperCollins/Voyager, May 2004]
trade paperback)
2004 Tanith Lee: Cast a Bright Shadow [Macmillan/Tor UK, May 2004] trade paperback)
2004 Jane Lindskold: The Buried Pyramid [Tor, May 2004] hardcover)
2004 Louise Marley: The Child Goddess [Ace, May 2004] hardcover
2004 Bruce Sterling: The Zenith Angle [Ballantine Del Rey, May 2004] hardcover)
2004 Charles Stross: The Atrocity Archives [Golden Gryphon Press, May 2004] story collection, hardcover)
2004 Peter Watts: Behemoth [Tor, May 2004] hardcover
2004 Leslie What: Olympic Games [Tachyon Publications, May 2004] trade paperback)
2004 Chris Wooding: The Skein of Lament [Orion/Gollancz, May 2004]
hardcover/trade paperback Ê
2004 Ashok K. Banker: Siege of Mithila [Warner Aspect, June 2004]
hardcover, 1st US edition
2004 Paul Brandon: The Wild Reel [Tor, June 2004] hardcover)
2004 C. J. Cherryh: Forge of Heaven [HarperCollins/Eos, June 2004] hardcover)
2004 Andy Duncan & F. Brett Cox, editors:
Crossroads: Southern Stories of the Fantastic
[Tor, June 2004] anth, hardcover)
2004 Steven Erikson: Gardens of the Moon [Tor, June 2004] hardcover
1st US edition
2004 David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, editors: Year's Best SF 9
[HarperCollins/Eos, June 2004] anthology
2004 Tom Holt: In Your Dreams [Time Warner UK/Orbit, June 2004] hardcover
2004 Gwyneth Jones: Band of Gypsies [Orion/Gollancz, June 2004]
hardcover/trade paperback)
2004 Dean Koontz: The Taking [Bantam, June 2004] hardcover)
2004 Pat Lupoff & Dick Lupoff, editors: Best of Xero
[Tachyon Publications, June 2004] non-fiction, trade paperback
2004 Ian R. MacLeod: Breathmoss and Other Exhalations
[Golden Gryphon Press, June 2004] story collection, hardcover)
2004 George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows [Bantam Spectra, June 2004]
1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Lyda Morehouse: Apocalypse Array [Penguin/Roc, June 2004]
2004 Larry Niven: Ringworld's Children [Time Warner UK/Orbit, June 2004] hardcover)
2004 Alastair Reynolds: Absolution Gap [Ace, June 2004]
1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Kim Stanley Robinson: Forty Signs of Rain [Bantam, June 2004]
1st US edition, hardcover
2004 Al Sarrantonio, editor: Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy
[Penguin/Roc, June 2004] anth, hardcover)
2004 Jeff VanderMeer: Secret Life [Golden Gryphon Press, June 2004]
story collection, hardcover)
2004 Gene Wolfe: Innocents Abroad [Tor, June 2004] story collection, hardcover
July-December 2004 {to be done}
2005 Ê{to be done}
2006 Ê{to be done}
2007 Ê{to be done}
2008 Ê{to be done}
2009 Ê{to be done}
2010 Ê{to be done}
Major Films of this Decade 2000-2010
1999 Galaxy Quest [DreamWorks SKG], Director: Dean Parisot;
screenplay by David Howard and Robert Gordon; story by David Howard;
Winner, 2000 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Films of 2000
Films of 2001
Films of 2002
Films of 2003
Films of 2004
Films of 2005
Films of 2006
Films of 2007
Films of 2008 {to be done}
Films of 2009 {to be done}
Films of 2010 {to be done}
2000 Films:
2000 Alien: Resurrection
2000 Aquarius
2000 Astronomy of Errors; [comedy] 84-minutes;
2000 Attack of the Giant Moussaka
2000 The Battle of Little Roger Mead;
9-minute short; [musical/comedy/sci-fi]
2000 Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard;
Director: Roger Christian;
Starring: John Travolta; Barry Pepper; Forest Whitaker; Tim Post
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2000 Blood Drinkers
2000 Blood Red Planet
2000 Blue Matrix; hardcore sex sci-fi
2000 Blue Planet [animated]
2000 Carapaces; French 7-minute short, adapted from comic
2000 The Cell; R-rated [violence/sex/nudity/language]
USA/Gemany production; stylish psychiatric thriller/science fiction;
Director: Tarsem Singh;
Screenplay: Mark Protosevich;
Starring:
Jennifer Lopez as Catherine Deane;
Vincent D'Onofrio as Carl Rudolph Stargher
2000 The Convent [Horror] [R-rated]
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Winner, 2001 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
2000 Dog Days; 24-minute; bleak post-apocalypse
2000 Donggam [Asian title; also known as "Ditto"]
2000 Dude, Where's My Car? [comedy]
Starring: Ashton Kutcher [first major film role since
TV series "That 70's Shoe"]
2000 Dune; television mini-series; 3 90-minute episodes;
also known as Frank Herbert's Dune;
writer/director John Harrison;
William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides;
US/Canada/Germany/Italy/Czech Republic production
2000 Exit; French; 110 minutes; Crime/Sci-Fi
2000 Explodium; 3-minute Canadian comedy [animation]
2000 Fade; Spanish, 22-minute short
2000 Foiled [Britain] [comedy]
Director: Henry Burrows;
Adatpted from Play by Henry Burrows;
2000 Freeware [animation] 7 minutes;
Writer/Director: Alex Orrelle
2000 Frequency;
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last updated 29 July 2003
2000 Furia; France; 90 minutes;
Writer/Director: Alexandre Aja
2000 Guardian; Crime/Sci-Fi/Thriller; 89 minutes;
Writer/Director: John Terlesky
Plot: drug called "Chaos" must be stopped by LAPD
2000 Happy Accidents; Comedy/Romance/Sci-Fi;
Writer/Director: Sam Anderson;
Marisa Tomei as Ruby Weaver;
Vincent D'Onofrio as Sam Deed
2000 The Hayflick Limit; Denmark; 9 minutes;
Writer/Director: Ulrik Horten
2000 Heavy Metal 2000; animated; 88-minutes; Canada/USA/Germany;
2000 Highlander: Endgame; 4th in series; 87 minutes;
Adrian Paul as Dncan MacLeod;
Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod
2000 Hollow Man; [Rated R]; 112 Minutes;
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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Elisabeth Shue;
Kevin Bacon;
Josh Brolin;
2000 I. K. U.; [Rated X] [Japan; Japanese/English language]
Sex Robot
2000 Intolerance
2000 Last Summer; TV Movie; 52-minutes;
Candian end-of-the-world feature;
adapted from story by P. K. Page;
Director: Anna Tchernakova
2000 The Lift; 16-minute short science fiction;
sardonic take on Afterlife as part of corporate globalism;
Writer/Director Jason Allen
2000 L.I.N.X.
Writer/Director: Bryan Bagby
90 Minutes;
Time Travel {hotlink to be done}
2000 Last Stand
2000 Lava
Germany; Crime/Comedy/Sci-Fi; 83 Minutes
2000 Lensman: Power of the Lens [anime]
2000 The Limited; 12 minute short; quirky look at Afterlife;
writer/director Katherine Makinney
2000 Mars and Beyond; allegedly a comedy;
Writer/Director: Herbert Wright;
Edward Asner;
Majel Barrett
2000 Men in Black Alien Attack [Universal Studios (Florida)
Theme Park Ride]
2000 Millennium's End: The Fandom Menace [parody]
2000 Mission to Mars;
Director: Brian De Palma;
113 Minutes; rescue mission by 2nd manned Mars mission;
Starring:
Gary Sinise;
Tim Robbins;
Don Cheadle;
Connie Nielsen;
Jerry O'Connell;
Peter Outerbridge;
2000 Moloch [animation] Czech Republic
2000 Mr. Plimpton [short Mystery/Sci-Fi]
Writer/Director: Savvas Paritsis
2000 Memoire Morte [France; short Sci-Fi/Thriller]
Writer/Director: Jean-Jacques Dumonceau
2000 Narcosys [Australia] [Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller]
85 Minutes
2000 Nico & Parker [Uruguay; Spanish language; short]
2000 Nightfall; also known as "Isaac Asimov's Nightfall"
Adapted from Isaac Asimov story by John William Corrington;
Director: Gwyneth Gibby;
82 Minutes;
on a planet in a multiple-star system, where night falls only once in
a thousand years; civilization nears self-destruction
2000 Nomina Domine [Switzerland; German language]
22 minutes; technophobic Horror
2000 Nostradamus [USA/Canada]
88 Minutes; cops versus medieval cult with real magic
2000 Odd Noggins [Horror/Comedy]
2000 Oregon
short; 12 Minutes;
cigarette smoking is capital crime in hyper-conformist dystopia
2000 Pitch Black [Horror/Sci-Fi]
[USA/Australia]
Nasty deadly aliens come out at night in ringed
multi-sun planet; astronomy is all wrong;
Director: David Twohy;
Starring:
Vin Diesel
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2000 Plunge [22-minute short; black and white]
2000 Possible Worlds [Canada; English language]
Mystery/Science Fiction; 93 minutes;
Writer/Director: Robert Lepage;
one man in several alternate worlds and alternate lives
2000 Radius [short; 33 Minutes]
2000 Re-Minding [short] [Switzerland; German language]
Writer/Director: Simon Spiegel;
drug distorts memories
2000 Red Planet
Director: Anthony Hoffman;
Screenplay: Check Pfarrer, Jonathan Lemkin;
106 Minutes;
Starring:
Val Kilmer;
Carrie-Ann Moss;
Benjamin Bratt;
Tom Sizemore;
Simon Baker;
Terence Stamp;
2000 Revolution [animated short; 9 minutes; musical/comedy/sci-fi]
Writer/Director: Manuel Otero
2000 Robot Love [comedy/sci-fi short]
2000 Roy [Canadian] [11-minute short] surrealistic
2000 Seven Storeys [Canada] [Hospital Horror] [25 Minutes]
Writer/Director: Boris Ivanov
2000 The Six-Minute Time Slacker [comedy/sci-fi] [6 Minutes]
2000 Software [short; comedy/sci-fi]
Writer/Director: Scott Billups;
Adapted from Rudy Rucker novel;
2000 Space Cowboys
Director: Clint Eastwood;
Screenply: Ken Kaufman & Howard Klausner;
Too-old ex-astronaut trainees needed to stop
military satellite catastrophe; celever and funny;
good space sequences;
130 Minutes;
Starring:
Clint Eastwood;
Tommy Lee Jones;
Donald Sutherland;
James Garner;
Jamew Cromwell;
Marcia Gay Harden;
William DeVane;
2000 Spiders [Rated R]
2000 Split
[Sci-fi/Thriller]
Writer/Director: Chaim Bianco
2000 Starforce [Rated R: violence] [93 minutes]
soldier, ex-con babe, commandos, savage planet
2000 Static
Writer/Director: Paul Giorgi Sam Grossman;
2000 Submitted For Your Approval; 32-minute short;
Writer/Director: Paul Giorgi
2000 Supernova [Rated PG; 90 minutes]
Directors: Walter Hill, Francis Ford Coppola;
all hell breaks loose in medical spaceship rescue gone awry;
Starring:
James Spader;
Angela Bassett;
Robert Forster;
Lou Diamond Phillips;
2000 Sync [Mystery/Thriller/Sci-Fi]
Writer/Director: Aaron Michael Lacey;
135 minutes;
Clones [hotlink to be done}
2000 They Nest; also known as "Creepy Crawlers" [made for TV]
2000 This Guy is Falling [comedy short; 12 minutes]
Writer/Director: Michael Horowitz
winner of an Aspen Sundance Award
2000 Time With Nyenne [British] [Short]
Writer/Director: Olivier Beguin;
2000 Titan A.E. [animated] [