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Executive Summary of the Decade
     Astronomy and Space
     Politics
     Economics
     Biology and Medicine
     Other Science and Technology
     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
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Executive Summary of the Decade 2010-2020
  
The decade from 2010 to 2020 is not over yet, as I write this.  But we can 
already see that certain events and science fiction are already important. 
This decade included the dramatic commercialization and penetration of 
World Wide Web culture; the explosion of genotechnology; 
the first hundred million entertainment, retail, and household robots; 
the commercial development (and first market crash) of Nanotechnology. 
Technically, the Voyager 1's passage beyond the Transition Zone and across the 
Heliopause marked a start to the First Interstellar Age.

The last vestiges of the Cold War paradigm faded.  The bipolar world
(Capitalism versus Communism) was replaced by a multipolar world, with
the economic balance between the North and South American Free Trade Zone,
Greater Common Europe, and the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.  Still 
unsettled was the question of whether there was still an underlying Clash of 
Civilizations (Judeo-Christian, Islam, Hindu, Shinto-Confucian, Animist),
a have-versus-have-not division between Northern and Southern Hemispheres,
or whether the realignment along Pre-Modern, Modern, and Post-Modern 
pseudonations was crucial.

World War III had long past (Korea, Vietnam, and various proxy wars)
and World War IV (Bush I's Iraq War, Bush II's Afghan-Iraq-Chad-Somalia 
War) merged with the so-called War Against Terrorism as part of the 
transitional chaos before the New World Paradigm stabilized.

Among Christians, the Easter of 24 April 2010 was the latest in the season 
since 1943.

The Ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar ended on 21 December 2012, causing
messianic unrest in parts of South America.  The world did not come to an 
end.  That year, 2012, included the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II 
of Great Britain.  She pointedly did NOT step down to allow Charles to 
become king, even though tabloids hinted that she would on the condition 
that he almost immediately step down and allow the coronation of Henry IX.

There were the amusingly symmetrical dates abbreviated as:
* 10/10/10
* 11/11/11 [with its later, tragic resonance]
* 12/12/12

The impact of Technology was perhaps the dominant theme of the decade.
First, there were the 25 major technologies not quite commercially 
effective, but clearly on the verge of market success:

    

  1. A.I.: True Artificial Intelligence
    2. 
          Political backlash attempts to "preclude singularity"

  2. Practical use of sustained Fusion for energy and neutrons
    3. 
          Super-cheap desalinization of seawater ends Fresh Water Crisis

  3. Artifical growth of new limbs and organs, in situ and for transplantation
    4. 
          Robotic-limb Backlash as predicted by Bernard Wolfe in "Limbo"

  4. Room temperature superconductors
    5. 
          Super-cheap electrical power distribution; mag-levitation trains

  5. Major use of rockets for commercial and private transportation (Earth 
     and beyond)
    6. 

  6. Effective chemical or biological treatment for most mental illnesses
    7. 
          Political dissent on whether or not Therapy should be mandatory

  7. Almost complete control of marginal changes in heredity
    8. 
          Conservative backlash against genetic modification of humans

  8. Suspended animation (years or centuries)
    9. 
          Maximum length of this technology unknown until 22nd century

  9. Practical materials with nearly theoretical limit strength (nanotubes, etc.
    10. 
          Plans to build "orbital skyhooks" or "space elevators"

  10. Conversion of mammals to fluid-breathers
    11. 
          Covert military maneuvering on the Continental Shelves

  11. Direct input into human memory
    12. 
          "We can remeber it for you wholesale"

  12. Direct augmentation of human mental capacity by brain-computer connection
    13. 
          Brain-race between post-modern superpowers

  13. Major rejuvenation and/or significant extension of vigor and lifespan 
     (100-150 years)
    14.  Maximum length of this technology unknown until 22nd century

  14. Chemical and biological control of human character and intelligence
    15. 

  15. Automated highways
    16. 
          Higher traffic density, fewer accidents, reconfiguration of suburbs

  16. Extensive use of moving sidewalks and Segways
    17. 
          Continuum from Pedestrians to vehicular traffic

  17. Substantial lunar and planned planetary installations
    18. 
          Start of multiplanetary economy

  18. Electric power available for under 0.3 mill per kilowatt hour
    19. 
          semi-industrialization of pre-modern world

  19. Verification of some extrasensory phenomena
    20. 

  20. Planetary engineering
    21. 
          tested on minor moons, asteroids

  21. Modification of the Solar System
    22. 
          Competing proposals

  22. Practical laboratory conception and nurturing of animal and human foetuses
    23. 
          "Brave New World"

  23. Production of recreational drugs equivalent to Huxley's Soma
    24. 
          Neo-opium is the Religion of the Masses

  24. Technological equivalent of telepathy (brain-computer-brain web)
    25. 
          Post-human group-think entities

  25. Some direct control of individual thought processes
    26. 
          Meme Wars




Astronomy and Space:


The first truly Earthlike planet was discovered by the European Darwin 
space telescope on April 1, 2010. NASA's Kepler [launched October 2007]
had already begun its 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.

In 2015, the 30-meter telescope was completed by the team of Caltech, the 
University of California, and AURA Associated Universities for Research in 
Astronomy).  It joins the deeper look into the sky begun by the 20-meter 
Giant Magellan telescope, at an altitude of 8,000 feet in the Chilean Andes.
Work on the OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope), with 100 meter mirror 
array) was delayed due to budget problems in the European Southern 
Observatory. These telescopes were on the threshhold of being able to 
detect Earth-like planets themselves.  The OWL is expected to be able to 
allow spectroscopy of Earth-like planets, to search for signs of life and 
civilization.

Astronomers finally understood why the expansion of universe was 
accelerating.  The polarized Cosmic background radiation was studied for 
its anomaly, which some scientists theorized was signs of a once-widespread 
alien life-form. Over 10,000,000 Solar Systems were discovered by the end 
of the decade, around nearby stars. A statistical theory of planetary 
evolution was created, revised, and contributed to an improved estimate 
(via the Drake Equation) of how many extraterrestrial civilizations might 
exist.

Thousands of "mini-moons" were discovered in our own solar system, mostly around 
Jupiter and Saturn. The Solar Neutrino puzzle, which was considered solved (2002)
came under new scrutiny with the announced discovery of the supersymmetric 
Sneutrino. 

The Dark Matter universe, ten times more massive than the visible universe, 
was mapped in fine detail, and revealed an unexpected likelihood of dark 
matter planets in profusion.

Japan and India became the 4th and 5th countries to put human beings in orbit 
[2010,2011]. China, of course, was 3rd [2003] and now had made its manned 
Moon landing, with tragic consequences.

The Decade 2010-2020 included the New International Space Station finally up 
and running, but with a much-reduced crew of 8 and uncertain purpose. The 
old International Space Station space station was saved from crashing to Earth  
and boosted to Clarke Orbit. 

The American Space Shuttle program limped to its end, and the Space Cruiser 
replaced it, with the first flight of the Hummingbird [2011] and the MOTV 
(Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle).

The largest planetary objects discovered since Pluto (1930) and Quaoar
(2002) were discovered four to eleven billion miles away, several more than
half the size of Pluto.  The UN Space Agency announced plans for robust 
robotic exploration of the "Plutinos" in the Kuiper Belt.

There was a rare Transit of Venus on 6 June 2012. This event, when Venus 
passes between the Sun and the Earth, has only happened seven times earlier 
since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882, 
8 June 2004) and will not happen again until 2117 and 2175.

There were two long-anticipated close encounters of asteroids with Earth:
* 2 Sep 2014, asteroid 2003QQ47, 1.2 kilometers in diameter
* 1 Feb 2019, Near earth Object 2002NT7

The UN Asteroid Deflection Program continued demonstrations, despite 
global protests over the weaponized deflection of a 500-meter asteroid 
that missed Earth by only 20,000 miles [2019].

Far beyond Pluto, and 36 years after launch, the Voyager 1 spacecraft
passed the Termination Shock, and the Heliopause: the boundary between the 
Solar Wind and the interstellar medium.  Some historians considered this 
[Nov 2013] the start of the First Interstellar Age.

The schism over data from satellites, which partly confirmed the theory of 
Global Warming, deepened. This leads to the huge Kyoto 2 conference, and 
the fall of three national governments.

In February 2004, the European Space Agency had launched Rosetta for rendezvous 
with and landing on comet Churymov-Gerasmineko -- which landing occurred in 
November 2014.

In January 2006, the New Horizons Pluto Kuiper 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.

NASA's Dawn mission [launched May 2006], whose solar electric 
ion propulsion brought it to asteroid 4 Vesta in July 2010, next orbited 
for 11 months, and then accelerated on to asteroid 1 Ceres in August 2014.

August 2009: European Space Agency launch 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, made exciting 
discoveries, and prompted the hit Heinlein Estate 3Dfilm "Farmer in the Sky"
and a public call for human presence in the Outer Planets.

Total and Annular Solar Eclipses 2010-2020
15 Jan 2010  Annular  (longest-lasting annular eclipse of the 21st century)
11 Jan 2010  Total
20 May 2012  Annular  Asia, Pacific, North America
13 Nov 2012  Total    Australia, New Zealand, S. Pacific, S. South America
10 May 2013  Annular  Australia, New Zealand, central Pacific
20 Mar 2015  Total    Iceland, Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia
9  Mar 2016  Total    E. Asia, Australia, Pacific
1  Sep 2016  Annular  Iceland, Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia
26 Feb 2017  Annular  S. South America, Atlantic, Africa, Antarctica
21 Aug 2017  Total    North America, N. South America
2 July 2019  Total    S. Pacific, South America
26 Dec 2019  Annular  Asia, Australia
21 Jan 2020  Annular  Africa, SE Europe, Asia
14 Dec 2020  Total    Pacific, S. South America, Antarctica


Politics (World):


The trend towards increasing urbanization profoundly affected the 
demographics and politics of the world. More than half of all human beings 
now lived in cities. The world's urban population was projected to rise 
from 3.3 billion in 2003, to 5.0 billion n 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]

One way of analyzing the world was in terms of Pre-Modern, Modern, and 
Post-Modern populations.

We see the subdivision into six economic groupings as follows:

Late Post-Modern:


Large and Fractally Pre/Post-Modern:


Early Post-Modern:


Late Modern:


Early Modern:


Pre-Modern, Pre-Industrial, or Small and Partly Industrial:


[see "The Year 2000", Herman Kahn & Anthony Wiener, MacMillan, 1967, p.60]

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 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 2011 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 2012 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 2013 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.


Politics (USA Viewpoint):

This was the decade when the United States began regaining some of its 
approval from around the world, after the botched adventures in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia (2nd time), Chad, Indonesia, and Bhutan.

The near-revolution that followed the actions of President Hillary Clinton
[2012-2015] was calmed in the administration of Colin Powell.

The memory of "9/11" faded, but was eclipsed by the Bioterrorism
of 11/11/11, in which Ebola 2 and Para-Polio killed 51,000 people.

There was a high-tech competition between the USA and the new Space 
Powers of China and India.  India had long-since displaced Silicon Valley 
as the region of greatest software employment, but the combined 
Cybercenters and Biotech centers of Greater San Francisco, San Diego/La Jolla, 
Pasadena/L.A., New York, and Boston/Cambridge kept America competitive.


Economics:

The "Second Dot-Com Boom" and "Nanotech Boom" in the stock markets crashed 
dramatically, erasing over three trillion dollars in paper wealth.  This dragged 
the real economy of the United States into a recession, which did the world 
economy no good.  The recession officially ended in 2015, but even afterwards 
there were 31 consecutive months of job loss in the USA, caused in part by 
the steady rise of Home and Retail Robotics. 

Scandals rocked the economy with criminally bad news from Nron (2012), 
Worldscom (2013), and other giant firms with fraudulent XML accounting.  
Globalization and the New World Economic Order produced decidedly mixed 
results, with the division of the world's populations into Pre-Modern, 
Modern, and Post-Modern pseudonations.

In the United States, the Baby Boomer generation consisted of those born 
in the period 1946-1964.  Baby Boomers had begun turning 65 (a common age 
for retirement) in 2011, and had all turned 65 (or died) by 2029.
It was no surprise, then, that the "Pension Bomb" was smoking by 2011
and that the Social Security and Medicare systems in their original forms 
would have gone bankrupt before 2020, had not Presidents Hillary Clinton 
and Colin Powell forced fundamental change past the resentful Baby 
Boomers. The new Federal funding of Rejuvenation research and treatment 
was a bribe, in essence, to avoid outright revolution.

By 2000 A.D., 25% of all US employment was in job titles that didn't even 
exist in 1967, a third of a century earlier.  This trend continued.  By 
the year 2020, substantially more than 50% of all employment was in job titles 
that didn't exist in 1967, such as:


Economic Cycles (USA)
Economically, there are the following cycles:
* 1895-1906 Return of prosperity
* 1907-1908 Panic of 1907 
* 1909-1918 Prosperity and war boom [World War I]
* 1920-1921 Sharp postwar recession
* 1922-1929 Speculative boom 
* 1929-1939 Great Depression 
* 1939-1945 Wartime recovery [World War II]
* 1946-1949 Postwar boom 
* 1950-1956 Korean war and postwar readjustment
* 1957-1958 Recession 
* 1958-1970 Extended business expansion 
* 1970-1980 Inflation rates increased, while economic growth rates declined 
* 1981-1982 Recession
* 1983-1988 Business expansion 
* 1989-1991 Recession [Bush 1]
* 1992-2000 Greatest economic expansion ever [Clinton/Gore]
* 2001-2003 Recession [Dot-Com bust, Bush 2 deficits]
* 2004-2009 Business expansion [2nd Dot-Com boom; 1st Nanotech boom]
* 2010-2015 Extended recession, associated with "Pension Bomb", Com/Nano bust
* 2016-2020 Business Expansion, Nano/Robotics/Cybermation adjustments
* 2021-2022 Recession Forecast, plans to "program it soft"
* 2023-2031 Extended business expansion forecast (1st multiplanetary economy)

[Extrapolated from: "A History of American Agriculture 1776-1990"]

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 2010 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 2011 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 2012 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)."


Biology and Medicine:

The Decade 2010-2020 included debate and protest over GM (Genetically 
Modified) mammels, the Stem Cell Revolution, and the initial denial of 
Civil Rights to Human Clones.

A series of snail-mailings of Ebola 2 and Para-Polio (Fall 2011)
killed 51,000 people, emptied government buildings, and terrified much of the 
world. Yet this triggered the growth of the UN Bio Threat apparatus.
Mad Pig disease hurt the pork industry in Southeast Asia and parts of 
Africa, but were successfully blocked from wider proliferation. 
A fossil skull found (2011) in Tuva (Mongolia) revised our ideas about human 
origins.

Robots were, for the first time (2002) controlled by direct brain to 
computer interface.  The mouse genome was sequnced (2002). The genomes of 
mosquito and malarial parasite were sequenced (2002). The rice genome was 
sequenced (2002). 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 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."


Other Science and Technology:

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).

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 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].


Entertainment:

J. K. Rowling, thanks to the "Harry Potter" series of novels and movies, 
became the first Billionaire Writer in history.

On-line entertainment programs displaced broadcast television in total 
market value and number of viewers in 2015. Hologrammatic motion pictures 
reached 10% of box office gross in 2019.

Olympics were held:


The FIFA World Cups, the biggest event in world sports, featured 
football/soccer in:


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 -- and then Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" (2010)
and "Silmarillion" (2014) made one wonder. 

Other huge 3DFilm box-office hits included Spider-Man 6; X-Men 5 (2010); 
The Matrix 7 (2012); Men in Black 5 (2012); Shrek 5 (2013); 
Star Wars: Attack of the Wookies (2014); Super-Fly (2015); 
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (2016), Alien Vs. Predator 3 (2016),
Fantastic Four 4 (2014); Hellboy 3 (2014); Asimov's Robot Empire (2014);
A Sound of Thunder 2 (2014); The Demolished Man 2: The Stars My Destination (2015); 
Farenheit 451-2 (2015); Iron Man 3 (2015); Jurassic Park 7 (2015); 
Star Wars: Episode III (2005); Spider-Man 3 (2006);
X-Men 8 (2016); and Rendezvous With Rama 2+3 (2016).

The murders of Eminem and Tiger Woods proved that neo-racism in the USA
was present, despite official denials.

There was a Winter Olympics (2010) in Vancouver, Canada;
a Summer Olympics (2012) in Rio de Janiero, Brazil; a Winter Olympics (2014)
in Banff; a Summer Olympics (2016) in New York City; a Winter Olympics 
(2018) in Lima, Peru; and a Summer Olympics (2020) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

There were literary centennials celebrated of the birth of:

1910     John W. Campbell, Jr.
1910     Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
1910     Fritz Leiber

1911     Anthony Boucher (21 Aug 1911)
1911     Jack Finney
1911     C. L. Moore
1911     Mervyn Peake

1912     Alice Mary Norton (wrote as Andre Norton and Andrew North)
1912     A. E. Van Vogt

1913     Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (wrote as Cordwainer Smith)

1914     Edd Cartier (1 Aug 1914) Artist
1914     Howard Fast
1914     Martin Gardner
1914     R. A. Lafferty
1914     Wilson Tucker

1915     Saul Bellow
1915     Charles L. Harness
1915     Henry Kuttner
1915     Alice Sheldon (wrote as James Tiptree, Jr.)
1915     T. L. Sherred (27 Aug 1915)
1915     Leonard Wibberly
1915     Bernard Wolfe (28 Sep 1915)

1916     Forrest J. Ackerman
1916     Roald Dahl (13 Sep 1916)
1916     Robert A. W. Lowndes (4 Sep 1916-14 July 1998)
1916     Mary Stewart
1916     Jack Vance (28 Aug 1916)

1917     Robert Bloch 
1917     Arthur C. Clarke
1917     Robert Conquest
1917     Charles L. Fontenay
1917     Rex Gordon

1918     Philip Jose Farmer
1918     Theodore Sturgeon
1918     Walter Sullivan

1919     John Boyd
1919     Doris Lessing
1919     Primo Levi
1919     Frederik Pohl
1919     Milton A. Rothman
1919     E. C. Tubb

1920     Richard Adams
1920     Isaac Asimov
1920     Ray Bradbury (22 Aug 1920)
1920     Frank Herbert
1920     P. D. James
1920     William Tenn
1920     Theodore L. Thomas
1920     Richard Wilson (23 Sep 1920)
 
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 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 2011 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 2012 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 2013 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 
Inventions and Innovations
 
of 2000-2010 that shaped the culture:

The 100 mature major innovations that shaped the era were:

    

  1. Multiple applications of lasers and masers, for sensing, measurement, 
     communications, cutting, heating, welding, power transmission, 
     illumination, war and defense
    2. 

  2. Extreme high-strength and high-temperature structural materials
    3. 

  3. New or improved superperformance fabrics (papers, fibers, plastics)
    4. 

  4. New or improved materials for equipment and appliances (plastics, 
     glasses, alloys, ceramics, intermetallics, cermets)
    5. 

  5. New or improved airborne vehicles (ground-effect machines, VTOL, STOL, 
     superhelicopters, giant and supersonic jets
    6. 

  6. Extensive commercial use of shaped-charge explosives
    7. 

  7. More reliable and long-range weather-forecasting
    8. 

  8. Intensive and/or extensive expansion of tropical agriculture and forestry
    9. 

  9. New sources of power for fixed instllations (magnetohydrodynamic, thermionic,
     thermoelectric, radiactive
    10. 

  10. New sources of power for ground transportation
     (strarge battery, fuel cell, propulsion/support by electromagnetic 
     fields, jet engine, turbine, etc.)
    11. 

  11. Intensive and/or extensive worldwide use of high altitude cameras for 
     mapping, prospecting, census, land use, geology
    12. 

  12. New methods of water transportation (large submarines, flexible and 
     special-purpose container ships, large automated single-purpose cargo ships)
    13. 

  13. Major reduction in hereditary and congenital defects
    14. 

  14. Extensive use of cyborg techniques (mechanical aids/substitutes for 
     human organs, limbs, senses, etc.)
    15. 

  15. New techniques for preserving and improving the environment
    16. 

  16. Relatively effective appetite and weight control
    17. 

  17. New techniques and institutions for adult education
    18. 

  18. New and useful plant and animal species
    19. 

  19. Human hibernation for short periods (hours or days) for medical purposes
    20. 

  20. Inexpensive design and procurement of "one of a kind" items through 
     computer-aided design and automated production
    21. 

  21. Controlled and supereffective relaxation and sleep
    22. 

  22. More sophisticated architectural engineering (geodesic domes, "fancy" 
     stressed shells, pressurized skins, esoteric materials)
    23. 

  23. New or improved use of the oceans (mining, mineral extraction, 
     aquifarming, energy sources, etc.)
    24. 

  24. Three-dimensional photography, illustrations, movies, television
    25. 

  25. Automated and more mechanized housekeeping and home maintenance
    26. 

  26. Widespread use of new safer nuclear (fission) reactors for power
    27. 

  27. Use of nuclear explosives for excavation, mining, generation of power, 
     creation of high temperature high pressure environments, and as a 
     source of netrons and other radiation [issue of preventing use by 
     terrorists]
    28. 

  28. General use of automation and cybernation in management and production
    29. 

  29. Extensive and intensive centralization and automatic interconnection 
     of current and past personal and business information in high-speed 
     computers
    30. 

  30. New and pervasive techniques for surveillance, monitoring, and control 
     of individuals and organizations
    31. 

  31. Some control of weather and/or climate
    32. 

  32. Permanent and temporary changes/experiments with the overall environment
    33. 

  33. New and more reliable educational and propaganda techniques for 
     affecting human public and private behavior
    34. 

  34. Practical use of direct electronic communication with and stimulation 
     of the brain
    35. 

  35. Human hibernation for relatively extensive periods (months or years)
    36. 

  36. Cheap and widely available central war weapons and and weapon systems
    37. 

  37. New and relatively effective counterinsurgency techniques (in 
     escalation with new and relatively effective insurgency techniques
    38. 

  38. New techniques for very cheap, convenient, reliable birth control
    39. 

  39. New more varied and more reliable drugs for control of fatigue, 
     relaxation, alertness, mood, personality, perceptions, fantasies, and other 
     psychobiological states
    40. 

  40. Capability to choose the sex of unborn children
    41. 

  41. Improved capability to change the sex of children or adults
    42. 

  42. Other genetic control/influence over "basic constitution" of an individual
    43. 

  43. New techniques and institutions for child education
    44. 

  44. General and substantial increase in life expectancy, postponement of 
     aging, and limited rejuvenation
    45. 

  45. Generally acceptable and competitive synthetic foods and beverages 
     (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, enzymes, vitamins, coffee, tea, cocoa, 
     alcholic liquor)
    46. 

  46. "High quality" medical care for underdeveloped (pre-Modern) areas 
     (i.e. use of medical aides and technicians, referral hospitals, broad 
     spectrum antibiotics, artifical blood plasma)
    47. 

  47. Design and use of responsive and supercontrolled environments for 
     private and public use (for pleasure, education, vocational purposes)
    48. 

  48. Physically nonharmful methods of overindulging
    49. 

  49. Simple techniques for extensive and "permanent" cosmetological changes 
     (features, figures, complexion, skin color, physique)
    50. 

  50. More extensive use of transplantation of human organs
    51. 

  51. Permanent manned satellite and lunar installations; interplanetary travel
    52. 

  52. Application of space life systems or similar techniques to terrestrial 
     installations (Closed Environmental Life Support Systems)
    53. 

  53. Permanent inhabited undersea installations and/or colonies
    54. 

  54. Automated grocery and department stores
    55. 

  55. Extensive use of robots and machines "slaved" to humans
    56. 

  56. New use of underground tunnels for private and public transportation 
     (and to limit surveillance)
    57. 

  57. Automated universal real-time credit, audit, and banking systems
    58. 

  58. Chemical methods for improving memory and learning
    59. 

  59. Greater use of underground buildings
    60. 

  60. New and improved materials and equipment for buildings and interiors 
     (variable transmission glass, thermoelectric heating/cooling, 
     electroluminescent and phosphorescent lighting)
    61. 

  61. Widespread use of cryogenics
    62. 

  62. Improved chemical control of some mental illnesses and some aspects of senility
    63. 

  63. Mechanical and chemical methods of improving human analytical ability 
     more or less directly
    64. 

  64. Inexpensive and rapid techniques for making tunnels and underground 
     cavities in earth and rock
    65. 

  65. Major improvements in earth moving and construction equipment generally
    66. 

  66. New techniques for keeping physically fit and/or acquiring physical skills
    67. 

  67. Commercial extraction of oil from shale
    68. 

  68. Recoverable boosters for economic space launching (beyond the Space Shuttle)
    69. 

  69. Individual flying platforms
    70. 

  70. Simpler and more inexpensive home video recording/playing/editing
    71. 

  71. Inexpensive high-capacity worldwide regional and local (home and 
     business) communications (high bandwidth internet, VOIP, wireless)
    72. 

  72. Net-Plus: Practical web-video, web-fax, with phone/TV convergence, for news, 
     entertainment, libraries, commercials, mail, etc.
    73. 

  73. Practical large-scale desalinization
    74. 

  74. Pervasive computers
    75. 

  75. Shared computer utility (metered use of large-scale computing)
    76. 

  76. Widespread use of computers for intellectual and professional 
     assistance (translation, teaching, literature search, medical diagnosis, 
     traffic control, crime detection, computation, design, analysis, and 
     to some extent as an intellectual collaborator)
    77. 

  77. General availability of inexpensive transuranic and other esoteric elements
    78. 

  78. Space defense systems ("Star Wars")
    79. 

  79. Inexpensive and reasonably effective ground-based ballistic missile defense
    80. 

  80. Very low-cost buildings for home and business use
    81. 

  81. Personal pagers, handheld computers, etc.
    82. 

  82. Direct broadcast satellites to cheap home receivers
    83. 

  83. Inexpensive (less than $20) small battery-operated TV
    84. 

  84. Home computers widely used to run the household and communicate with world
    85. 

  85. Maintenance-free long-life electronic and other equipment
    86. 

  86. Home education via video, web. computer-assisted programmed learning
    87. 

  87. Stimulated, planned, and/or programmed dreams
    88. 

  88. Cheap (under a penny per page) rapid high-quality black-and-white 
     reproduction, later followed by color, for home and office
    89. 

  89. Widespread use of improved fluid amplifiers (fluidics)
    90. 

  90. Conference TV (video collaborationware)
    91. 

  91. Flexible penology without necessarily using prisons (using post-modern 
     surveillance, monitoring, control)
    92. 

  92. Common use of longlived individual power sources for lights, appliances, machines
    93. 

  93. Inexpensive worldwide transportation of humans and cargo
    94. 

  94. Inexpensive road-free and facility free transportation
    95. 

  95. New methods for rapid language teaching
    96. 

  96. Extensive genetic control for plants and animals
    97. 

  97. New biological and chemical methods to identify, trace, incapacitate, 
     or annoy people for police and military use
    98. 

  98. New and possibly very simple methods for lethal biological and chemical warfare
    99. 

  99. Artificial moons ("lunettas") and other methods for lighting large areas at night
    100. 

  100. Extensive use of biological processes in extracting/processing minerals
    101. 



[see "The Year 2000", Herman Kahn & Anthony Wiener, MacMillan, 1967, pp.51-55]


Major Books of the Decade 2000-2010

     Books of 2000
     Books of 2001
     Books of 2002
     Books of 2003
     Books of 2004


2000

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

{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

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]
     voted #9 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
     (thus did not make final ballot)

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  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  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  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  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  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]
     voted #14 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
     (thus did not make final ballot)

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]
     voted #2 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel;
     Awarded a special Philip K. Dick citation

2002  Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III: The Art of Chesley Bonestell
     Winner, 2002 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book

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,  [NAL]
     voted #7 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
     (thus did not make final ballot)

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)


2003

{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



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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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
     Sub-Genre: {visibility {hotlink to be done}
     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] [Don Bluth]
     beautiful to watch, visually speaking;
     94 Minutes;
     Starring [voices]:
          Drew Barrymore;
          Jim Breuer;
          Ken Hudson Campbell;

2000  Today's Life [short; 13 minutes]
     Writer/Director: Noah Kadner;
     astronaut in interstellar isolation broods on past, lost love;

2000  Tracker [Crime/Ghost/Romance/Sci-Fi] [Short]
     Writer/Director:  James Soward;
     
2000  Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust [animation] [Horror/Sci-Fi]
     [Japan/Hong Kong/USA]
     103 Minutes

2000  Waiting for the Giants
     Writer/Director:   Phillip Lacey
     88 Minutes

2000  What Planet Are You From? [comedy]
     [Rated R: sex and language]
     104 Minutes;
     Director: Mike Nichols;
     Screenplay: Gary Shandling & Michael Leeson;
     Starring: 
          Gary Shandling;
          Annette Bening;
          John Goodman;
          Linda Fiorentino;

2000  What Where [short] [Ireland]
     Director: Damien O'Donnell;
     Adapted from Samuel Beckett;
     future library, surviving humans harass each other grotesquely
     in this literary metaphysical creepy short;

2000  Wild Zero [Japan]
     [Sci-Fi/Comedy/Rock&Roll]
     98 Minutes

2000  X Change [Canada]
     Director: Allan Moyle;
     Screenplay: Christopher Pelham;
     future transportation is by exchanging bodies;
     this goes awry when terrorists steal protagonist's body;
     110 Minutes;
     Starring:
          Stephen Baldwin;
          Kyle MacLachlan

2000  X-Men [Rated PG]
     hit adaptation of Marvel comics series;
     Director: Brian Singer;
     Starring: 
          Hugh Jackman;
          Patrick Stewart;
          Ian McKellan;
          Halle Berry;
     104 Minutes;

2000  The 6th Day

2000  990714.com [Hong Kong]



2001 Films:


2001  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 
     Winner, 2002 Nebula Award for Best Script
     Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, & Peter Jackson [New Line Cinema]; 
     based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien 

2001  "2002"

2001  24/24

2001  Acceptable Risk

2001  Advanced Warriors

2001  Adventures of O-Girl Trapped in Time [direct to video]

2001  Aki's Dream [direct to video]

2001  Aliens Vs. Predator
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2001  Aliens: Colonial Marines

2001  The American Astronaut

2001  Anachronix

2001  Another Day

2001  Anti Trust

2001  Aquarios

2001  Area 52

2001  Arret d'urgence

2001  Artificial Intelligence: AI

2001  Asian Sex Super Spy [direct to video]

2001  Atlantis: The Lost Empire [animated]

2001  Avalon

2001  Avatars

2001  Beat the Blue

2001  Beer Money [Made for TV]

2001  Betaville

2001  Beyond the Lost World: Alien Conspiracy
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2001  Biohazardous

2001  Black Mask 2: City of Masks

2001  Black Noise

2001  Bodyjackers

2001  The Braindead

2001  The Breed

2001  The Brothers Grimm

2001  Caravan

2001  Chained Rage: Slave to Love [direct to video]

2001  Cheonsamong [also known as "Dream of a Warrior"]

2001  Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge [videogame]

2001  Commander Keen

2001  Conspiracy Guy: Beyond the Coat [Made for TV]

2001  Cowboy Bebop: Lnockin' on Heaven's Door [anime]

2001  Crime Cities

2001  Dakota Bound

2001  Date With a Vampire [direct to video]

2001  The Day the World Ended

2001  Deep Freeze [also known as "Ice Crawlers"]

2001  Deuces

2001  Diagnosis

2001  Donnie Darko  
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          The disturbed (schizophrenic?) medicated Junior High School 
     teenager Donnie Darko, during the 1988 Presidential Election, 
     sleepwalks out of his Middlesex, Iowa, home one night.  He is 
     confronted by a huge rabbit-demon named Frank who warns him that the 
     world will end "in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds."  
     The next morning, as he heads home, he is shocked to find that a jet 
     plane's turbine engine has crashed through his roof and bedroom.  His 
     vaguely dysfunctional family, and more totally dysfunctional school 
     are no help to his attempts to figure out why he survived, and how to 
     save the world.
         The creepy bunny becomes his guru, leading him to subversive and 
     destructive acts that escalate from overcoming the school bully, a 
     knee-jerk conservative Health Ed teacher, and a smarmy self-help 
     lecturer (Patrick Swayze as the cultish head Jim Cunningham of the 
     "Controlling Fear" seminars, which have entranced many in the town), 
     to vandalism, career-destruction, flooding the school, and arson 
     against a sexually perverted writer. That writer is the epitome of 
     specialization -- Donnie Darko insists that things are not so 
     simple -- one must recognize the entire spectrum of human emotions.
          The subtle plot eventually discloses that Donnie Darko did 
     actually die in "our" universe, and he's in a strange parallel 
     alternate reality.  He is faced with an ultimate choice: save the 
     world by sacrificing himself, or save himself in the tangent world by 
     dooming his home universe.  The ending resolves as weird a set of
     paradoxes as have ever been paradoctored.
          Donnie Darko is directed by Richard Kelly, and well-acted by Jake 
     Gyllenhaal as the title character
          Hip, clever, ironic, and unique.  Cool sound track, too. 
     Recommended.

2001  Earth vs. the Spider

2001  Ecks vs. Sever

2001  El

2001  Emmanuelle 2000

2001  Emperor: Battle for Dune [videogame]

2001  En mi tumba

2001  Enterprise: Broken Bow [made for TV]

2001  Euphoria [direct to video]

2001  Ever Since the World Ended

2001  The Evil Awakens

2001  Evolution 
     comedy/sci-fi
     Starring: David Duchovney
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2001  f8

2001  Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix [videogame]

2001  Final

2001  Final Fantasy: Chronicles [videogame]

2001  Final Fantasy X [videogame]

2001  Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within [computer animated]

2001  The Final True [direct to video]

2001  Flesh + Steel: the Making of "RoboCop" [direct to video]

2001  G Spots?

2001  Galactea (A conquista da via lactea)

2001  Gauntlet Dark Legacy [videogame]

2001  Ghost Reader

2001  Ghosts of Mars [also known as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars]

2001  Godzilla 2001

2001  Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora

2001  El Gran Marciano

2001  The Greatest Intergalactic Hero

2001  Die Grune Wolk

2001  Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Divers [anime]

2001  Half-Life: Blue Shift [videogame]

2001  Halo: Combat Evolved [videogame]

2001  Happiness is a Warm Gun

2001  Heavy Metal: Geomatrix [videogame]

2001  Hey, Happy!

2001  Holocausto Cannabis [direct to video]

2001  Horrorvision

2001  Horses on Mars

2001  How I Saved the World

2001  How to Make a Monster

2001  I/O Error

2001  Ice Planet

2001  Imagining Total Recall [direct to video]

2001  The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells

2001  Intolerance II: The Invasion

2001  Jan Tenner: Artefakt der Macht [videogame]

2001  Jason X

2001  Jetblast

2001  Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius [computer animated]

2001  Jurassic Park III

2001  K-PAX
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2001  Kosmonaut

2001  The Krone Experiment

2001  Kuen sun

2001  Kurzzeithelden

2001  Laura Crotch: Tomb Raider [parody]

2001  Lipgloss Explosion!

2001  Little Ricky

2001  Making of "Planet of the Apes" [made for TV]

2001  The Man with No Eyes

2001  Mech Warror 4: Black Knight Expansion [videogame]

2001  Metal

2001  Metropolis [anime]

2001  Micro-Gerbil

2001  Mimic 2

2001  Mind Meld: Secrets Beyond the Voyage of a Lifetime [direct to video]

2001  Mindstorm

2001  MOB 2025

2001  The Moon Project [videogame]

2001  Mujeres en un tren [also known as Women in a Train]

2001  Mutant Aliens

2001  Mutation 2: Generation Dead

2001  Never Die Twice

2001  New Detroit

2001  The New Woman

2001  N02

2001  El Numero

2001  Odyssee

2001  On the Edge [made for TV]

2001  The One

2001  Ortel

2001  Other Voices: Creating "The Terminator" [direct to video]

2001  Paipe

2001  Un Perro llamada Dolor [also known as "A Dog Called Pain"]

2001  The Pharoah Project

2001  Planet der Kannibalen

2001  Planet of the Apes [remake]

2001  Planet of the Apes [videogame]

2001  Planet of the Apes: Rule the Planet [Made for TV]

2001  The Prisoner [direct to video]

2001  Puni puni poemi [made for TV]

2001  Raptor [direct to video]

2001  Read or Die [direct to video]

2001  ReBoot: Daemon Rising [made for TV]

2001  Recoil

2001  The Remnant

2001  Replicant

2001  Return to Catle Wolfenstein [videogame]

2001  Rocketman X6 [videogame]

2001  Santa Cristal

2001  Santo: Infratesrrestre

2001  Saturday Night Fear

2001  Savage Season

2001  Scary Movie 2 [comedy]

2001  Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase [direct to video]

2001  Seduction of Cyber Jane

2001  Seung fei [also known as "Princess D"]

2001  Shadow Fury

2001  Shark Hunter

2001  She-Bat

2001  Shoo-Fly

2001  Shurayuki-Hime [also known as the Princess Blade"]

2001  Silent Story

2001  Simulacra

2001  Smash Cuts!  Super Sci-Fi Short Fest [direct to video]

2001  Sonic Adventure 2 [videogame]

2001  Soulkeeper

2001  The Source [also known as "The Secret Craft" in Great Britain]

2001  Space Banda

2001  Star Trek: Armada II [videogame]

2001  Star Trek: Away Team [videogame]

2001  Star Trek: Shattered Universe [videogame]

2001  Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron 2 [videogame]

2001  Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo [videogame]

2001  Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds [videogame]

2001  Star Wars : Obi-Wan [videogame]

2001  Star Wars: Star Fighter [videogame]

2001  Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing [videogame]

2001  Startopia [videogame]

2001  Stranded

2001  Strange Frequency [made for TV]

2001  Strange Invaders

2001  Sugar High Glitter City

2001  Sweet Sixteen

2001  Tara

2001  Teenage Caveman [made for TV]

2001  Thrasher

2001  The Tomorrow Man [also known as "Time Shifters"]

2001  Top 10 TV Sci-Fi [made for TV]

2001  Tremors 3: Back to Perfection [direct to video]

2001  Tryumf pana Kleska

2001  Urutoraman Kosumosu: First Contact 
     [also known as "Ultraman Cosmos: First Contact"]

2001  Vacaciones en la Tierra [direct to video]

2001  Vanilla Sky

2001  Virtual Girl 2: Virtual Vegas [direct to video]

2001  Virtualia Episode One: Cyber Sex [direct to video]

2001  Virus

2001  The Void [direct to video]

2001  Vortex

2001  Wave Twisters

2001  Wired 03:36

2001  The Woman Every Man Wants

2001  Zenon: The Zequel

2001  Zone of the Enders [Japanese videogame]

2001  {many more} {to be done}



2002 Films:


2002  Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
     directed by Peter Jackson [New Line Cinema]
     Winner, 2003 Hugo Award for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation 

2002  Minority Report
     voted #2 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation

2002  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
     voted #3 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation;
          Harry Potter -- Daniel Radcliffe;
          Herminione Granger -- Emma Watson;
          Ronald "Ron" Weasley -- Rupert Grint;
          Gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid -- Robbie Coltrane;
          Headmaster Albus Dumbledore -- xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
          Professor Severus Snape -- Alan Rickman;
          Professor Minerva McGonagall -- Maggie Smith;
          Caretaker Argus Filch -- David Bradley;
          Draco Malfoy -- Tom Felton;
          Uncle Vernon Dursley -- Richard Griffiths;
          
2002  Spider-Man
     voted #4 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation

2002  Spirited Away [animated]
     voted #5 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation

2002  Lilo and Stitch [animated]
     voted #6 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Star Trek Nemesis
     voted #7 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Signs
     voted #8 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
     voted #9 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Ice Age [animated]
     voted #10 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Metropolis [animated]
     voted #11 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Taken [miniseries]
     voted #12 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring extended version
     voted #13 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Solaris [remake]
     voted #14 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Men in Black II
     voted #15 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Treasure Planet [animated]
     voted #16 by number of nominations for 2003 Hugo Award 
     for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation
     (thus did not make final ballot)

2002  Shrek [animated]
     Finalist Nominee, 2002 Nebula Award for Best Script;
     Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, & Roger S. H. Schulman
     [DreamWorks] 

2002  Frailty, screenplay by Brant Hanley [Lion's Gate Films] 
     Winner, Bram Stoker Award for Screenplay, 
     from the 2003 Horror Writers Association

Other 2002 Films in Alphabetical Order:

2002  2009 Lost Memories
2009 Lost Memories (2002)
     Korean, with Korean/Japanese Language Track and Removable English 
     Subtitles, on Korean DVD (Region 3 NTSC, enterOne 2-disk set,
     16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen).
     Director: Lee Si-Myung;
     Starring: Jang Dong-Gun (star of blockbuster "Friend") as 
          Masayuki Sakamoto; 
               Toru Nakamura ("Gen-X Cops", "Tokyo Raiders") as Shojiro Saigo;
               Seo Jin-Ho as Hye;
     Additional Cast:
               Shin Gu; Ahn Kil-Sang; Cho Sang-Keun; Chun Ho-Jin;
     Genres: Sci-Fi/Alternate History/Action;
     Plot Summary:
          In 1909 the Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi was assassinated by 
     Korean Nationalist An Chung-Gun.  In the Alternate History of 
     "2009 Lost Memories", Ito was saved when An was stopped.  As a result, 
     the Korean Nationalist cause was never successful.  Japan won World 
     War II -- with the USA as an ally!  Korea has been totally ruled by 
     Japan for a century, and almost completely Japanized.  Korean people 
     and culture are relegated to scattered "Koreatown" ghettos.  But a 
     violent grassroots Korean movement called Hureisenjin  engages in 
     sporadic terrorism.
          The JBI (Japanese Bureau of Investigation) tries to crush 
     Hureisenjin.  JBI cops Masayuki Sakamoto and Shojiro Saigo try to 
     solve the terrorism-related theft of mysterious artefacts of Korean 
     culture.  Masayuki Sakamoto has a private agenda, because his father, 
     also a cop, was shot by his own group's officers while working for the 
     Hureisenjin.  Complicating his motives, Sakamoto is ethnically 
     Korean, but sees the underground nationlist group as essentially 
     criminal (as opposed to patriotic).  He is indifferent, idologically, 
     to Korean Nationalism.
          The plot thickens in a "Bladerunner" style, as Sakamoto dreams 
     about a quarter-moon necklace, which is somehow one of the 
     sought-after artefacts.  The artefacts are owned by a shadowy Inoue 
     Foundation, a rich, powerful, and ruthless corporate conglomerate.  
     When Sakamoto sniffs round the Inoue scene, he sets subplots in 
     motion, that (unknown to him) depend on the founder being the very man 
     who killed the assassin An Chung-Gun in 1909.
          Hureisenjin may hunger for revenge and justice more than 
     nationalism. There are interesting themes introduced, and science 
     fictional twists and turns.  But the spectacular fight and action 
     sequences get the upper hand over the promising philosophical matters,
     and three-quartewrs through the 2 hour film, it becomes evident where 
     the plot is going.  The film twists and counter-twists, as if Lee 
     Si-Myung can't decide whether to go for mainstream crowd-pleaser or 
     art-film sophistication.  In Philip K. Dick's Alternate History "The 
     Man in the High Castle", Japan and Germany have conqured the USA, but 
     we are not clear whether the Japanese are good or bad, and we have no 
     idea where the plot is heading.  Ironically, the American Philip K. Dick 
     used the Chinese "I-Ching" to make pseudo-random plot choices, while 
     the Korean Lee Si-Myung uses Hollywood happy ending protocol.  Still,
     this is an intense and very watchable film.

2002  28 Days Later

2002  A.E.R. Adult Entertainment Robots Volume 1 [direct to video]

2002  A.E.R. Adult Entertainment Robots Volume 2: The New Breed [direct to video]

2002  Adios querida luna

2002  The Adventures of Pluto Nash
     Starring Eddie Murphy

2002  Aedena  [France] [6-minute short]
     Writer/Director: Ben Elia

2002  Alien Love Triangle

2002  Alien Voices

2002  Aliens vs. Predator 2: Primal Hunt [videogame]

2002  Alive

2002  Antibody [direct to video]

2002  Armitage: Dual Matrix [direct to video]

2002  Attack of the B-Movie Monster [direct to video]

2002  Automata

2002  Avatar

2002  Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers [made for TV]

2002  Bare Wench Project 3: The Nymphs of Mystery Mountain [direct to video]

2002  Beccerra

2002  Bedlam

2002  Below

2002  Big, Bigger & Biggest
     Director: Dariusz Zawislak;
     Screenplay: Rebecca Smith

2002  Bikini Planet [direct to video]

2002  Broken Allegiance

2002  Callous Sentiment [13-minute short]
     Writer/Director: Vincent Grashaw;
     Brutal film reminds me of "Lord of the Flies" in an urban 
     environment, where boys in a deserted playground toryure, murder, and 
     suicide

2002  Candy Von Dewd and the Girls from Latexplotia

2002  Chasm

2002  Chik yeung tin sai

2002  Christmas Tauntauns [animation]
     winner, amateur Star Wars

2002  Chronotrip

2002  The Chubbchubbs!

2002  Chut!

2002  Clockstoppers
     Directed by Jonathan Frakes.
     Blatantly ripped off from "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything."
     But without the kinky sex of "The Fermata" (2005?), currently being
     scripted by Hugo Award-winning Best Novelist Neil Gaiman.
     Dim Leave-It-To-Beaver teenager Zak Gibbs has never had a tougher 
     puzzle than how to buy a car (think: "Dude, Where's My Car?").
     His inventor father left a weird wristwatch among his gadgets.
     When Zak puts it on, he soon discovers that it can stop the world 
     around him, freezing everyone and everything in place while he moves 
     through hypertime.  He and his purportedly clever girlfriend Francesca 
     waste this amazing opportunity with pathetic practical jokes.  Soon, 
     they are in over their heads, because they are not the only ones 
     maneuvering in hypertime.  Juvenile and disappointing.

2002  Command & Conquer: Renegade [videogame]

2002  Corner of the Eye

2002  The Crawling Brain [direct to video]

2002  Crimson Sea [Japan; videogame]

2002  Cultivision (Collapsing Stars) [made for TV]
     Director: Neill Calabro
     really a meta-film, so dense is it with filmic references and in-jokes

2002  Cybermutt [made for TV]

2002  Cypher [Japan]
     Director: Vincent Natali ("Cube");
     rather clever, character-driven corporate espionage thriller,
     with twist ending;
     95 Minutes;

2002  D.N.A.: Dark Native Apostle [videogame]

2002  D7Peacemaker: Stage 1 [direct to video]

2002  Dark Angel [videogame]

2002  Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline

2002  The Day the Dolls Struck Back [direct to video]

2002  De noche van a tu cuarto

2002  The Dead Zone [direct to video]
     Adapted from Stephen King adapted TV series

2002  Deadly Species [direct to video]

2002  Dealer's Day

2002  Deep Shock

2002  Defender [videogame]

2002  Dimensionless Woman [short]
     Director: Anita Salamone;
     Starring:
          Valerie -- Maeve McCaffery

2002  Discovering Dinotopia [made for TV]

2002  Dragonfly

2002  Dream Hackers

2002  Duke Nukem Advance [videogame]

2002  Duke Nukem Manhattan Project [videogame]

2002  The E. T. Reunion [direct to video]

2002  Earth and Beyond [videogame]

2002  Eight Legged Freaks

2002  Eireville

2002  Elysium [South Korea]
     85 Minutes
     Four knights battle "The Elysian" to save humanity's last defense, 
     "The Ark"

2002  An Enraged New World
     Director: Mike A. Martinez;
     Screenplay and Story: Wil H. Harris;
     Astronauts returning from Jupiter's moon Ganymede arrive at a planet 
     like, but not identical to, Earth

2002  Equilibrium

2002  The Erotic Time Machine [direct to video][comedy]
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     X-rated for woman-woman action, introducing Kelli Summers.
     The Time Travel frame-plot is just an excuse for Seduction Cinema
     anthologizing of scenes you don't want the under-aged, or Attorney 
     General Ashcroft, to watch.  Basically here to warn you not to be 
     fooled by the title into expecting a real plot.
     
2002  Essence of the Force [direct to video]

2002  Fairie
     Writer/Director: Willo Hausman
     75 Minutes

2002  Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions [documentary]

2002  Farvelose verden [also known as "Bleached World"] [Denmark]
     [10-minute short]
     Writer/Director: Rasmus Hoegdall Moelgaard;
     Dystopia where color is outlawed, and young man wants to give a blue 
     flower to his settheart

2002  Firestarter 2: Rekindled
     Sequel to adaptation of Stephen King novel

2002  Fish + Dog

2002  Frankenthumb

2002  Freedom Force [videogame]

2002  Getting Shirty

2002  Ghost Ship [Horror]

2002  Ghost Watcher

2002  Gojira tai Mekagojira [also known as "Godzilla verses Meka-Godzilla"]

2002  Gorilla Warfare: Battle of the Apes [direct to video]

2002  Grasp

2002  Groom Lake

2002  Hoshi no koe

2002  The Human Being

2002  Hypercube: Cube 2
     Fine sequel of outstanding film.

2002  Impostor

2002  Inseguito

2002  Interceptor Force 2

2002  It's a Haunted Happening! [direct to video]

2002  Itse valtiaat - Avaruumusikaali [made for TV]

2002  The Jedi Hunter

2002  Jet Li is "The One" [direct to video]

2002  Katedra

2002  The Key

2002  Killing Castro

2002  Know Your Foe [direct to video]

2002  Kowaremono

2002  La Puppe

2002  Lathe of Heaven [made for TV remake of superb made for TV film]
     Adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin novel

2002  Legends of Show Business

2002  Lilo & Stitch [animated]

2002  Lilo & Stitch [videogame]

2002  Little Girl With Blue Eyes

2002  The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

2002  Luminal

2002  Made Incorrect

2002  The Making of "Tron" [direct to video]

2002  Mark of the Astro-Zombies [direct to video]

2002  Max Hell Comes to Frogtown [direct to video]

2002  McAllister Affair: The Gathering [also known as "Just Another Mary!"]

2002  Mech Warrior 4: Mercenaries [videogame]

2002  Megalodon
     Shark from the Age of Dinoaurs.  "Jaws" meets "Jurassic Park"

2002  Men in Black II [see featured films at tope of 2002 Films page]

2002  Mercano, el marciano

2002  Meridian

2002  Meteroido fyusion [also known as Metroid 4"]

2002  Metroid Prime [videogame]

2002  Minority Report
 [see featured films at tope of 2002 Films page]

2002  Miu haan fook wood [also known as "Second Time Around"]

2002  Monkeys and Robots

2002  Mosquito Night

2002  Mutant Swinger from Mars [direct to video]

2002  Mutation 3: Century of the Dead [direct to video]

2002  New World

2002  No Law 4000 [Sweden]

2002  Odyssey 5 [Made for TV]

2002  Off

2002  On to Victory

2002  Palumu no ki [also known Tree of Palme]
     Good buzz at Berlin Film Festival

2002  The Petting Zoo

2002  Phoenix

2002  Picture Perfect

2002  Pink Five [direct to video]

2002  Planet of the Erotic Apes [direct to video]

2002  Play-Mate of the Apes [direct to video]

2002  Pluto's Plight [direct to video]

2002  Project V.I.P.E.R.

2002  Project Valkyrie

2002  Psyclops [direct to video]

2002  Pulse Pounders

2002  Python 2

2002  Raising Dead

2002  Raices de sangre

2002  Rear View Mirror

2002  Reign of Fire
     future: firebreathing dragons versus heroic idiots

2002  Repli-Kate

2002  Resident Evil
     adapted from computer game series

2002  Returner [Japan] [also known as "Ritaanaa"]

2002  Rewind

2002  Rick Baker: Alien Maker [direct to video]

2002  Riverworld [made for TV]
     adapted from Phillip Jose Farmer novels;
     one of the great concepts of modern science fiction:
     everybody who ever lived is resurrected by alines on the shores of a 
     million-mile river.  Changes from books are not dramtically necessary.

2002  Robotech: Battlecry [videogame]

2002  Rocketmen vs. Robots

2002  Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun [direct to video]

2002  Rollerball [remake]
     I liked the James Caan original better, but this does have its 
     moments...

2002  The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence [made for TV]
     If there'd been anything to this, you'd have heard.  Or is that what 
     THEY want you to think?

2002  S.E.T.I.
     The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

2002  S1m0ne
     Fall in love with a virtual girl?  This was done first, and better, by 
     the Cyberpunk master William Gibson in "Idoru"

2002  Saint Sinner [also known as "Clive Barker's Saint Sinner"] [made for TV]

2002  Salvation

2002  {at least 64 more, alphabetically} {to be done}

2002  Virtualia Episode Five: The Dark Side [Direct to video]
     Produced in Sweden.  English language.  X-rated?



2003 Films:


2003  28 Days Later

2003  2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey

2003  2046

2003  30:13

2003  Absolon

2003  Acne

2003  The Affidavit

2003  Ainoa

2003  Alien Agen

2003  Alien Dreamtime

2003  Alien Gods

2003  Animatrix: A Detective Story [short computer animation]

2003  The Animatrix: Beyond [short computer animation]

2003  Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris [short computer animation]

2003  The Animatrix: Kid's Story [short computer animation]

2003  The Animatrix: Matriculated [short computer animation]

2003  The Animatrix: The Second Renissance, Part I [short computer animation]

2003  The Animatrix: The Second Renissance, Part II [short computer animation]

2003  The Animatrix: World Record [short computer animation]

2003  Anubis: Zone of the Enders

2003  Aquanoids

2003  Arachnia

2003  Avatar

2003  Barbarellas

2003  Bad Police Movie Case #1: Galaxy of the Dinosaurs

2003  Brain Child [made for TV]

2003  The Brink [direct to Video]
 
2003  Bugs [made for TV]

2003  The Cancer

2003  The Children of Men

2003  Chimera [made for TV]

2003  Christmas on Mars

2003  Chrome

2003  Code 46

2003  The Core [though ALL the science is bogus]

2003  Curse of the Komodo

2003  D7Peacemaker: Nightfall

2003  Daemus Rising [direct to Video]

2003  Dark Walker [direct to Video]

2003  Deadly Stingers

2003  Deathlands [made for TV]

2003  Decoys

2003  Despiser [direct to Video]

2003  Die You Zombie Bastards!

2003  Dimension Alternativa

2003  Do or Die [made for TV]

2003  Doom III: The Legacy
     sequel to adaptation of computer game

2003  Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde [direct to Video]

2003  Dragon Fighter [direct to video]

2003  Dragon Storm [direct to Video]

2003  Dreamcatcher
     Director: Lawrence Kasdan;
     Adapted: from the novel by Stephen King;
     Screenplay: William Goldman & Lawrence Kasdan;
     Executive Producer: Bruce Berman;
     Starring: 
          Morgan Freeman as Col. Abraham Curtis;
          Damien Lewis as Prof. Gary "Jonesy" Jones;
          Thomas Jane as Dr. Henry Devlin;
          Jason Lee as Joe "Beaver" Clarendon;
          Timothy Olyphant as Pete Moore;
          Tom Sizemore as Capt. Owen Underhill;
          Andrew Robb as Young Duddits;
     Production Companies:
          Castle Rock Entertainment [USA];
          NPV Entertainment [USA];
          SSDD Films Inc. [Canada];
          Village Roadshow Prods. [Australia];
     Special Effects:
          Industrial Light & Magic;
          Steve Johnson's Edge FX;
     Length: 136 minutes (134 in USA);
     Rated: R;
     Genres: Alien/Telepathy/Horror/Sci-Fi/Military/Male-Bonding;
     Plot Summary: 
          The critics simply "did not get" this movie.  That's because few 
     of them read the thick novel of the same name by Stephen King.  It is 
     actually one of the best screen adaptations of King, and compresses 
     most of its subplots into a complicated and fast-paced thoughtful 
     action-adventure film, a rare combination indeed.  The critics also 
     couldn't tell if this was Horror or Sci-Fi.  It's neither.  It is true 
     Science Fiction.  The critics also condemned the film as derivative, 
     and a rehash of King's favorite themes. Actually, the film captures 
     King's unique spin on each otherwise familiar element.
          Four closely-bonded men, having a hard time with life, meet for 
     their annual drinking/hunting getaway in the remote Maine woods.
     At first, the foursome from fictional Derry, Maine, are threatened 
     only by a blizzard.  But things go unhinged when a disoriented 
     stranger staggers in.  The four already have mid-life crises to 
     contend with, and ready to talk them out at "Hole in the Wall."
     Comic/Sad Beav has problems with the opposite sex; Henry, a bookish 
     psychiatrist, is close to suicide.  Pete has slipped into beery 
     alcoholism.  Jonesy has weird premonitions, ever since a hallucination 
     almost caused him to die as a pedestrian hit by a car.  But the 
     stranger talks about lights in the sky, wild animals with odd red 
     patches migrate past the cabin, and the stranger has something bloody 
     moving around inside him, which kills him horribly.  What was it, and 
     how can they fight it?  And is the greater danger inside or outside?
          The story takes on paranormal tones as they recall the heroic 
     act that bound them together, in childhood.  They'd saved an apparent 
     idiot, Duddits, from being tortured by school football-team bullies.  
     But the idiot is something more unusual, and the four have even 
     stranger powers as a result.
          Soon we are plunged into a nightmare of interplanetary aliens 
     with either shape-shifting or telepathic powers, or both, and 
     something deadly that is either symbiote or not, and a fast-growing 
     red fungus.  And is the secret military hero leading forces against 
     the aliens a real hero, or a psychotic vigilante?  Nothing is quite 
     what it seems.  And the blizzard bears down on all.
          Who will prevail: the aliens, or the Colonel?  Will the Colonel 
     destroy the town to save it, kill innocent civilians, or even nuke 
     Maine?  And has an alien taken over one of the four friends' minds,
     or become lost in the man's mental warehouse?  And what about 
     spreading the alien invasion through the water supply?
          This is a tricky and exciting film.  My wife and I loved it.
     So did Stephen King, who often hates his screen adaptations.  The 
     critics miss the boat completely.  Recommended.

2003  Dreamweaver

2003  Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones [animation; direct to video]

2003  Duke Nukem Forever [videogame]

2003  Enter the Matrix [videogame]

2003  Exhumed [direct to video]

2003  Exit

2003  Fifth City

2003  First Watch

2003  Firstborn

2003  Freelancer [videogame]

2003  Frog-g-g!

2003  Gamma Project

2003  Gojira tai Mosura tai Mekagojira: Tokyo S.O.S.
     also known as Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

2003  Good Boy!

2003  Gothika (opens 21 Nov 2003)
     Producers: Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis;
     Studio: Dark Castle ["Ghost Ship", "House on Haunted Hill"];
     Director: Mathieu Kassovitz [France];
     Starring:
          Halle Berry as criminal psychologist;
          Penelope Cruz as mental patient Chloe;
          Robert Downey, Jr.

2003  The Great War of Magellan

2003  Los Guerreros del Apocalipsis

2003  Half-Life 2 [videogame]

2003  Halo 2 [videogame]

2003  Hamlet_X

2003  High Ground [direct to video]

2003  Hulk
     Adapted from Marvel Comics series

2003  The I Inside

2003  I Was an Atomic Mutant [videogame]

2003  If

2003  Inbred Redneck Alien Abduction [videogame]

2003  It's About Love

2003  Jigereul jikyeora! [also known as "Save the Planet!"]

2003  Julie and Jack

2003  Kohtalon Kirja [also known as "The Booke of Fate"]

2003  Koi... Mil Gaya

2003  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
     Adapted from Graphic Novel

2003  Leeches!

2003  Lost in Space: The Journey Home [made for TV]

2003  The Low Budget Time Machine
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2003  Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter

2003  Makai Tensho

2003  Man with the Screaming Brain [made for TV]

2003  Man-Thing

2003  The Matrix: Reloaded

2003  Matrix Revolutions: The IMAX Experience

2003  May Day [direct to video]

2003  Messengers

2003  Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

2003  Midnight Sun

2003  Mimic: Sentinel
     also known as "Mimic 3"

2003  Mindgame

2003  My Life with Count Dracula

2003  Mas de mil cameras velan por tu suguridad
     [also known as "More than a Thousand cameras are Working for Your Safety"]

2003  The Name

2003  Natural City

2003  Natural Selection

2003  Noctivagant

2003  Numb

2003  P.I.: Post Impact

2003  Painkillers

2003  Parasite

2003  Patalghar

2003  Paycheck

2003  Perfect Dark Zero [videogame]

2003  Phoenix Point

2003  Pinocchio

2003  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2003  Radium [videogame]

2003  Rats [also known as "Killer Rats"]

2003  Ruampatrouille Orion -- Rucksturz ins Kino

2003  Real Buddy

2003  Red Dwarf: The Movie
     Adapted from the British TV series

2003  The Return of the King (also known as Lord of the Rings III)
     opens 17 Dec 2003
     Director: Peter Jackson
     [New Line Cinema]
     Viewers will be surprised to find Sauruman (played by Christopher Lee)
          missing in the film (but appearing in the DVD)

2003  Ripper II [direct to video]

2003  Rollie Pollie Ollie: The Baby Bot Chase

2003  Ronzio delle mosche II

2003  Rottweiler

2003  Run Leia Run [parody]

2003  Scary Movie III [Horror/Comedy]
     This broke records for biggest October box office and biggest Miramax 
     opening. It parodoes "The Ring", "Signs", and "Matrix."
     Director: David Zucker [of "Airplane" films and "Naked Gun" films; 
          who will take over the franchise from the Wayans brothers];

2003  Se dagens lys [made for TV]

2003  Secret War [direct to video]

2003  Sex, Lies & Superheroes

2003  Silent But Deadly 2

2003  Silent Warnings [videogame]

2003  Snakehead Terror

2003  The Snell Show

2003  Den Sorte celle

2003  Space Psychos 4

2003  Space Specks

2003  Space Wolf [direct to video]

2003  Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

2003  Star Trek: Elite Force II [videogame]

2003  Star Trek: The Experience -- Borg Invasion 4D

2003  Star Wars: Jedi Knight -- Jedi Academy [videogame]

2003  Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic [videogame]

2003  StarCraft: Ghost
     Adapted from computer game

2003  Strange Attractor

2003  Subterano

2003  Sumuru [also known as "Sax Rohmer's Sumaru"] [South Africa]

2003  Terminator III: Rise of the Machines
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2003  Terra

2003  This Corrosion

2003  Those Who Walk In Darkness [direct to video]

2003  Threshold [made for TV]

2003  Time Enough At Last

2003  Timeline [opens 26 Nov 2003]
     Adapted from Michael Crichton novel
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     Director: Richard Donner;
     Adapted: from the novel by Michael Crichton;
     Screenplay: Frank A. Cappello;
     Starring:
          Paul Walker as Chris Hughes;
               [Paul Walker also helped choreograph some fight scenes]
          Gerard Butler as Andre Marek;
          Frances O'Connor as Kate Erickson;
          Ethan Embry as David Stern;
          Billy Connoly as Professor Edward Johnson;
          David Thewlis as Robert Doniger;
          Michael Sheen as Lord Oliver, a knight
     Plot Summary:
          Chris, Andre, Kate, and David are four college students of 
     brilliant but eccentric Professor Edward Johnson. Working at an 
     archaeological site in France, the Professor becomes missing.  
     The four students are brought quickly to the US by a mysterious 
     corporation, ITC.
          Insomniac ITC President Robert Doniger tells them about the Time 
     Machine he's developed. He sends them back to rescue their professor 
     from medieval France, or maybe an Alternate History timeline.
          Chris, Andre, and Kate go back in Time, while David stays in the 
     present to deduce ITC's real motive.
          I didn't find the medieval stuff or the high-tech stuff credible.
     Where is the Michael Crichton of "Andromeda Strain"?  Trapped in the 
     wealth and power of "Jurassic Park" and "ER."
          The film deviates from the book, anyway. These are some of the 
     changes that Director Richard Donner made:
     * Chris is (in the film only) the son of Professor Edward Johnson
     * Andre Marek is (in the film only) unfamiliar with medieval weapons
     * Andre Marek is (in the film only) surprised that things are not as 
          he knew them to be in that historical era
     * The Middle Ages have (in the film only) no medieval languages

2003  Torus [direct to video]

2003  The Trap

2003  Tremors 4

2003  Tron 2.0 [videogame]

2003  Typhoon

2003  UFOs: Put to the Test [made for TV]

2003  The Ugly One

2003  Undead

2003  The Uninvited

2003  The Visual Effects of X-Men [direct to video]

2003  Webs [made for TV]

2003  The Wicksboro Incident [direct to video]

2003  The Winter People

2003  Wonderful Days

2003  World Future Inc.

2003  The X-Files: Resist or Serve [videogame]

2003  X-Men production Scrapbook [direct to video]

2003:  X2 [also known as "X-Men 2"; also known as "X-Men United"; 



2004 Films:


2004  @lien [Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi]
     Director: Gregg Hale;
     Screenplay: Rachel Davis, Gregg Hale;
     Starring: 
          Henry Tidwell -- Brandon Bales;
          Hannah Everland -- Suli Holum;
          Real Estate Agent -- Mary Kraft;
          Fireworks Cashier -- Steve Warren;  

2004  10 Again [British; 10-minute short]
     Director: Simon Ellis

2004  Alien Vs. Predator [Aug 2004]
     Adapted from Comics series;
     20th Century Fox;
     Director: Paul Anderson;
     Screenplay: Paul Anderson and Shane Salerno;
     Locations: Prague;
     Starring: 
          Sanaa Latham as Lex Kline;
          Raoul Bova;
          Lance Henriksen as Weyland [in "Alien", Lance Henriksen
               played the android Bishop; now he plays the billionaire 
               Weyland who created Bishop, and whose conglomerate
               Weyland-Yutani Corporation caused much of the trouble)
     Plot: scientists discover prehistoric pyramid in Antarctica,
          and two previously unknown alien species; world gets caught in 
          war between those aliens;

2004  Anacondas
     Director: Dwight H. Little;
     Screenplay: John Claflin, Michael Miner, others;
     Plot: Set in Borneo, big snakes ruin search for life-extension
          flower "the Black Orchid."

2004  Babylon Babies [Sci-Fi / Action]
     Executive Producer: Marc Olla;
     Director: Matthieu Kassovitz;
     Screenplay: Eric Besnard, Maurice G. Dantec, Matthieu Kassovitz;

2004  Birth [Drama / Mystery / Fantasy elements]
     Director: Jonathan Glazer;
     Screenplay: Milo Addica, John-Claude Carriere, others;
     Starring: Nicole Kidman;
     Plot: 
          Nicole Kidman suspects 10-year-old reincarnates her dead husband;

2004  Blast

2004  Blind Horizon [Thriller]
     Director: Michael Haussman;
     Screenplay: F. Paul Benz, Steve Tomlin;
     Starring: 
          Frank -- Val Kilmer;
          Chloe -- Neve Campbell;
          Sheriff Kolb -- Sam Shepard;
     Plot: Frank 's had amnesia since shot in New Mexico;
         this may relate to an attempt to assassinate the President;

2004  Bogeyman

2004  The Butterfly Effect [Time Travel];
     113 minutes;
     Plot: boy travels back in time to be in his childhood body, hoping to 
          overcome trauma, but everything he does makes things different in 
          unexpected ways;
     Production Company: Blackout Entertainment;
     Distributors: CDI [Italy], Icon Films Distribution [UK],
          Kathy Morgan International, New Line Cinema [USA],
          New Line Home Video [USA]
     Executiver Producers: Jason Goldberg, Ashton Kutcher, William Shively;
     Producers: Chris Bender, A.J. Dix, Anthony Rhulen, Lisa Richardson,  J.C. Spink;
     Co-Producer: David Krintzman;
     Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber;
     Screenplay: J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress, others;
     Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti;
     Film Editor: Peter Amundson;
     Special Effects: Schminken Studios, Inc. [USA], Toybox [Canada];
     Starring: 
          Evan Treborn -- Ashton Kutcher;
          Kayleigh Miller -- Amy Smart;
          George Miller -- Eric Stoltz;
          Tommy Miller -- William Lee Scott;

2004  The Chronicles of Riddick [Sci-Fi Action/Thriller]
     Plot: 500 years from now, a 10th crusade is in progress,
          involving aliens.
     Director: David Twohy;
     Screenplay: David Twohy;
     Starring: 
          Richard B. Riddick -- Vin Diesel;
          Aeron (Elemental) -- Judi Dench
          Lord Marshall -- Colm Feore;

2004  Constantine
     Adapted from the DC-Vertigo comic "Hellblazer",
          specifically the 1994 graphic novel in the series known as 
          "Dangerous Habits" written by Garth Ennis;
     Plot: John Constantine is a supernatural director who has returned 
          from hell, faced with dying from lung cancer;
     Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner ["Timeline" 2003];
     Director: Francis Lawrence;
     Screenplay: Steve Bissette (co-creator), Mark Bomback, others;
     Starring: 
          John Constantine -- Keanu Reeves;
          Angela Dodson -- Rachel Weisz;
          Pap Midnite -- Djimon Hounsou;
     Locations: Downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach

2004  The Crow: Wicked Prayer [sequel]
     Plot: Luc Crash seeks to be an eternal demon, starting as a gang 
          leader who has Jimmy Cuervo and his lady-love murdered;
     Director: Lance Mungia;
     Screenplay: Jeff Most, lance Mungia, others;
     Starring: 
          Jimmy Cuervo -- Edward Furlong;
          Luc Crash/Death -- David Boreanz;
          Tara Reid -- Lola Byrne;
          El Nino -- Dennis Hopper;

2004  Cube Zero [Canada] [3rd in series]
     Director: Ernie Barbarash;
     Screenplay: Ernie Barbarash;
     Starring: 
          Dodd -- David Huband;

2004  Cursed [Horror / Thriller]
     Plot: werewolves of Los Angeles;
     Director: Wes Craven;
     Screenplay: Kevin Williamson;
     Starring: {to be done}

2004  Dark Queen
     Taglines: "not all monsters are ugly"; "her reign of terror begins!"
     Director: Ken LaVan;
     Screenplay: Lou Aguilar;
     Starring: 
          Helen/Cassandra -- Tian Kitchen;
          Gary -- Sean Klitzner;
          Horn -- Michael Marks;

2004  The Day After Tomorrow
     Plot: the new Ice Age gripa New York, but global warming is about to 
          upset everything...
     Director: Roland Emmerich;
     Sdapted: from the book by Art Bell;
     Screenplay: Roland Emmerich, others;
     Starring: 
          Professor Jack Hall -- Dennis Quaid;
          Sam Hall -- Jake Gyllenhall;
          Laura -- Emily Rossum
          Lucy -- Sela Ward

2004  Deathlok
     Plot: Man is (unknown to himself) being experimentally turned into a 
          Cyborg, one organ or limb at a time...
     Director: Lee Tamahori;
     Screenplay: Raven Metzner, Stu Zicherman;

2004  Delgo [Animation/Fantasy/Adventure/Romance]
     Director: Marc F. Adler, Jason Maurer;
     Story: Marc F. Adler, Scott Biear;
     Screenplay: 
     Starring (voices):
          Sedessa -- Anne Bancroft;
          Bogardus -- Val Kilmer;
          Princess Kyla -- Jennifer Love Hewitt;
          Filo -- Chris Kattan;
          Zahn -- Lou Gossett, Jr.;
          Spig -- Eric Idle;
          Kurrin -- Kelly Ripa;
          Elder marley -- Michael Clark Duncan;
          Raius -- Malcolm McDowell;

2004  Deus Ex [Action-Adventure / Sci-Fi / Mystery]
     Plot: 2052 has killer disease, global economic failure, rampant 
          terrorism...
     Director: 
     Screenplay: Greg Pruss;
     Starring: 

2004  Don't Be Afraid of the Dark [remake of 1973 TV?]

2004  Dracula 3000 [Germany / South Africa]
     Plot: Count Dracula creeps out the spaceship crew...
     Director: Darrel James Roodt;
     Screenplay: Darrel Roodt;
     Starring: 
          Coolio;
          Erika Eleniak;
          Alexandra Kamp-Groenvald;
          Professor -- Grant Swanby;
          Caspar Von Dien;

2004  Dragon Ball Z
     Adapted from the Anime series

2004  Dragon's Lair
     Adapted from 1983 videogame and its sequels;

2004  Earwigs [made for TV]

2004  Ella Enchanted [April 2004] [Comedy / Fantasy / Romance]
     Miramax's Fantasy about medieval girl fighting an Obedience Curse;
     Adapted: from the novel by Gail Carson Levine;
     Director: Tommy O'Haver;
     Screenplay: Laurie Craig;
     Starring: 
          Ella -- Anne Hathaway;
          Prince Charmont -- Hugh Dancy;
          Prince Gregent Efgar -- Cary Elwes;
          Mandy -- Minnie Driver;
          Fairy Lucinda -- Vivica A. Fox;
          Dame Olga -- Joanna Lumley;
     
2004  Evangelion [anime]

2004  The Extractors
     Director: 
     Screenplay: James DeMonaco, Kevin Fox;
     Starring: 
          Ice Cube;

2004  Fantastic Four 
     Adapted from Marvel Comics series;
     Plot: bunch of astronauts exposed to radiation get super powers,
          battle their antagonist Doctor Victor Von Doom;
     Story: Michael France;
     Screenplay: Mark Frost;

2004  The Final Cut [remake of 1995 film?]

2004  Frankenstein [made for TV]
     Director: Kevin Connor;
     Screenplay:
     Starring: 
         The Creature -- Luke Goss;
         Victor Frankenstein -- Alex Newman;
         Elizabeth -- Nicole Lewis;
         Caroline Frankenstein -- Julie Delpy;
         Captain Walton -- Donald Sutherland;
         Professor Waldman -- William Hurt;

2004  From Other Worlds [Comedy / Sci-Fi]
     Director: Barry Strugatz;
     Screenplay: Barry Strugatz;
     Starring: 
          Joanne Schwartzbaum --  Cara Buono;
          Abraham -- Isaach De Bankole;
          Brian Scwartzbaum -- David lansbury;
          Baker -- Robert Downey, Sr.;

2004  Galactic Raiders
     Plot: earthlings kidnapped to other planet, where may be found the 
          crystal that many seek, blah blah...
     Director: Larry Arpin;
     Screenplay: Larry Arpin;
     Starring: 

2004  George and the Dragon
     The First Crusade, an Historical Fantasy [Action / Romance / Comedy]
     Writer/Director: Tom Reeve;
     Screenplay: Tom Reeve, Michael Burks;
     Starring: 
          George -- James Purefoy;
          Princess Lunna -- Piper Perabo;
          Garth -- Patrick Swayze;

2004  The Ghastly Love of Johnny X [Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery]
     [black & white]
     Director: Paul Bunnell;
     Screenplay: Paul Bunnell, Steve Bingen;
     Starring: 
          Chip -- Les Willaims;

2004  Gingerbreed [Comedy / Sci-Fi]
     Plot: Retro scfi-fi set on Mars colony as we might have imagined it in 
          1980.  In the middle of the Cold War, US and USSR must combine 
          forces to fight martian gingerbread men...  I'm not making this up ...
     Director: Jonathan Dorfman, Szymon Weglasrski;
     Screenplay: Jonathan Dorfman, Szymon Weglarski;
     Starring: 

2004  Guardian of the Realm
     Director: Ted Smith;
     Screenplay:
     Starring: 
          Josh Griffin -- Glen Levy;
          Alex Marlowe -- Tanya Dempsey;
          Nikki -- Lana Pirian;

2004  Halloween 9 [31 Oct 2004 release]

2004  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [12 June 2004 release]
     Adapted: from the novel by J. K. Rowling;
     Taglines: "Something wicked this way comes...";
          "Have you seen this wizard?"
     Screenplay: Steven Kloves [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)]
     Director: Alfonso Cuaron;
     Plot: Feared prisoner escapes from the Prison of Azkaban,
          where evil wizards are incarcerated, and Harry Potter
          fears for his life... but the escapee has an unexpected 
          connection to the boy...
     Starring:
          Harry Potter -- Daniel Radcliffe;
          Herminione Granger -- Emma Watson;
          Ronald "Ron" Weasley -- Rupert Grint;
          Gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid -- Robbie Coltrane;
          Sirius Black -- Gary Oldman;
          Headmaster Albus Dumbledore -- Michael Gambon;
          Professor Severus Snape -- Alan Rickman;
          Deputy Headmistress/Professor Minerva McGonagall -- Maggie Smith;
          Professor Remus Lupin -- David Thewliss;
          Caretaker Argus Filch -- David Bradley;
          Madam Rosmerta -- Julie Christie;
          Draco Malfoy -- Tom Felton;
          Uncle Vernon Dursley -- Richard Griffiths;
          many more {to be done}
          
2004  Hellboy 
     Adapted from Comics series [written by Mike Mignola]
     Plot: Nazi's summon an infant demon, whom they raise, but who becomes 
          a battler against dark forces;
     Director: Guillermo del Toro
     Screenplay: Mike Mignolia, Guellermo del Toro;
     Starring:
          Hellboy -- Ron Perlman
          Abe Sapien -- Doug Jones
          Liz Sherman -- Selma Blair
          Professor Bruttenholm -- John Hurt
          John Myers -- Rupert Evans
     
2004  Hero
     an Historical Fantasy, about the First Emperor of China

2004  Los Hijos del Topo

2004  A Home at the End of the World
     Adapted: from t