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I've spent several weekends working on a presentation of twentieth-century science fiction set in the year 2021, and here is the fruit of my labours, a 21-minute video.
We start with Hankโs Back, a 1991 episode of the series Super Force.
Then a lost BBC TV drama from 1955, called The Voices: the world government sits in London in the year 2021 and is disrupted by aliens.
Superman's grandson is active in 2021, though so is plague.
Keanu Reeves starred as Johnny Mnemonic, a 1995 film set in 2021.
In the 1991 game D/Generation, you play a courier trying to deliver a package to a lab in Singapore in 2021.
The manga AI Revolution is a simple tale of a human girl and a robot boy in 2021.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is also set in 2021 (at least later editions - it was originally 1992).
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The Twilight Zone entered the year 2021 in the 1963 episode, On Thursday We Leave for Home.
So did The Outer Limits in 1964, though I think history has not been kind to the special effects.
But Moon Zero Two, a Hammer film from 1969, is very different - starring James Olsen, catherine Schell, Adrienne Corri and Warren Mitchell. Here's a lunar takeoff. (But see also the opening titles in my video - too long for here.)
There is an urban legend that Mad Max was set in 2021. It's not true, but I can give you The Sisterhood, a 1988 film in which a group of psychically gifted women warriors holds their own against the men of the post-apocalyptic Philippines.
There's also a rather dull video game called Scorcher.
Another Japanese manga, Oz, tells the story of another human girl and robot boy, on a quest for the citadel.
PD James' The Children of Men is set in 2021, 25 years after human reproduction has mysteriously ceased. Or has it?
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Finally in George Zebrowski's Macro Life, the entire planet Earth simply disintegrates in the year 2021, leaving the remnants of humanity to flee on an adapted asteroid.
Whatever else happens next year, I think it won't be as bad as that.
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Whatever else happens next year, I think it won't be as bad as that.
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And just to re-up my video again, which has more film clips, more sarcasm and an extract from an interview with PD James.
