2000X
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Genre | science fiction |
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Country | USA |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | NPR |
Air dates | 4 April 2000 to 9 May 2000 |
No. of episodes | 11 |
2000X is a dramatic anthology series released by National Public Radio and produced by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. There were 49 plays of various lengths in 26 one-hour programs broadcast weekly and later released on the Internet. Plays were adaptations of futuristic stories, novels and plays by noted authors. Producer/director Yuri Rasovsky and host/consultant Harlan Ellison won the 2001 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for their work on this program.
Plays in the series
Title | Air Date (yyyy mm dd) | Author (adapted by) |
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By His Bootstraps | 2000 04 04 | Robert A. Heinlein |
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow | 2000 04 11 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Collector's Fever | 2000 04 18 | Roger Zelazny |
Knock | 2000 04 18 | Fredric Brown |
Even the Queen | 2000 04 18 | Connie Willis |
The Mission of the Vega | 2000 04 25 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2000 05 03 | William F. Nolan |
The Machine Stops | 2000 05 03 | E. M. Forster |
Revival Meeting | 2000 05 09 | ? |
Dear Pen Pal | 2000 05 09 | A. E. van Vogt |
A Learned Fable | 2000 05 09 | Mark Twain |
- Bradbury, Ray. "Pillar of Fire"
- Brown, Fredric. "Blood"
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Moon Maid
- Butler, Octavia E. "Bloodchild"
- Capek, Karel. R.U.R.
- Dowling, Terry. "The Only Bird in Her Name"
- Dryden, John. All for Love
- Hubbard, L. Ron. "Ole Doc Methuselah"
- Kersh, Gerald. "A Little Bank Deposit"
- Kipling, Rudyard. "As Easy as ABC"
- Kornbluth, C. M. "The Marching Morons"
- Leinster, Murray. "The Mad Planet"
- Lister, T. H. "A Dialogue for the Year 2130"
- London, Jack. "A Curious Fragment"
- Moore, C. L. "Shambleau"
- Nolan, William F. "And Miles to Go Before I Sleep"
- Rasovsky, Yuri. It Came from Outer Pinsk
- ——. Millennium Bug
- ——. Millennium Bug II
- ——. Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase in the New Century
- Robinson, Frank M. "The Hunting Season"
- Sheckley, Robert. "The Watchbird"
- Shaw, George Bernard. "The Thing Happens" from Back to Methuselah
- Silverberg, Robert. "A Sleep and a Forgetting"
- Slesar, Henry. "Merchant"
- Sturgeon, Theodore. "Hurricane Trio"
- Vonnegut, Kurt. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
- Wells, H. G. "A Dream of Armageddon"
- Young, Wayland. "The Choice"
External links
- 2000X site
- 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia - Amazon.com
- OTR Plot Spot: 2000 X - plot summaries and reviews.
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