2000X

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Genre science fiction Language(s) English No. of episodes 11		Country USA Home station NPR
Air dates 4 April 2000 (2000-04-04) to 9 May 2000 (2000-05-09)

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

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"

References

2000X Wikipedia

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