In 2000, the British publisher Gollancz Science Fiction issued a two-volume, complete edition of Howard's Conan stories as part of its Fantasy Masterworks imprint, which including several stories that had never seen print in their original form.

* Zork Classics: Interactive Fiction ( 2000 )

* The Blind Assassin ( 2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.

In 2000, the novella was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Long Form.

He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), The Fifth Element ( 1997 ), Armageddon ( 1998 ), The Sixth Sense ( 1999 ), Unbreakable ( 2000 ), Sin City ( 2005 ), Over the Hedge ( 2006 ) and Red ( 2010 ).

Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies ( 1999 ), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake ( 2003 ), was adapted into the popular film of the same name.

" Interpreter of Maladies sold 600, 000 copies and received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( only the seventh time a story collection had won the award ).

* 2000 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut " Interpreter of Maladies "

Their second album, the science fiction-themed Vapor Transmission, was released in 2000, with " Fiction ( Dreams in Digital )" and " Opticon " as

" Studies in American Fiction 28. 2 ( 2000 ): 151-78.

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

* Barbara Arnett Melchiori, Grant Allen: The Downward Path which Leads to Fiction ( Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000 ), ISBN 88-8319-526-4

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was nominated at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for a Saturn Award, from 1997 to 2000, in the field of Best Genre Cable or Syndicated Series.

Winner of the 2000 annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

* Eurorock Sonic Seducer Festival 2000 – ( 2xCD ) 2000, Disc 31, Track # 13 " Fiction Friction ( US-Only Track )" – Oblivion

It was also nominated for Governor General's Award in 2000, Orange Prize for Fiction, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2002.

* Jacques Derrida, Demeure: Fiction and Testimony ( Stanford, 2000 )

From 2000 – 2005, it published original science fiction short stories in a section called " Sci Fiction ", edited by Ellen Datlow, who won a 2005 Hugo Award for her work there.

*" Unthinkable " ( 2000 ) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact June 2000 ( ed.

*" Mask of Terminus " ( 2000 ) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact October 2000 ( ed.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

" Postmodern Science Fiction and Cyberpunk ", retrieved 2006-07-19.

* Richard K. Morgan: The New King of Cyberpunk Fiction ( Interview by Jewels of JIVE Magazine )

*" Literary MTV ," in Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction, ed.

*" The Frankenstein Barrier ," in Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative, ed.

* Razor girls: Genre and Gender in Cyberpunk Fiction

* 1994-Larry McCaffery and Takayuki Tatsumi, " Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop "

Gunman Chronicles, taking place at an unknown time in the distant future, contains many themes, most notably the design focuses on Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Futuristic and Western.

Feature-length documentaries about fandom ( some more respectful of the subjects than others ) include Trekkies, Ringers: Lord of the Fans, Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation, and Done the Impossible.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

" Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russ's Recent Work in Light of Her Early Short Fiction " in Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism.

The term appears to have been coined by John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, in the February 1941 issue of that magazine, in reference to Robert A. Heinlein's Future History.

" Imagining the Future: Predictive Fiction in the Nineteenth Century ".

The Associates toured as support band for The Cure and The Passions on the Future Pastimes Tour of England between November and December — all three bands were on the Fiction Records roster — with the new Cure line-up already performing a number of new songs for the projected second album.

Part of his Future History series, it originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction ( March 1941 ), and was collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow ).

One of his Future History stories, it was first published in Astounding Science Fiction ( July 1941 as by Anson MacDonald ) and collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow ).

* Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future ( 1953, second edition 1979, with John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Fletcher Pratt, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard )

Bana earned an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for " Cinescape Genre Face of the Future " for the film.

Works deriving themes and elements from Future Shock include the science fiction novels The Forever War ( 1974 ) by Joe Haldeman, The Shockwave Rider ( 1975 ) by John Brunner, the RPG Transhuman Space ( 2002 ) by Steve Jackson Games, and the indie RPG Shock: Social Science Fiction ( 2006 ) by designer Joshua A. C. Newman.

The term Future History was coined by John W. Campbell, Jr. in the February 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

His dissertation, " The Appearance of Science Fiction as a Genre of Artistic Prose " (" Nastanak naučne fantastike kao žanra umetničke proze "), appeared in his Contemporaries of the Future anthology, along with several of the stories discussed.

* The 1973 anthology Future City included " The World as Will and Wallpaper " by R. A. Lafferty, which was reprinted by Terry Carr in The Best Science Fiction of the Year # 3 ( 1974 ), " The Undercity " by Dean Koontz, which has been re-anthologized twice ( in 1977 by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction, and in 1997 by Ric Alexander in Cyber-Killers ), and " Getting Across " by Robert Silverberg which has also been re-anthologized twice ( in 1986 by Greenberg et al.

* Future Kin: Eight Science Fiction Stories ( 1974 )

* June Deery ( 2000 ) " The Biopolitics of Cyberspace: Piercy Hacks Gibson " pp. 87 – 108 IN: Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism.

* Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories on the Politics of the Future

* Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future, ed.

* No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed.