Millennium (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: John Varley
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—time travel
- Time of Work: The twentieth and ninety-ninth centuries
- Setting: Various cities in the United States and the last city
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Future, God, Time travel, Kidnapping, Airplanes or jets
- Locales: United States
The Plot
Millennium is written in the first person, alternating between the viewpoints of Louise Baltimore, of the ninety-ninth century, and Bill Smith, of the twentieth. The human race in the ninety-ninth century is dying out, crippled by genetic diseases and a poisoned environment. Baltimore is part of a group that kidnaps people from times past who were about to die in such a way that their bodies would either not be found or be difficult to identify. They plan to use healthy humans from past centuries to found a new human race on another planet. Most of the people...
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