2021

'2021' ('MMXXI') will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Predicted events

Anniversaries

2021 in fiction

Computer and video games

Film

Literature

Television

Predicted events

★ NASA plans to colonize the moon with scientists by 2021 for more Mars research.

★ Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year-cicadas, will emerge.

★ CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.

Anniversaries

★ March 25 — bicentennial of Greece

★ July 28 — bicentennial of Peru

★ September 11 — 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

2021 in fiction

Computer and video games

★ ''Shadowrun'': On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.

Film

★ ''Click'' (2006): Michael Newman's father dies.

★ Set in 2021: ''Moon Zero Two'' (1969)

★ Set in 2021: ''Johnny Mnemonic'' (1995)

Literature

★ ''Weapons of Choice'' by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2 1942.

★ Set in 2021:

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★ ''The Children of Men'' by P.D. James (1992)

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★ ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1999) (1968)

Television

★ Set in 2021: ''Sealab 2021'' (2000–2005)