MILLENNIUM (NOVEL)

'''Millennium''' is a 1983 science fiction novel by John Varley. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1984.

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Plot introduction

Movie adaptation

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Plot introduction

''Millennium'' features a civilization from a far-future Earth using time travel to rescue passengers from airplanes destined to crash. The Earth is heavily polluted in the far future, and humanity's gene pool irreparably damaged; the doomed passengers were being rescued to serve as colonists who would rebuild civilization on a fresh planet once enough had been collected.
The time travellers can only take people destined to die in various disasters--notably including airplane crashes--because otherwise they would be changing the past, which could produce a catastrophic breakdown of the fabric of time. Therefore, they sneak into the scenes of imminent disasters, remove the living but soon-to-die victims, and replace them with convincing corpses they have manufactured in the future.
The novel deals with several of the raids, their inevitable discovery in the present day, and the fallout that results from changes to the present day reverberating into the future.

Movie adaptation

The novel and the 1989 movie ''Millennium'' were based on Varley's short story "Air Raid", which was published in 1977.

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