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March 2025 2000X 2000xbig.png 200px Logo Science fiction USA English NPR yes 2000 4 2 yes 2000 9 26 26 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 Harlan Ellison won the 2001 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for their work on this program. Ellison acted as host and consultant, and co-adapted his short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman". Plays in the series Program number Title Air date Author 1a"Merchant"2000 04 02rHenry Slesar 1b"By His Bootstraps"2000 04 02Robert A. Heinlein 2"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow"2000 04 09Ursula K. Le Guin 3a"Collector's Fever"2000 04 16Roger Zelazny 3b"Knock"2000 04 16Fredric Brown 3c"Even the Queen"2000 04 16Connie Willis 4"The Mission of the Vega"2000 04 23Friedrich Dürrenmatt 5a"And Miles to Go Before I Sleep"2000 04 30William F. Nolan 5b"The Machine Stops"2000 04 30E. M. Forster 6a"Revival Meeting"2000 05 07Dannie Plachta 6b"Dear Pen Pal"2000 05 07A. E. van Vogt 6c"A Learned Fable"2000 05 07Mark Twain 07a"Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase in the New Century"2000 05 16Yuri Rasovsky 7b"Pillar of Fire"2000 05 16Ray Bradbury 8"R.U.R."2000 05 21Karel Čapek 9a"Sentience Today"2000 05 28Gort Klatu 9b"A Sleep and a Forgetting"2000 05 28Robert Silverberg 10a"The Survey"2000 06 04Yuri Rasovsky 10b"A Dream of Armageddon"2000 06 04H. G. Wells 11a"Watchbird"2000 06 13Robert Sheckley 11b"A Curious Fragment"2000 06 13Jack London 12"As Easy as ABC"2000 06 18Rudyard Kipling 13"Hunting Season"2000 06 27Frank M. Robinson 14a"Millennium Bug"2000 07 02Yuri Rasovsky (as Ytzhak Berle) 14b"In a Thousand Years"2000 07 02Hans Christian Andersen 14c"In the Year 2889"2000 07 02Jules Verne 14d"Millennium Bug II"2000 07 02Yuri Rasovsky (as Ytzhak Berle) 15"The Thing Happens"2000 07 09George Bernard Shaw 16a"It Came from Outer Pinsk"2000 07 16Yuri Rasovsky 16b"The Proud Robot"2000 07 16Henry Kuttner (as Lewis Padgett) 17a"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"2000 07 23Harlan Ellison 17b"By the Waters of Babylon"2000 07 23Stephen Vincent Benét 18"All for Love"2000 07 30John Dryden 19a"The Only Bird in Her Name"2000 08 07Terry Dowling 19b"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"2000 08 07Kurt Vonnegut 20"The Marching Morons"2000 08 14C. M. Kornbluth 21a"Bloodchild"2000 08 22Octavia Butler 21b"Shambleau"2000 08 22C. L. Moore 22"The Mad Planet"2000 08 29Murray Leinster 23"Hurricane Trio"2000 09 05Theodore Sturgeon 24"The Moon Maid"2000 09 12Edgar Rice Burroughs 25"Ole Doc Methuselah"2000 09 19L. Ron Hubbard 26a"Blood"2000 09 26Fredric Brown 26b"A Little Bank Deposit"2000 09 26Gerald Kersh 26c"A Dialogue for the Year 2130"2000 09 26Thomas Henry Lister 26d"The Choice"2000 09 26Wayland Young External links Broadcast order as listed on the original 2000x site 2000X site - NPR 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia - Amazon.com OTR Plot Spot: 2000 X - plot summaries and reviews Category:American radio dramas Category:NPR programs Category:American science fiction radio programs Category:2000 radio programme debuts Category:2000 radio programme endings