Down And Out In The Year 2000 is a collection of previously published short and novella-length fiction works by Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 1992 by Grafton in the UK. It contains A Short, Sharp Shock (previously published as a novel), the novella The Blind Geometer and 9 stories from the short story collection Remaking History (1991). Its contents are:
- A Short, Sharp Shock
- The Blind Geometer
- The Lunatics
- A Transect
- Down and Out in the Year 2000
- Our Town
- The Return from Rainbow Bridge
- The Translator
- Glacier
- Before I Wake
- Zürich
The collection takes its title from the short story, which may be a reference to George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). Orwell’s work described the poverty in two big prosperous cities; similarly, the short story depicts poverty and destituted neighborhoods in the futuristic year 2000. Similarly, Cory Doctorow later published a novel called Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003).
Resources
- Down and Out in the Year 2000 at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Down and Out in the Year 2000 at Google Books