22nd century in fiction

Literature

Novels

• The second part of Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley is set in 2108.
• The House of the Scorpion and its sequel The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer are both set in this century. The Lord of Opium is explicitly said to be set in 2137.
• Hundred Decades by Robert Burrows
• Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Angels 2200 by Peter Haynes
• Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Kaleidoscope Century by John Barnes
• Noon Universe created by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
• The Mummy! by Jane C. Loudon the mummy of Cheops is bought back to life in 2126.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card occurs around 2135.
• Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein begins in 2136.
• Crisis in 2140 by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
• Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes takes place in 2154.
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein begins in 2188.
• Gradisil by Adam Roberts
• The Outward Urge by John Wyndham has the first successful landing on Venus in 2144.
• Solstice Butterfly by Jerald Beltran is set in 2131 & 2135.
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer occurs in 2194.
• Dirty Pair by Haruka Takachiho occurs during 2138–2143, though most incarnations of the story place the setting at 2141.
• Moving Mars by Greg Bear occurs during 2171–2184.
• The Mirrored Heavens' by David J. Williams is set in 2110.
• 2150 AD by Thea Alexander involves astral travel between 1976 and 2150.
• Fictionland by Carl Schulz is set in 2168.
• The Beast Of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams is set in 2120

  Short stories

• "It's Such a Beautiful Day" by Isaac Asimov is set in 2117.
• "Getting Real" by Harry Turtledove is set in 2117.
• In Flight on Titan a science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum in 2142 the Planetary Trading Corporation collapses.
• "The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov is set in 2157.
• In "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" by H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman Carter repels the Mongol hordes out of Australia in 2169.

  Comics

• Turma da Mônica Jovem by Mauricio de Sousa
• Doraemon is manufactured on 3 September 2112.
• The events of CLAMP's Chobits take place in the 22nd century.
• In Planet Comics No. 36 it is mentioned that the three children were put into suspended animation in 2110.
• Judge Dredd, a comic strip in 2000 AD.. The 1995 film specifically occurs in 2139.
• Strontium Dog, a 2000 AD story
• The Galactic War, a comic set in the 2140s–2200s.

  Television

''Doctor Who''

• In The Dalek Invasion of Earth the Daleks, in their 2nd appearance in the show, invaded Earth around 2164, and are planning to destroy its core and pilot it. After defeating the Daleks, the First Doctor leaves his granddaughter Susan in this time period with a resistance fighter named David..
• In Day of the Daleks an alternate timeline has the Daleks ruling Earth in the 22nd century after wars in the late 20th century. It is revealed these were caused by guerillas from this era trying to assassinate someone they blame for the war. The Third Doctor returns to the 20th century and saves the conference, averting this timeline.
• In the episode "The End of the World", the Ninth Doctor takes Rose Tyler to 2105, but then decides it's boring and leaves.
• The Doctor Who story "Nightmare of Eden" is set in 2116.
• The story "Under the Lake" is set in 2119.

  ''Star Trek''

• In the ' episode "Up the Long Ladder", the DY-500 class vessel S.S. Mariposa was said to have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 27 November 2123.
• In ' episode "Attached", in discussing the desire of the Kes to join the United Federation of Planets with Captain Picard, Dr. Crusher mentions that a world government is established on Earth in 2150.
• '. The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts with the Klingons, Andorians, and Romulans. According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people. Enterprise is decommissioned in 2161, just prior to the establishment of the United Federation of Planets.
• The Earth-Romulan War is fought between 2156 and 2160, resulting in the establishment of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet in 2161.
• In The' episode Ensigns of Command the Sheliak Treaty is signed on an unknown date in 2252 and fights with the Sheliak may have been at this time.

  Other television

Animated

Western

• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, an animated television series with Sherlock Holmes in a science fiction premise.
• Transformers Animated is set in 22nd-century Detroit, which has become the U.S.'s biggest manufacturer of robots.
• The events of BraveStarr take place in the 22nd century on the planet New Texas.
• The sixth season of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series, known as , takes place in 2105.
• In Movie the plot takes place in 2117
• In the TV series Time Warp Trio, Joe, Sam, and Fred meet Jodie, Samantha, and Freddi on 17 September 2105.
• The animated television series Exosquad is apparently set in the late 2110s.
• The Futurama Central Bureaucracy was established in 2158.
• The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange episode "Fruiturama" Is set in the year 2153

  Anime

• "Overlord", an anime set on the year 2138.
• "Doraemon" manufactured in the year September 3, 2112
• Psycho-Pass is set in the year 2113.
• Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross is set in the year 2120.
• Sōkyū no Fafner: Dead Aggressor: Exodus is set in 2151.
• DT Eightron, an anime set on the year 2187.
• The comedy sci-fi anime series Martian Successor Nadesico is set in the year 2196.
• Space Battleship Yamato was launched on 9 October 2199 on its desperate mission to save the earth in the Anime series of the same name.
• BlazBlue Alter Memory is a science fiction anime television series that takes place in December 2199.
• Medabots takes place in the 22nd century.
• takes place in 2140.

  Live action

• Many characters from the TV series Red Dwarf were born in the mid-22nd century.
• The CBBC show is set in the year 2110.
• Phil of the Future, a Disney Channel series..
• The SciFi Channel series FTL Newsfeed begins in the year 2142.
• The events of Captain Power occur in the year 2147.
• The events of the Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
• The Fox Network series Terra Nova takes place in the year 2149.
• The CW Series, The 100 begins in the year 2149, 97 years after the nuclear apocalypse that devastated Earth.
• In a Mac vs. PC commercial, PC travels to 2150 to see if the problems with PCs have been fixed. The PC of 2150 freezes when he gets there.
• Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.
• Syfy's Mission Genesis is set in 2157.
• In Babylon 5, the Foundationism religion was started in the year 2157 and Psi Corps was founded on 12 April 2161.
• In Curiosity, episode 11, "Can we live for ever?" an asteroid hits the Earth in the year 2182.
• Most of the scenes of each episode from the science fiction TV series Time Trax is set in the year 2193, with flashbacks to 1993.
• In the fifth season of Fringe, the origins of series antagonists "the Observers" are said to be from the year 2167.
• The CW series, Legends of Tomorrow, immortal dictator, Vandal Savage attacks and conquers London in a battle called "The Second Blitz" and murders Rip Hunter's family in the year 2166.
• The 1993 CBS series Space Rangers is set in the year 2104.
• On ABC's The Crossing , the refugees came from the year 2194.
• The CW series Pandora is set in 2199.
• Kamen Rider Kikai from Kamen Rider Zi-O hails from the year 2121.

  TV movies

• The Flipside of Dominick Hide is about a time traveler from 2130 looking for his ancestor in 1980.

  Film

Live action

• of move the setting from 1999 to 2100, likely to distinguish them from the TV series.
• The Matrix is a science fiction film in which the protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a reality is in fact computer simulation. Morpheus, another character of the movie, identifies the events of the movie as being set in the years around 2199. However, it was mentioned in the film The Matrix Reloaded that the movie took place in the 6th incarnation of The Matrix. By Morpheus's estimation, then, of there being an approximate 200-year difference between the era in the Matrix and the era of the real world, with the knowledge that Neo's time is actually the 6th incarnation of the Matrix, that could potentially mean the year in the real world is closer to the year 3399. However, since the second and third incarnations failed, it could be safe to assume they did not last 200 years each. Thus, the current year of the real world could be anywhere between approximately 2199 and 3399. Presumably, only the Machines would know for certain. In the Animatrix, 2105 is when Operation Dark Storm is supposed to be initiated.
• The 1997 film Total Reality directed by Phillip J. Roth is set in the year 2107.
• In AI, a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of artificial intelligence have become commonplace.
• Bicentennial Man, about half the events of this movie take place in the 22nd century.
• The first Alien film takes place in 2122. The sequels Aliens and Alien 3 both take place in 2179.
• The events of Disney's The Black Hole take place in the year 2130.
• One of the storylines in the movie Cloud Atlas is set in 2144.
• Avatar, is set in May through August 2154, although flashback scenes in the opening are set in 2148.
• The 2013 film Elysium is set in 2154.
• The 2008 film The Inhabited Island is set in 2157.
• The dystopian film In Time is set in 2169 where everyone is genetically programmed to not age beyond 25. To prevent overpopulation, people's lifespans have replaced traditional forms of currency.
• Sleeper, a Woody Allen movie, is set in 2173.
• John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars was set in the year 2176.

  Animated

• In the Pixar film WALL-E, the Axiom, the flagship of the fleet of BnL starliners, departs Earth for its five-year cruise which failed in 2105 because of toxic levels of pollution; in 2110 a distress signal is sent from Earth to all autopilots saying that Earth's rising toxicity levels has made life unsustainable and that all the starliners should remain in space.
• Astro Boy is set in 2108.
• The events of Sky Blue occur in the year 2142.
• Wonderful Days, a South Korean animated science fiction film, takes place in the year 2142.
• The Mystery of the Third Planet, a Soviet animated science fiction film, takes place in the year 2181.

  Video games

''Wipeout'' series

• Wipeout 3 takes place in 2116.
• takes place in 2127.
• Wipeout Fusion takes place in the year 2160.
• Wipeout Pure takes place in the year 2197.

  ''Mass Effect'' series

• A Prothean data store is uncovered on Mars in 2148, giving humans the technology for faster than light travel.
• Commander Shepard is born in 2154. Also, in 2157, the First Contact war occurs.
• A race of massive subterranean creatures were first encountered on the human colony of Akuze in the year 2177.
• Mass Effect takes place in the year 2183.
• Mass Effect 2 and the prologue to take place in the year 2185.
• Mass Effect 3 takes place in the year 2186.

  ''Earth'' series

• Earth 2140
• Earth 2150, The Earth is destroyed at the end of the year 2150.
• Earth 2160

  ''R-Type'' series

• R-Type Takes place in 2163, first Bydo mission
• R-Type Delta Takes place in 2164, 1 year after the events of the first game.
• R-Type II Takes place in 2165.
• Takes place in 2169.
• R-Type Final Takes place in 2183, 20 years after first Bydo mission

  ''BlazBlue'' series

• ' Takes place in December 2199.
• ' Takes place in January 2200, shortly after the events of Calamity Trigger.
• ' Takes place in February 2200, 1 month after the events of Continuum Shift.
• ' Takes place in February 2200, shortly after the events of.

  Other video games

• The ending scene of the Omar ending in Deus Ex Invisible War is set at some point in this century, where all the other factions have wiped themselves out, leaving only the heavily augmented Omar to survive the wastelands that Earth became.
• ' takes place in the 22nd century.
• Two games of the Red Faction series developed by THQ, ' and ', are set in the 22nd century.
• In the 1989 Japanese game Zero Wing, "war was beginning" in the year 2101.
• Starflight – In the year 2101, the scientific community on Earth makes a discovery that the endurium element discovered the prior year in 2100 can make Super-Photonic Flight practical. It is a crystal-like substance. It was discovered on the planet Mars.
• Fallout 76 begins in October 2102. The Wastelanders expansion begins a year later in 2103.
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri – The United Nations Starship Unity reaches the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri System in 2101; AD dates are kept, but called "Mission Years".
• The game SOMA takes place in the year 2104.
• The events of the Mega Man X series takes place all throughout the 2110s.
• In Putt Putt Travels Through Time, Putt-Putt travels to the future in the year 2112.
• Front Mission 3 takes place in 2112. Additionally, this is when the People's Republic of Da Han Zhong forms out of China.
• Rampage Through Time has a boss level that takes place in 2112.
• Mach Rider is a Nintendo Entertainment System game that is set in 2112.
• System Shock 2 is set on 12 July 2114.
• Overblood 2 takes place in 2115.
• Cybernoid is a Nintendo Entertainment System game that is set in 2117.
• In ', the year 2117, was the year that a race of aliens known as the Arelians had enslaved the human population of planet Earth using their henchmen, a savage race known as the Zorn.
• Overload takes place in the year 2118.
• Medabots takes place in the 22nd century; first mentioned during the show's initial dubbed intro song. However the original Japanese version takes place in 2022, while the dub takes place in 2122.
• Mission Critical video game by Legend Entertainment is set in 2134.
• The Descent video game reboot takes place some time after the year 2136.
• ' takes place in 2137.
• Battlefield 2142 is a computer game based on a war beginning in 2139. It also predicts that a new ice age will begin in 2106. Its expansion pack Northern Strike is set in 2145.
• In Doom, the events of the computer game series take place in the 22nd century, with Doom 3 set in 2145.
• Thunder Force V takes place in 2150.
• ', the Video game, takes place in 2152.
• Aliens vs. Predator series events take place in 2154.
• Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters begins on 17 February 2155 and ends in 2160.
• Global Agenda takes place in the year 2155, where the Commonwealth, an oppressive world government, is determined to control the entire planet.
• Solar Striker, a scrolling shooter for the Game Boy is set in the year 2159.
• Thunder Force VI takes place in 2161.
• Fallout begins in 2161.
• Zone of the Enders series, takes place from 2167 to 2174.
• The Guilty Gear series, namely Guilty Gear Accent Core Takes place in the years between 2174 and 2176.
• ' is set in 2179, 17 weeks after the events of Aliens.
• Starcross takes place in 2186.
• The exact timeline of the 2016 video game ' is unknown. But one of the UNSA ships in the game, the carrier Retribution, was known finished in 2187.
• The setting of the video game Syndicate Wars takes place in 2191, 95 years from the first game.
• Traffic Department 2192 takes place in 2192.
• Day of the Tentacle Laverne is sent "200 years in the future" from the year 1994, an era in which tentacles have conquered the world.
• The introduction video of ' has the date of 2196.2 written on it, presumably setting it in 2196.
• The events of ' takes place in 2197.
• The visual novel Tokyo Necro takes place in 2199.
• The game Stellaris takes place in 2115
• The game Subnautica takes place in late 22nd century.
• Gun Frontier is set in 2120.
• Wasteland 2 begins in 2102.

  Others

• Reich Star A table-top RPG which takes place in 2134, it was published by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson under the name of "Creative Encounters".
• "2112", the title track of the album of the same name by Rush about a man living in a dystopic society.
• The final scenes of The Timekeeper, a former ride at Disney parks, were set in Paris, 2189.
• Coheed and Cambria's song 2113 talks of a battle between good and evil, the Mages of Ryan and Claudio, The Crowing.