History Literature / Millennium

* UnreliableNarrator: In the last chapter, Sherman reveals that Louise is actually one of these; she's so intensely delusional that she doesn't know she's pretty much the only ninety-ninth century human who ''doesn't'' use a prosthetic skinsuit to support a mutated, crippled body. There's no telling what else is wrong with her. Or if any of her statements have even ''that'' much connection to reality.

* UnreliableNarrator: In the last chapter, Sherman reveals that Louise is actually one of these. For example, she's so intensely delusional that she doesn't know she's pretty much the only ninety-ninth century human who ''doesn't'' use a prosthetic skinsuit to support a mutated, crippled body. There's no telling what else is wrong with her.

* AdamAndEvePlot: While there are lots of disaster survivors in the end to move the race on, [[spoiler: it turns out Louise was not at all a cyborg, that her body skin was keeping her from knowing that truth, and she alone of the future humans was able to reproduce.]]

Meanwhile, about ''eighty thousand years'' in the future, mankind is on its last gasp[[note]](Beat ''that'' TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}!)[[/note]]. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive issues in the future they came from.

Meanwhile, about ''eighty thousand years'' in the future, mankind is on its last gasp[[note]](Beat ''that'' TabletopGame/Warhammer40000!)[[/note]]. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive issues in the future they came from.

Meanwhile, about ''eighty thousand years'' in the future, mankind is on its last gasp[[note]](Beat ''that'' {{Warhammer 40,000}}!)[[/note]]. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive issues in the future they came from.

Meanwhile, about ''eighty thousand years'' in the future, mankind is on its last gasp(Beat ''that'' {{Warhammer 40,000}}!). Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive issues in the future they came from.

Meanwhile, about a thousand years in the future, mankind is on its last gasp. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive issues in the future they came from.

* SexBot: Sherman obliges when the need arises.

* IdiotBall: Bill - and NTSB agent who should know better about tinkering with evidence - stuns himself by continuing to prod around on the inside of the stunner when he knows he should be calling people about it. He lampshades this in his testimony.

The book was made into a movie, also called ''Film/{{Millennium}}'', in 1989.

* DeusEstMachina: [[spoiler: turns out Big Computer was actually God on earth.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: The Big Computer had been God himself all along, directing humans how to save their race.]]

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler: Big Computer]]

* SexBot:Sherman obliges when the need arises.

This book [[SimilarlyNamedWorks is not to be confused]] with either the mystery show ''Series/{{Millennium}}'', or ''TheMillenniumTrilogy'', a series of books and films of Swedish origin.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[BerzerkButton Louise gives one]] to Bill when he asks what the future had done to screw everything up, when it was actually the result of his generation and onwards.

Meanwhile, about a thousand years in the future, mankind is on its last gasp. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive, issues in the future they came from.

The book was made into a movie, also called ''Literature/{{Millennium}}'', in 1989.

A 1983 novel by Creator/JohnVarley.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Sherma say's he's like Jesus. Louise makes a comment and he changes it to Moses. In the end it turns out he's been the prophet of Big Computer all along.]]

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: To get the stunner back that was left behind. Unfortunately, it was found before they could get it meaning they had to go back earlier and try to stop Bill from even being there in the first place...

* PopulationXAndCounting: Louise asks Sherman the population of earth as most people are committing suicide. He keeps updating his answer to reflect reality.

Meanwhile, about a thousand years in the future, mankind is on its last gasp. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft, replace them with duplicate but brain-dead bodies and put the saved passengers in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive, damaging earthquake-like tremors in the future they came from.