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Billenium (or Billennium) is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published in the November 1961 issue of New Worlds and in the 1962 collection Billennium. [1] [2] It later appeared in The Terminal Beach (1964), Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971), and The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006).
Billennium may refer to: 2nd millennium, the second period of one thousand years in the Common Era; 3rd millennium, the period of time which began with the year 2001; Beretta 92 Billennium, a type of pistol; Unix billennium, a point in Unix time which occurred in 2001 "Billennium" (short story), a short story by J. G. Ballard
At 01:46:40 UTC on Sunday, 9 September 2001, the Unix billennium (Unix time number 1 000 000 000) was celebrated. [40] The name billennium is a portmanteau of billion and millennium . [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Some programs which stored timestamps using a text representation encountered sorting errors, as in a text sort, times after the turnover starting ...
Billennium (1962) Passport to Eternity (1963) The 4-Dimensional Nightmare (1963) The Terminal Beach (1964) The Impossible Man (1966) The Overloaded Man (1967) The Disaster Area (1967) The Day of Forever (1967) Vermilion Sands (1971) Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971) Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976) The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977)
"Billennium" "The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon" "The Lost Leonardo": A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the Crucifixion of Jesus is stolen from the Louvre Museum. Two art directors, seeking the thief, examine several crucifixion paintings, each also previously stolen, and discern a hitherto-unnoticed man in each one.
The story is set in the City, a densely-inhabited ecumenopolis that comprises the entire universe of its inhabitants (essentially, an arcology with no outside.) In terms of infrastructure and culture, the City resembles a large American metropolis of the 1950s, with period-typical dwellings, businesses, streets, and transit - but extended indefinitely in all directions, including vertically ...
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