Disco 2000

Nineteen Stories from the Last Hours of 1999

Edited by Sarah Champion

Publisher: Sceptre

ISBN: 0340707712

Territory: UK and Commonwealth

Formats: Mass market paperback (379 pages)

Release date: 19 February 1998

The follow up to Disco Biscuits, Disco 2000 was an anthology of stories which were set in the last hours of 31 December 1999. They were written in the late 1990s in response to the escalating pre-millennial tension. It featured 19 specially commissioned stories from some of the world's top writers, encompassing all genres from cyberpunk to chemical, horror and crime. These included Douglas Coupland, Nicholas Blincoe, Robert Anton Wilson, Neal Stephenson and Poppy Z. Brite.

Disco 2000 embraced all the classic end-of-the-millennium motifs - hedonism, insanity, religious mania, suicide cults, future technology, time travel, chemical excess and media conspiracies - all of which filled people's imaginations as the end of the century approached.

Original Jacket Blurb

The party starts here. With a cast of crazy scientists, nomadic DJs, fetish queens, conspiracy theorists, killer ants, graffiti artists, gangsters, convicts, cult leaders, Netheads, replicants, religious maniacs and ballroom dancers.

It's the last night of the millennium and anything could happen. Every imaginable religious cult and faction is descending on the holy city of Jerusalem, while in London people are mysteriously disappearing. The leader of a cult is drawing together his tribe, while in Manila a man is eating a bowl of breakfast cereal. Around the globe, TV broadcasts the end-of-the-world predictions of crackpot professors and in every city the parties are going of control.

Pat Cadigan 'Witnessing the Millennium'

Nicholas Blincoe 'English Astronaut'

Grant Morrison 'I'm a Policeman'

Jonathan Brook 'Identity'

Poppy Z. Brite 'Vine of the Soul'

Charlie Hall 'The Millennium Loop'

Doug Hawes 'A Short Archaeology of the Chemical Age'

Paul Di Filippo 'Mama Told Me Not to Come'

Steve Aylett 'Gigantic'

Bill Drummond 'Lets Grind or How K2 Plant Hire Ltd Went to Work'

Martin Millar 'Radiant Flower Of The Divine Heavens'

Helen Mead 'Game On'

Courttia Newland 'Piece of My Mind'

Douglas Rushkoff 'Is Everybody Here?'

Tania Glyde Pavlov's Bitch and Yoga Cow Reach 2000'

Steve Beard 'Retoxicity'

Neal Stephenson 'Crunch'

Robert Anton Wilson 'Dali's Clocks'

Douglas Coupland 'Fire At the Ativan Factory'

Soundtrack

A soundtrack CD and vinyl pack was produced for the Disco 2000 anthology. It's a collection of specially written strange and twisted sci-fi tunes with elements of hip-hop, disco, jungle and jazz from the likes of Coldcut, u-Ziq, the KLF, Jimi Tenor, Alabama 3, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Ken Ishii more...