Disco 2000

Disco 2000 is a 1998 anthology of short fiction edited by music journalist Sarah Champion. The stories in the collection are set in the last hours of 1999, and while the authors featured are largely known for their science fiction work, not every story is strictly of that genre. The collection is a follow-up to Champion's previous collection, Disco Biscuits, which took the British club scene as its topic. Contents "Witnessing the Millennium" by Pat Cadigan People around the world are inexplicably vanishing \- and rumour is that the only way to survive is to be seen at all times. As New Year's Ever partygoers fight to be seen on TV cameras around the world, the narrator instead decides to sit alone on a London park bench. He is accosted first by a group of drunk homeless men, then by a TV news crew, leading to a fight that knocks him to the ground. When he recovers to find everyone gone and only the news crew's equipment left, he realises that people are somehow being pulled into the cameras themselves. "English Astronaut" by Nicholas Blincoe Harry, an Englishman, who has seemingly become unhinged by a life of non-stop, round-the-world partying, travels to Jerusalem, believing that if he plays Karen Carpenter's "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" as the new millennium begins, he will ascend into the Heavens. He manages to seize the Dome of the Rock, but is fatally shot by security forces. As he dies, he does indeed feel his spirit moving on.