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Fiction and popular culture set in or referencing the year 2007:

Computer and video games


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  • Mega Man: Dr. Thomas Light is awarded the Nobel Prize for the creation of the Robot Master.
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (2004): The second Korean War begins.
  • Set in 2007:
  • * Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001): Solid Snake boards a vessel (Discovery) in Huston bay, New york to photograph the prototype Metal Gear RAY on August 8th a little after 10 pm then less then an hour later .
  • * Act of War: Direct Action (2005)
  • * Battlefield 2 (2005)
  • * Duke Nukem 3D (1996): Specifically, sometime in December.
  • * Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (2003)
  • * Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (2005)
  • * Outcast (1999)
  • * Airforce Delta supposedly begins in 2007, as the game dates the year XX07, and the war that happens in the game (starting in XX05 or 2005) ends a few months or even a year later.


  • Films


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  • Films set in 2007:
  • * Paycheck (2003)
  • * The Jacket (2005)
  • * Death of a President (2006): United States President George W. Bush is assassinated on October 19.
  • * Double Dragon (1994)


  • Literature


    Chronology:
  • March 20: The Forever War (1975) by Joe Haldeman: some events take place in 2007, including the March 20 callup to perpetual soldier Private William Mandella, who spends years away from Earth, though time passes relatively slow for him at hyperlight speeds.
  • May 1: The Third Millennium by Brian Stableford and David Langford Crisis resolved after Arab powers had threatened to destroy Tel Aviv with a nuclear bomb.
  • July 2: 'God's Own Country by Stephen Donnan: Human civilisation is destroyed in the Cataclysm brought about when our universe collides with another, bringing the Skeen to Earth.
  • July 12: The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein (1951): Events take place in 2007, beginning with a Roswell like crash near Grinnell, Iowa.
  • August 20: The Next War by Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweizer Japan invades Taiwan and the Phillippines
  • September 22: Nature's End by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka Massive flooding in the Midwest
  • October 9: A Reasonable World, by Damon Knight Trial over McNulty's Disease begins in Portland
  • November 1: The Metaconcert, by Julian May U.S.S.R. declares war on Islamic nations,
  • November 25: The Genesis Machine (1978) by James P. Hogan U.S. of Europe, U.S.A. Republics of Canada and of Japan, Federation of Australia and New Zealand, Federation of Malaysia and Indonesia, and Euro-Russia Federation attack Grand Alliance of Progressive Peoples Republics.
  • Autumn: Mars by Ben Bova Multinational expedition of 25 astronauts lands on the Red Planet in autumn, a year before the presidential election, and sometime between the 50th anniversaries of Sputnik and Explorer I
  • December: Nobel prizes awarded in Medicine and Physiology to Archer and Denckla for isolation of Anti-DECO, the "anti-death hormone" July 20, 2019 by Arthur C. Clarke; and to Ching-mei Huang for her discovery of the basic theory behind time travel, End of an Era by Robert L. Sawyer


  • Other references:
  • 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke China builds interplanetary spaceship
  • * Exiles to Glory by Jerry Pournelle
  • Freedom's Rangers series by Keith William Andrews
  • The Ghost of the Grand Banks by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Paradise 1, by Alan Harrington
  • The Shape of Things to Come (1934) by H.G. Wells the number of political murders worldwide reaches a record low
  • The Steps of the Sun, by Walter Tevis Chinese armies rout Russian army in one week long Urals Campaign
  • Texas on the Rocks by Daniel DaCruz
  • * When Time Stood Still (1962) by Ben Orkow Trip from Zurich to New York takes 57 minutes by rocketplane
  • The Wild Country, by Dean Ing


  • Television and video series

  • Sealab 2021: Episode "Chickmate" set in the future says that the Internet almost kills all of mankind somewhen this year.
  • The OC: Airs its last episode on the 22nd February.
  • The Simpsons: In the 2000 episode "Insane Clown Poppy," Homer and Bart blow up Santa's Little Helper's dog house; the new doghouse is expected to be completed by January 2007.
  • Dead Ernest (1980): Ernest (played by Andrew Sachs), is scheduled to die by God in 2007, in bed in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.
  • Macross Zero (2002): The VF-0 variable fighter is tested and events take place in 2007.
  • Odyssey 5 (2002): Earth is destroyed on August 7. The minds of the surviving crew of the Space Shuttle Odyssey are sent back in time by a being known as The Seeker to prevent the destruction.
  • Daria: In the episode That Was Then, This is Dumb, Jane Lane tells Jesse Moreno that aliens will take over civilization on April 1 of this year.
  • Set in 2007:
  • * Doctor Who: The episodes "School Reunion", "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" (aired 2006) take place between January 30 and February 2, the latter two in an alternate reality. "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" likely take place later this year. "The Runaway Bride" was set in Christmas 2007.
  • * Wild Palms (1993) Synthiotics technology allows TV viewers to experience television programs in virtual reality, but only at the cost of brainwashing... and men wear their ties outside their collars.
  • Double Dragon (Vanna White and George Hamilton deliver the news for L.A.'s Channel 102


  • Media franchises


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  • .hack - The ALTIMIT OS operating system is released, alongside the MMORPG The World.










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