2012 has beenan incredible class for futuristic ontogeny , from the Olympics ’ Blade Runner to Pan troglodytes enhancement . So what might the coming year delay ? With another year upon us , we look at what science fiction books , television receiver , comics , and motion-picture show say will hap in yr 2013 .
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Judging from this lean , the twelvemonth 2013 sound rather disconsolate . Here ’s to a Modern year that ’s happier than what we ’ve cooked up in fiction :
China will record a “ Golden Age of Ascendancy ” ( The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung ) . This 2009 novel imagined that westerly nations would undergo a stagnation during a fresh economic crisis in 2011 , but China would love a period of great economical prosperity . By 2013 , the Chinese population would be prosperous and revel an inexplicable contentment . Of course , this contentment and successfulness does n’t get along out of nowhere , and it ’s all somehow link up to the event of February 2011 , a month few in Beijing can remember .
A 2d Great Depression will trigger a monolithic crime undulation in New York City ( Rivers of Gold by Adam Dunn ) . Dunn ’s 2010 novel also imagines an economically depressed near futurity for the United States , with the receding snowballing into the Second Great Depression . In New York , the event are devastating ; 2013 sees the metropolis ’s great restaurant , hotels , and dramatics close , a shantytown erected in Central Park , and many of the city ’s police military officer laid off , leading to a massive spike in offense .
A subverter will steal the US ’s super - weapon ( Escape from LA ) . In the continuation to get away from New York , a appendage of Peru ’s Shining Path uses the US President ’s girl to the remote control to a super weapon capable of put down the world ’s electronics . Then again , in this translation of 2013 , an earthquake has turn a big chunk of Southern California into an island .
A nuclear attack will menace England ( Spooks : Code 9 ) . This series starts after a nuclear attack on the 2012 Olympic Games lays waste to London , squeeze the government to move to Manchester . On the one - year anniversary of the calamity , another nuclear bomb threatens the land , sending the new young recruits of MI5 throw together to keep it from detonating .
A team of cyborgs will respond to terrorist bombardment ( 009 RE : CYBORG ) . Terrorism is also a major theme of this anime film , but London , Moscow , Berlin , and New York are all rocked by a series of coincident bombing . This force the disbanded Cyborg 00 team to get the crew back together to investigate the drive and motive behind the flack .
The US President will be mutated in a biologic attack ( Resident Evil 6 ) . Yes , terrorism again . The President of the United States decide to reveal the truth about the destruction of Raccoon City to the mankind , hoping it will put a halt to a late efflorescence of bioterrorist attack . But it ’s all for nil when the venue where he ’s giving his speech is itself subject to an attack . The President becomes infect with the C - computer virus and cursorily go zombie .
An epidemic will depopulate the planet ( The Scarlet Plague by Jack London ) . Writing in the twelvemonth 1912 , London imagine 2013 as the year when a global pandemic called the Red Death would excise manhood . Most of those infect died within an hour of showing symptom , and billion fell , leaving the world a much emptier place .
Americans will be living in a post - apocalyptic civilisation ( The Postman ) . The world has already gone to pot by 2013 in the film version of David Brin ’s novel . But 2013 is the yr that a survivor arrogate to be a postal doer for a reestablish American government . Hopefully , the real 2013 will get us better movies .
The first children in the next phase of human ontogenesis will be brook ( Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec ) . Dantec ’s novel ( which was adapted into the Vin Diesel vehicle Babylon A.D. ) envisions a 2013 filled with New Age cyborg and political turmoil . It also sees the birth of hyper - sound and hyperconscious twins who , it is predicted , will eventually supplant Homo sapiens .
The Doctor will thwart an invasion of androids in a monolithic entertainment complex ( Doctor Who : Autonomy ) . This novel sees the return of the creepy , mannequin - same Autons , who this time invade Hyperville , a massive complex where visitors can shop or enjoy the wonders of one of several themed entertainment zones . Fortunately , the tenth Doctor is on the case , keeping the world safe for consumer .
sponge will plague one of the world ’s most everlasting cities ( No.6 ) . After a warfare desolate most of the world , humanity is confined to six metropolis - states . metropolis No.6 is supposed to be an ideal city , but its facade of beau ideal begin to crumble in 2013 , when citizen become up dead , their body strangely aged by parasitical wasps .
Sentinels will start the United States ( X - Men , “ Days of Future Past ” ) . After the tenner - human race go bad to preclude the assassination of Senator Kelly in 1981 , the United States turns into an anti - mutant dystopia . Mutants live in concentration camp , letter carrier of the mutant gene are forbidden from make male children , and spotter melt everything . After Kitty Pryde ’s 2013 consciousness is air back into her 1981 body , she contend to queer Kelly ’s assassination , although her 2013 still subsist as an alternate hereafter .
Russia will transport vehement yard bird to a remote island in the Arctic ( Terra Nova ( Novaya Zemlya ) ) . In this 2008 Russian film ( not the TV series of the same name ) , capital punishment has been abolished , but the prisons are explode at the seams . So in 2013 , the governance tries a new experimentation : shipping convicts to the wintry island Novaya Zemlya . The prisoners are told they are there to get going colony , but it quickly turns into a brutal engagement for survival .
The United States will have several new states ( Milwaukee the Beautiful by Dakota James ) . In 2013 , the U.S. has more than 50 state , but rather than Puerto Rico or Guam , it ’s Buffalo , Duluth , St. Petersburg , and other pieces of exist US country that have join the club . By that year , the greenhouse issue has also do massive droughts and famine in Central America , South America , and Mexico , driving million to seek harbour in the US . But some states — like the new nifty state of Milwaukee — have particularly strict in-migration laws .
One in five Americans will be soak on illegal drugs ( A Scanner Darkly ) . Philip K. Dick ’s original novel was congeal in 1994 , but Richard Linklater ’s film version bump the context up to 2013 . Twenty percent of the universe is hooked on the addictive Substance D , and the government uses gamy - tech surveillance and underground agentive role to fight their losing war on drugs .
Neuroscientists will grow an accurate test for sociopathy in man ( A Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr ) . In the 2013 of Kerr ’s novel , a neuroscientist has discovered that an abnormalcy in manpower ’s brains is an incredibly reliable indicator of violent sociopathy . In the UK , the nature of criminal punishment has transfer by this twelvemonth , with punitive coma put back immurement and capital penalty .
The retail chain Tesco will obtrude upon Denmark ( Time Trumpet ) . One of the giddy 2013 case comes from the comedic mockumentary from the future miniseries . One Tesco has fully saturate Britain , they will set their sights on Denmark . When the Danes resist , the retail merchant will add out the War of the Worlds - style Tesco Alice Malsenior Walker .
The Design Aesthetic Wars will break out ( Legion of Super - Heroes ) . We do n’t know much about this 2013 conflict , but fit in to Cosmic Boy , it will leave in streak codes being outlawed , at least the ones on comic book covers .
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