2009 - in Fiction

In Fiction

Set in 2009:

• Abuse (1996)
• Incoming (1998)
• Half-Life (1998) – although the date is never explicitly referenced, 2009 is the last year that Half-Life could be set in, as calendars in the game display '200X.'
• Dino Crisis (1999)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), the Plant chapter occurs on 29 and 30 April 2009, causing devastation to New York City from its coast, when Arsenal Gear crash lands into Federal Hall.
• Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005): Storyline begins on 31 August.
• Fahrenheit (also known as "Indigo Prophecy" in North America) (2005)
• Shattered Union (2005): U.S. President David Jefferson Adams is elected in a sham election, and becomes the most unpopular president in U.S. history.
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown (2005)
• MINERVA (2005), is set in October 2009.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (2006), takes place between April 2009 and March 2010.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (2006)
• Freejack (1992), in November
• 2009 Lost Memories (2002)
• 2012 (2009): The initial events take place in India in late 2009.
• I Am Legend (2007): The events triggering the story begin 9 December 2009.
• Cloverfield (2008): On 22 May, the events of the story take place.
• Eagle Eye (2008): The events of the movie take place between 26 January and 12 April 2009.
• Navy (2017)
• Macross (1982–1983) (adapted outside Japan as the first part of Robotech): The alien Zentradi arrive at Earth on February 7 (February 9 in Robotech), triggering the devastating Space War I or First Robotech War.
• Family Matters: In the 1994 episode "Father of the Bride", Carl Winslow sleeps for fifteen years and wakes up in the year 2009 where main characters Steve Urkel and Laura Winslow are married with four children.
• Charmed ("Morality Bites", 1999) Phoebe Halliwell is executed on February 26 by burning at the stake for murdering a man with her powers.
• Batman Beyond (1999 – 2001): In the episode "Out of the Past," it is revealed that sometime in 2009, Batman fought Ra's al Ghul in an incident referred to as "The Near-Apocalypse of 09." The event is also referenced again in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Epilogue"
• Blue Gender (1999–2000): A vicious new disease breaks out forcing Yuji Kaido and other infected humans into cryogenic stasis until a cure can be found.
• Dark Angel (2000–2002): Max Guevara and her "brothers and sisters" escape from Manticore in 2009. America is devastated by an electromagnetic pulse later in the same year.
• Ultraman Nexus (2004–2005) is set in 2009, acting as a sequel to the 2004 film Ultraman: The Next which was set in its production year.
• The West Wing ("The Ticket", 2005): Former President Jed Bartlet opens his presidential library in New Hampshire and chats with some of his former staffers.
• 2007 television series The Sarah Jane Adventures is set in this time, the earliest January following "a year and a half" after Doctor Who episode "School Reunion".
• Doctor Who:

1. Series 3 (2007) episode Last of the Time Lords is set mainly in a parallel year.
2. Series 4 (2008) episodes Partners In Crime, The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky and The Stolen Earth/Journey's End; and Turn Left, (which is set in a parallel universe).

• The Red Dwarf miniseries Back To Earth's scenes on Earth are set in the Easter season of 2009.
• Wilson Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970)
• Gregory Benford, Threads of Time (1974)
• David Brin, The Postman (1985)
• Robert W. Sawyer, Flashforward (1999)