Group |
Where |
Year |
Source |
Quote/ Notes |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1990 |
Anthony, Patricia. "For No Reason " in Eating Memories. Woburn, MA: First Books; Baltimore, MD: Old Earth Books (1997; c. 1990); pg. 128. |
- |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1990 |
De Haven, Tom. Walker of Worlds. New York: Doubleday (1990); pg. 17. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1991 |
Ing, Dean. Butcher Bird. New York: Tom Doherty Associates (1993); pg. 185. |
Pg. 185, 203-205, more: Pueblo, Colorado; Pg. 222-223, more: Denver; Pg. 227: Colorado Springs; pg. 289: Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1991 |
Ing, Dean. The Nemesis Mission. New York: Tor (1991); pg. 94. |
Pg. 94, 103: Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1992 |
Powers, Tim. Last Call. New York: William Morrow & Co. (1992); pg. 53. |
Colorado River (also pg. 129) |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1993 |
Anthony, Patricia. Brother Termite. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. (1993); pg. 2. |
"...pictured the triangular thrust of the Rockies with the beards of conical firs, shapes within shapes within shapes. Perhaps soon he would take a needed Colorado vacation. Perhaps one day he would do the unthinkable and retire. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1993 |
Morrow, James. Only Begotten Daughter. New York: William Morrow & Co. (1990); pg. 137. |
"...shy Lutheran minister in Denver... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1993 |
Simmons, Dan. "Entropy's Bed at Midnight " in Lovedeath. New York: Warner Books (1993); pg. 1. |
"We'd just gotten out of Denver, headed west during Friday rush hour... the next morning in Breckenride I saw the photos of the wreckage on the front pages of both the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News... The small ski town was more 'real' than Vail or Aspen... " [More about Colorado, not in DB.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1993 |
Simmons, Dan. The Hollow Man. New York: Bantam (1993); pg. 84. |
Pg. 90, 92, etc.: [Denver, Colorado. First mentioned here, as a character buys tickets to travel to Denver. Later, a significant portion of the novel takes place in Colorado.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1994 |
Clarke, Arthur C. & Gentry Lee. Cradle. New York: Warner Books (1988); pg. 18. |
"Todd himself was twenty-eight, an Annapolis graduate in aerospace engineering, a gung-ho Navy bachelor, who had grown up in Littleton, a suburb of Denver in Colorado. Todd was ambitious and in a hurry... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1996 |
Bear, Greg. The Forge of God. New York: Tor (1987); pg. 217. |
"'My group has listening stations in the Philippines and the Aleutians. We're also tapped in to the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Information Center in Colorado...' " [Some other minor refs. to Colorado, not in DB.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1996 |
Knight, Damon. Humpty Dumpty: An Oval. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 179. |
Pg. 179: "The car broke down twice, once in Boulder and once in Salt Lake City. "; Pg. 222: "'...and Denver, then Oakley...' "; Pg. 244: "...flying drones filling the skies over Colorado and Nevada... In the parking lot of a hotel in Winnemucca, Nevada... "; Pg. 249: Denver; Pg. 255: Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1996 |
Leon, Mark. The Unified Field. New York: Avon Books (1996); pg. 234. |
"She was replaying a recent scene in her mind from a small farming town in eastern Colorado. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1996 |
McDevitt, Jack. Ancient Shores. New York: HarperCollins (1996); pg. 18. |
Pg. 18: Denver; Colorado Springs; Pg. 318: University of Colorado |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1998 |
Bradley, Marion Zimmer & Holly Lisle. In the Rift. New York: Baen (1998); pg. 197. |
"She glanced through the handbook, looking at full-color photos of the company housing complexes in Colorado, California, Arizona, and Oregon... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1998 |
Ing, Dean. The Skins of Dead Men. New York: Tom Doherty Associates (1998); pg. 55. |
Pg. 55: Denver; Pg. 125: Colorado; Pg. 126-127: Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1999 |
Cerasini, Marc. Godzilla 2000. New York: Random House (1997); pg. 198. |
Pg. 198: "'Then I called in other psychiatrists that I know,' Markham continued. 'In Pittsburgh, Denver, Detroit...' "; Pg. 238-252: [Takes place at Gunnison County Airport, Gunnison, Colorado, and elsewhere in Colorado, including Grand Junction.] [Also: pg. 254, 291.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1999 |
Kessel, John. Good News from Outer Space. New York: Tor (1990; c. 1989); pg. 51. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
1999 |
Willis, Connie. "Epiphany " in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. New York: Bantam (1999); pg. 281. |
Pg. 281: "'...I can fly out of Denver just as easily as out of Omaha. If we drive as far as Denver...' " [More.]; Pg. 285: "...a green poster for the carnival taped up... It was an old sign. 'Littletown, Dec. 24,' it read. 'Ft. Dodge, Dec. 28. Cairo, Dec. 30. " [More, incl. pg. 295, 297, etc.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2000 |
Silverberg, Robert. The Stochastic Man. New York: Harper & Row (1975); pg. 51. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2001 |
Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. New York: Tor (1977; c. 1975); pg. 128. |
- |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2001 |
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New York: New American Library (1969; c. 1968); pg. 73. |
"The stars overhead were only a little brighter, or more numerous, than on a clear night from the high plateaus of New Mexico or Colorado. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2004 |
Dick, Philip K. The Zap Gun. New York: Bluejay Books (1985; c. 1965); pg. 80. |
"They were now passing over Colorado and the Rockies could be seen below, briefly, but due to the nobility of their discussion they ignored that great range. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2008 |
Clarke, Arthur C. The Songs of Distant Earth. New York: Ballantine (1986); pg. 13. |
Pg. 13: "No one heard the first tolling of Earth's funeral bell--not even the scientists who made the fatal discovery, far underground, in an abandoned Colorado gold mine. "; Pg. 14: "The first secret meeting in the history of the International Astronomical Union took place in 2008 at Aspen, Colorado--not far from the scene of the original experiment, which had now been repeated in a dozen countries. " [More, pg. 13-15.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2009 |
Sawyer, Robert J. Flashforward. New York: Tor (2000; c. 1999); pg. 40. |
Boulder |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2010 |
Anthony, Patricia. Cold Allies. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1993); pg. 28. |
"Near Calhan, Colorado ...Behind the Colorado State policeman with the Bermuda shorts and mirror sunglasses... The man stopped reading aloud from Colorado Injunction 236 to look back over his shoulder... " [More. This section, pg. 28-31, takes place in Colorado. More, pg. 52-54, 82-84, 112-113, 122-124, 129-133.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2011 |
Willis, Connie. "The Last of the Winnebagos " in Impossible Things. New York: Bantam (1994; story copyright 1988); pg. 6. |
Pg. 6, 12, 16, etc. |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2013 |
Anthony, Patricia. "The Last Light from Llano " in Eating Memories. Woburn, MA: First Books; Baltimore, MD: Old Earth Books (1997; c. 1993); pg. 225. |
Pg. 225, 229. |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2019 |
Burton, Levar. Aftermath. New York: Warner Books (1997); pg. 7. |
"Leon graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in atmospheric science. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2020 |
Simmons, Dan. "E-ticket to 'Namland " in Prayers to Broken Stones. New York: Bantam (1992; c. 1987); pg. 212. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2020 |
Zelazny, Roger. Damnation Alley. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1969); pg. 25. |
"...as far as he was concerned, the Alley started in the place that had once been called Colorado. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2020 |
Zelazny, Roger. Damnation Alley. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1969); pg. 66. |
"...passing later through Rocky Mountain National Park... That evening they skirted the ruin that was Denver, and Tanner took over as they headed toward the place that had once been called Kansas. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2022 |
Wilson, Robert Charles. The Chronoliths. New York: Tor (2001); pg. 41. |
- |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2024 |
Clarke, Arthur C. & Mike McQuay. Richter 10. New York: Bantam (1996); pg. 278. |
Colorado River |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2025 |
Dick, Philip K. The Penultimate Truth. New York: Dell (1964); pg. 109. |
Pg. 109: "In other words, Adams realized , they exist there in that subsurface warehouse in Colorado. But they're for you, you hulking, wheezing, dribbling, rotting old sack of fat; you need every artiforg heart there can be, to keep that carcass functioning. "; Pg. 111: "The advanced weapons archives of the Agency was one of the many sections of New York which Brose had 'attached,' just as he had attached the artiforgs in the Colorado subsurface warehouse. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2027 |
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Gold Coast. New York: Tor (1995; c. 1988); pg. 289. |
Boulder |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2028 |
Hogan, James P. The Two Faces of Tomorrow. New York: Baen (1997; c. 1979); pg. 136. |
"A General Linsay, formerly attached to the Special Electronics Weapons Trials Unit of the Army located in Colorado... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2030 |
Hogan, James P. Entoverse. New York: Ballantine (1991); pg. 113. |
"...the directors from the Denver corporation... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2040 |
Bova, Ben. Moonrise. New York: Avon Books (1996); pg. 228. |
"There was a touch of gray at his temples, but otherwise his hair was dark, his face taut and tanned from ski vacations back home in Colorado. " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2044 |
Sterling, Bruce. Distraction. New York: Bantam (1998); pg. 215. |
Pg. 215: "'Look, we're not talking Geronimo here. The President is a billionaire timber baron who was Governor of Colorado.' "; Pg. 373: "Even Oscar had expected little of him; the governorship of Colorado had never given Two Feathers much chance to shine. " [Also pg. 262-263, 374, 379.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2045 |
Clarke, Arthur C. & Mike McQuay. Richter 10. New York: Bantam (1996); pg. 337. |
Pg. 337: "'...Some of it is quite remarkable. There's a fellow in Colorado, America, and one in Argentina who are diverting underground rivers, bringing them to the surface and controlling their flows to avoid hot areas...' "; Pg. 340-347: scene takes place in Colorado |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2045 |
Wilson, Robert Charles. Memory Wire. New York: Bantam (1987); pg. 45. |
"He had migrated here [to Brazil] from Colorado before Keller was born... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2049 |
Knight, Damon. A For Anything. New York: Tor (1990; 1959); pg. 30. |
Pg. 30: "'Yes, Misser Dick. You going away by Colorado tomorrow.' "; Pg. 35: "But he was sixteen, and not yet the Man; and he had to go off to Colorado for four years. Dick's grandfather, as it happened, had taken and held Buckhill in the first place with the help of the MacDonald family, who were collateral ancestors of the present Boss in Colorado. As a consequence, Buckhill was still considered the leading house of the whole eastern seaboard above Charleston Manor, and Buckhill's heir automatically became a brigade officer in the Boss's army, to serve a four-year hitch at Eagles in Colorado. It was an honor, he was looking forward to it, and he couldn't get out of it even if he wanted to; so that was that. " [Much of the novel takes place in Colorado, although the state is rarely mentioned by name.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2049 |
Knight, Damon. A For Anything. New York: Tor (1990; 1959); pg. 91. |
Pg. 91: "The Colorado-style clothes he was wearing were clumsily cut, but the best he had been able to get; the fabrics seemed dull, too, although they had looked all right when the tailor brought them to his rooms. "; Pg. 115: "'...the Edmond Cenotaph, erected in memory of Edmond Crawford, second Boss of Colorado.' This was an enormous wedding cake of granite and white metal; there was an inscription... "; Pg. 163: "'...Well, mister, he married her and they had a son--the present Boss of Colorado...' " [Colorado is the major setting of the novel. All refs. to Colorado by name are indexed.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2050 |
Willis, Connie. "Fire Watch " in Fire Watch. New York: Bluejay (1984; story copyright 1982); pg. 10. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2082 |
Haldeman, Joe. Buying Time. New York: William Morrow & Co. (1989); pg. 130. |
"People could get to Denver for ten dollars apiece--but they had to hire two hundred-dollar bodyguards before daring to go downstairs. " [More about Denver, pg. 133, etc.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2100 |
Dickson, Gordon R. Necromancer. New York: Tor (1998; c. 1962); pg. 10. |
"That had been on the first team at Colorado Institute of Mines, where he had taken his undergraduate work. " [More, pg. 10-12.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2110 |
Clarke, Arthur C. The Hammer of God. New York: Bantam (1993); pg. 142. |
- |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2135 |
Dick, Philip K. Our Friends From Frolix 8. New York: Ace Books (1970); pg. 107. |
"'...They may retreat as far from me as is physically possible. They may retreat to Denver, Colorado, bunch up there like scared cats...' " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2169 |
Dick, Philip K. "War Veteran " in The Preserving Machine. New York: Ace Books (1969; c. 1955); pg. 70. |
Pg. 70: Denver (also pg. 86) |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2199 |
Clarke, Arthur C. & Gentry Lee. Rama II. New York: Bantam (1989); pg. 147. |
"...to the Space Academy in Colorado... " [Also pg. 254.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2237 |
Butler, Octavia E. Dawn. New York: Warner Books (1997; c. 1987); pg. 86. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2323 |
Cherryh, C. J. Heavy Time. New York: Warner (1991); pg. 29. |
"Say, I come from Colorado--Ben'd say, Is that a city? But Ben didn't really know what a city was. You couldn't figure how Ben read that word. Say, I went up to Denver for the weekend, and Ben'd look at you funny, because weekend was another thing that didn't translate... " |
Colorado |
Colorado |
2324 |
Cherryh, C. J. Hellburner. New York: Warner (1992); pg. 4. |
Pg. 2: "The clock on the screen said: 0842 June 14, 2324. "; Pg. 4: "He'd had a partner back in the Belt, Morrie Bird, who had used to talk to him about Colorado, and cities and sunsets and Shakespeare. Bird had set a lot of personal store by Shakespeare. Bird had thought Shakespeare was important to understand. So when it had turned out of all things that he was going to the inner system, he had made it a certain point to see this Shakespeare guy--translated tapes, of course. V-vids where you could wander around and watch the body language. And Bird had been a hundred percent right: Shakespeare really helped you figure out Earthers. " [More, pg. 4.] |
Colorado |
Colorado |
3000 |
Hubbard, L. Ron. Battlefield Earth. New York: St. Martin's Press (1982); pg. 127. |
Pg. 127: "He grabbed a book, [Colorado, Scenic Wonderland], glanced at it, and gave it to Terl. "; Pg. 242: "The drone spotted the satellite landing near Colorado City, Colorado. Causes most structures there to collapse. "; Pg. 371: New Denver; Pg. 412: Denver (also pg. 444, 479-480, 555, 566.) |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1869 |
Bethke, Bruce. Wild Wild West. New York: Warner Books (1999); pg. 120. |
"But that would have to wait until Denver at least, or more likely, Salt Lake City. " |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1941 |
Turtledove, Harry. Worldwar: Tilting the Balance. New York: Del Rey (1995); pg. 8. |
Pg. 8: Denver (also pg. 12, 17); Pg. 121: "'...If he was only a couple of weeks behind them, they'd be into Colorado by now, not too far from Denver. He might even catch them before they got there...' "; Pg. 169: University of Denver [also pg. 145, 147, etc.] |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1946 |
Bishop, Michael. Brittle Innings. New York: Bantam (1994); pg. 494. |
"Three years later I received a registered letter from Seattle, Washington. It contained round-trip tickets to Seattle from Tulsa, with stopovers in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Spokane. " |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1953 |
Dick, Philip K. Mary and the Giant. New York: Arbor House (1987); pg. 70. |
Denver |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1970 |
Zelazny, Roger. "My Lady of the Diodes " in Unicorn Variations. New York: Timescape (1983; story c. 1970); pg. 152. |
Pg. 152-156 |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1971 |
Matheson, Richard. Bid Time Return. New York: Viking Press (1975); pg. 8. |
Pg. 8: "How many downtowns will I see? Denver? Salt Lake City? Kansas City? "; Pg. 21: "In a few days, I'll get up one morning and start off for Denver and all points east. " [Also, pg. 30, 39, 62, 184.] |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1983 |
Powers, Tim. The Anubis Gates. New York: Ace (1983); pg. 26. |
Pg. 26, 30, etc. |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1996 |
Frakes, Jonathan & Dean Wesley Smith. The Abductors: Conspiracy. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 10. |
"...just finished his first year of college in Denver... " |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1998 |
Wood, Crystal. Cut Him Out in Little Stars. Denton, TX: Tattersall Publishing (revised and reprinted 1998; c. 1994); pg. 172. |
"'...We'll be going to Denver next week, and after that, Phoenix, Salt lake City, Seattle, and finish up in L.A...' " |
Colorado |
Colorado: Denver |
1998 |
Wood, Crystal. Cut Him Out in Little Stars. Denton, TX: Tattersall Publishing (revised and reprinted 1998; c. 1994); pg. 222. |
"'Ah, next weekend. Denver, isn't it? Rocky Mountain High, and all that...' " [More about Denver, pg. 228, 254, 259, 262, 282.] |