Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a 1992 American Christmas comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It is the second film in the "Home Alone" series and the sequel to "Home Alone". Macaulay Culkin reprises his role as Kevin McCallister, while Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern reprise their roles as the Wet Bandits, now known as the Sticky Bandits. Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Rob Schneider, Tim Curry, and Brenda Fricker are also featured. Kevin and his family decide to take a trip to Florida,
City at the End of Time books include characters who dream of cities in the far future (the Kalpa, and the Last Redoubt in "The Night Land") which are surrounded by encroaching chaos. The Kalpa also draws on Arthur C. Clarke's future city, Diaspar in his 1956 novel, "The City and the Stars". Influences of other past works on "City at the End of Time" include H. P. Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936), in which people exchange personalities in dreams across time, and Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men" (1930), in which the last of humanity in the deep future mentally contact people