1929 in science fiction
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The year 1929 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
Births
- January 28 : Parke Godwin, American writer, (died 2013)[1]
- July 9 : Zheng Wenguang, Chinese writer, (died 2003)
- July 10 : George Clayton Johnson, American writer, (died 2015)[2]
- August 27 : Ira Levin, American writer, (died 2007)[3]
- October 1 : (in French) Demètre Ioakimidis, French writer and anthologist (died 2012)
- December 27 : Philippe Curval, French writer[4]
Deaths
Events
- Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.[5]
Literary releases
Novels
- (in French) Mond-Rak 1, by Otfrid von Hanstein.[6]
- (in Russian) The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.
Stories collections
Short stories
- (in French) The last man, by Wallace West.[7]
- (in French) The Killing Flash, by Hugo Gernsback.[8]
- The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.[9]
Comics
Audiovisual outputs
Movies
- Woman in the Moon, by Fritz Lang.[10]
- High Treason, by Maurice Elvey.[11]
Awards
The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.
See also
References
- ^ "Authors : Godwin, Parke : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "George Clayton Johnson, writer - obituary". Telegraph. 28 December 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- ^ "Ira Levin". The Independent. 15 November 2007. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Authors : Curval, Philippe : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Culture : Wonder Stories : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ Smith, Michael G. (2014). Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight. U of Nebraska Press. p. 394. ISBN 9780803255227.
- ^ "Authors : West, Wallace : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "Authors : Gernsback, Hugo : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ Haynes, Roslynn D. (2017). From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture. JHU Press. p. 198. ISBN 9781421423050.
- ^ French, Philip (23 November 2014). "Woman in the Moon – Philip French on Fritz Lang's restored moon-mission yarn". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Elvey, Maurice (1887-1967) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
