1937 in science fiction

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The year 1937 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

February 19 : Terry Carr, American writer and editor (died 1987)^[1]
February 22 : Joanna Russ, American writer (died 2011)^[2]
April 9 : Barrington J. Bayley, British writer (died 2008)^[3]
May 13 : Roger Zelazny, American writer (died 1995)^[4]
May 27 : Gérard Klein, French writer and editor^[5]
September 19 : Jean-Pierre Andrevon, French writer^[6]

Deaths

Events

Literary releases

Novels

(in French) La Cité des asphyxiés, by Régis Messac.^[7]
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon.^[8]
Galactic Patrol, by Edward Elmer Smith.^[9]
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin.^[10]

Stories collections

Short stories

Travel by Wire!, Arthur C. Clarke's first published story^[11]

Comics

(in French) Futuropolis, by René Pellos.^[12]

Movies

Night Key, by Lloyd Corrigan.^[13]

Awards

The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.

References

^ "Authors : Carr, Terry : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ "Joanna Russ: Writer and critic who helped transform the science". The Independent. 27 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ "Barrington J. Bayley: Science-fiction writer who treated the human". The Independent. 27 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ "Roger Zelazny | American writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ "Authors : Klein, Gérard : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ Rottensteiner, Franz (1999). View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction. Oxford University Press. p. 248. ISBN 9781846314360.
^ NRP Collège - Les mondes de la science-fiction - Mars 2016 (Format PDF) (in French). Nathan. 2016. p. 22. ISBN 9782091117287.
^ McCarthy, Patrick A. (2004). "The Genesis of "Star Maker"". Science Fiction Studies. 31 (1): 25–42. JSTOR 4241227.
^ Sawyer, A.; Wright, P. (2011). Teaching Science Fiction. Springer. p. 90. ISBN 9780230300392.
^ McManus, Darragh (12 November 2009). "Swastika Night: Nineteen Eighty-Four's lost twin". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ Stableford, Brian (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 59. ISBN 9781135923747.
^ Roberts, Adam (2016). The History of Science Fiction. Springer. p. 274. ISBN 9781137569578.
^ "Night Key (1937)". BFI. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2019.