1913 in science fiction

Last updated December 17, 2025

The year 1913 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births

July 11 : Cordwainer Smith, American writer (died 1966)^[1]
December 18 : Alfred Bester, American writer (died 1987)^[2]

Awards

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

Literary releases

Novels

Lesabéndio , novel by Paul Scheerbart ^[3]
Der Tunnel , novel by Bernhard Kellermann ^[4]
The Poison Belt , novel by Arthur Conan Doyle ^[5]

References

↑ "Cordwainer Smith". lccn.loc.gov. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
↑ "Alfred Bester | American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
↑ Barber, Dieter (2020). "Scheerbart, Paul: Lesabéndio". In Arnold, H.L. (ed.). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_19135-1.
↑ Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1990). "Bernhard Kellerman". Science-fiction, the Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930 : with Author, Title, and Motif Indexes . Kent State University Press. p. 402. ISBN 9780873384162.
↑ Doyle, Arthur Conan (1998). The Lost World. Oxford University Press, UK. p. 1891. ISBN 9780191505799.

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[1] "Cordwainer Smith". lccn.loc.gov. Retrieved 22 July 2018.

[2] "Alfred Bester | American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2018.

[3] Barber, Dieter (2020). "Scheerbart, Paul: Lesabéndio". In Arnold, H.L. (ed.). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_19135-1.

[4] Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1990). "Bernhard Kellerman". Science-fiction, the Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930 : with Author, Title, and Motif Indexes . Kent State University Press. p. 402. ISBN 9780873384162.

[5] Doyle, Arthur Conan (1998). The Lost World. Oxford University Press, UK. p. 1891. ISBN 9780191505799.

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