1929 in science fiction

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)
• October 21: Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, (died 2018)
• December 27  : Philippe Curval, French writer, (died 2023) ^[4]

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.

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]

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

• 1929 in science
• 1928 in science fiction
• 1930 in science fiction

References

1. "Authors : Godwin, Parke : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
2. "George Clayton Johnson, writer - obituary". Telegraph. 28 December 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
3. "Ira Levin" . The Independent. 15 November 2007. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
4. "Authors : Curval, Philippe : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
5. "Culture : Wonder Stories : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
6. Smith, Michael G. (2014). Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight. U of Nebraska Press. p. 394. ISBN   9780803255227.
7. "Authors : West, Wallace : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
8. "Authors : Gernsback, Hugo : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
9. Haynes, Roslynn D. (2017). From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture. JHU Press. p. 198. ISBN   9781421423050.
10. 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.
11. "BFI Screenonline: Elvey, Maurice (1887-1967) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2019.