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).
July 9 : Zheng Wenguang, Chinese writer, (died 2003)
July 10 : George Clayton Johnson, American writer, (died 2015).^[1]
August 27 : Ira Levin, American writer, (2007).
October 1 : (in French) Demètre Ioakimidis, French writer and anthogist, dead in 2012.
December 27 : Philippe Curval, French writer.

Events

Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.

Literary releases

Novels

(in French) Mond-Rak 1, by Otfrid von Hanstein.
(in Russian) The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.

Short stories

(in French) The last man, by Wallace West.
(in French) The Killing Flash, by Hugo Gernsback.
The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.^[2]

Audiovisual outputs

Movies

Woman in the Moon, by Fritz Lang.
High Treason, by Maurice Elvey.

Awards

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

See also

References

↑ "George Clayton Johnson, writer - obituary". Telegraph. 28 December 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
↑ Haynes, Roslynn D. (2017). From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture. JHU Press. p. 198. ISBN 9781421423050.

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