1936 in science fiction

The year 1936 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

April 19 : Tom Purdom, American writer.
June 11 : (in French) Bernard Dufossé, French draftsman.
November 18 : Suzette Haden Elgin : American writer, dead in 2015.
November 19 : Wolfgang Jeschke, German writer, dead in 2015.

Events

First publication of the British magazine Novae Terrae ; the magazine will be named New Worlds in 1939.

Literary releases

Novels

The Cometeers, by Jack Williamson (weekly publication in Astounding).

Comics

Ksenia Moskalenko as a cosmonaut in Soviet film Cosmic Voyage

Movies

Flash Gordon, by Frederick Stephani and Ray Taylor.
Things to Come, by William Cameron Menzies.
Kosmicheskiy reys (Cosmic Voyage), by Vassili Jouravlev.

Awards

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

See also

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