1929 in science fiction
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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]
Deaths
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.
Stories collections
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]
Comics
Audiovisual outputs
Movies
Awards
The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.