1929 in science fiction explained

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 : Demètre Ioakimidis, French writer and anthologist (died 2012)
• December 27 : Philippe Curval, French writer^[4]

Deaths

Events

• Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.^[5]

Literary releases

Novels

• Mond-Rak 1, by Otfrid von Hanstein.^[6]
• The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.

Short stories

• The last man, by Wallace West.^[7]
• The Killing Flash, by Hugo Gernsback.^[8]
• The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.^[9]

Comics

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Authors : Godwin, Parke : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . 8 April 2019.
2. Web site: George Clayton Johnson, writer - obituary . Telegraph . 8 July 2018 . 28 December 2015.
3. Web site: Ira Levin . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ira-levin-400405.html . 2022-05-01 . subscription . live . The Independent . 8 April 2019 . en . 15 November 2007.
4. Web site: Authors : Curval, Philippe : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . 8 April 2019.
5. Web site: Culture : Wonder Stories : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . 8 April 2019.
6. Book: Smith . Michael G. . Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight . 2014 . U of Nebraska Press . 9780803255227 . 394 . en.
7. Web site: Authors : West, Wallace : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . 9 April 2019.
8. Web site: Authors : Gernsback, Hugo : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . 9 April 2019.
9. Book: Haynes . Roslynn D. . From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture . 2017 . JHU Press . 9781421423050 . 198 . en.
10. Web site: French . Philip . Woman in the Moon – Philip French on Fritz Lang's restored moon-mission yarn . The Guardian . 9 April 2019 . 23 November 2014.
11. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Elvey, Maurice (1887-1967) Biography . www.screenonline.org.uk . 9 April 2019.