1937 in science fiction

The year 1937 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Years in science fiction
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2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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2020s 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029

Births and deaths

Births

February 19 : Terry Carr, American writer and editor (died 1987)[1]
February 22 : Joanna Russ, American writer (died 2011)[2]
April 9 : Barrington J. Bayley, British writer (died 2008)[3]
May 13 : Roger Zelazny, American writer (died 1995)[4]
May 27 : Gérard Klein, French writer and editor[5]
September 19 : Jean-Pierre Andrevon, French writer[6]

Literary releases

Novels

(in French) La Cité des asphyxiés, by Régis Messac.[7]
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon.[8]
Galactic Patrol, by Edward Elmer Smith.[9]
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin.[10]

Short stories

Travel by Wire!, Arthur C. Clarke's first published story[11]

Comics

(in French) Futuropolis, by René Pellos.[12]

Movies

Night Key, by Lloyd Corrigan.[13]

Awards

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

See also

References

"Authors : Carr, Terry : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
"Joanna Russ: Writer and critic who helped transform the science". The Independent. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
"Barrington J. Bayley: Science-fiction writer who treated the human". The Independent. 27 October 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
"Roger Zelazny | American writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
"Authors : Klein, Gérard : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
Rottensteiner, Franz (1999). View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction. Oxford University Press. p. 248. ISBN 9781846314360.
NRP Collège - Les mondes de la science-fiction - Mars 2016 (Format PDF) (in French). Nathan. 2016. p. 22. ISBN 9782091117287.
McCarthy, Patrick A. (2004). "The Genesis of "Star Maker"". Science Fiction Studies. 31 (1): 25–42. JSTOR 4241227.
Sawyer, A.; Wright, P. (2011). Teaching Science Fiction. Springer. p. 90. ISBN 9780230300392.
McManus, Darragh (12 November 2009). "Swastika Night: Nineteen Eighty-Four's lost twin". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
Stableford, Brian (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 59. ISBN 9781135923747.
Roberts, Adam (2016). The History of Science Fiction. Springer. p. 274. ISBN 9781137569578.
"Night Key (1937)". BFI. Retrieved 1 April 2019.

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