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) August 27 : Ira Levin, American writer, (died 2007) October 1 : 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)
Deaths
Events Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.
Literary releases
Novels Mond-Rak 1, by Otfrid von Hanstein. The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.
Stories collections
Short stories The last man, by Wallace West. The Killing Flash, by Hugo Gernsback. The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Comics
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 1929 in science 1928 in science fiction 1930 in science fiction
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