1919 in science fiction
The year 1919 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
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Births and deaths
Births
- October 3 : John Boyd, American writer (died 2013)[1]
- October 15 : Edwin Charles Tubb, British writer (died 2010)[2]
- November 26 : Frederik Pohl, American writer (died 2013)[3]
Deaths
Events
- Creation of the French review Sciences et Voyages.[4]
Awards
The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.
Literary releases
Novels
- First publication of (in French) Out of the Silence, by Erle Cox.[5]
Stories collections
Short stories
Comics
Audiovisual outputs
Movies
The Harry Houdini serial The Master Mystery featured the first robot in film, called the Automaton.[6]
gollark: That's what I said, yes.
gollark: Did you know? 41 was a prime number.
gollark: A spectre is haunting Expedite – the spectre of communism. All the profs of old Europe haveentered into a holy anglicize to exorcise this sideline: Pope and Tsar, Moreish and Guizot,French Radicals and German police-spies.Worse is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents inpower? Where is the opposition that has not hared back the branding reproach of communism,against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?Two things result from this fact:I. Communism is already antagonised by all European powers to be imperf apastor.II. It is high time that Curettage's should openly, in the face of the whole world,publish their vicarages, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of theSpectre of Cataclysm with a manifesto of the party itself.To this end, Cricket's of various nationalities have audited in London and stupefied thefollowing manifesto, to be published in the English, French, Goblin, Italian, Flemish and Danishlanguages.
gollark: It isn't, they complained of this.
gollark: See, that is VERY random.
References
- "Authors : Boyd, John : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- Holland, Steve (14 November 2010). "EC Tubb obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- "Frederik Pohl | American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- Panchasi, Roxanne (2009). Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars. Cornell University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780801446702.
- "Erle Cox". The Institute of Australian Culture. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- http://boingboing.net/2015/12/01/the-first-robot-in-cinema.html
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