2012 in science fiction
The year 2012 is marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
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Events
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George Lucas with the head of Disney Bob Iger and various Star Wars creators
- George Lucas sold Lucasfilm, with all its property, including Star Wars franchise, to Disney for $4 billion.
- Esli magazine closed down.
Deaths
Ray Bradbury, a famous science fiction writer, died in 2012
- February 3 – John Christopher, British writer (born 1922)[1]
- June 5 – Ray Bradbury, American writer (b. 1920)[2]
- August 15 – Harry Harrison, American writer (b. 1925)[3]
- November 19 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian writer (b. 1933)[4]
Films
Literature
- Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnson
- Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card
- Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
Awards
Saturn Award
- Best science fiction film: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Best Network Television Series: Fringe
Locus Award
gollark: So they do a lot of work trying to map the register-machine machine code onto that while trying to maintain the illusion of being fast PDP-11s or something.
gollark: Apparently what CPUs need is a dataflow graph so they know exactly how much stuff can be parallelized.
gollark: Machine code does often seem to map quite poorly to the actual CPU.
gollark: Hmm, yes, maybe I should be blaming the library designers who abstract over sockets weirdly.
gollark: Given that I mostly use higher-level languages, I generally expect more, well, typed-ness, than "everything is just an integer and there are many different things which operate on these integers in often mutually exclusive ways".
References
- "John Christopher - British author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- Pringle, David (6 June 2012). "Ray Bradbury obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- "Sci-fi author Harry Harrison dies". BBC News. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- Roth, Andrew (24 November 2012). "Boris Strugatsky, 79, Who Critiqued Soviets in Fiction, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
| Preceded by 2011 |
Science fiction by year 2012 |
Succeeded by 2013 |
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