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1920 In Science Fiction
The year 1920 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 2: Isaac Asimov, American writer, (died 1992). * May 9: **William Tenn, American writer (died 2010) ** Richard George Adams, British writer (died 2016) * June 13: Walter Ernsting, German writer, (died 2005) * August 22: Ray Bradbury, American writer (died 2012) * October 8: Frank Herbert, American writer (died 1986) * Peter Phillips, British writer (died 2012) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' We'', novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. * ''A Voyage to Arcturus'', novel by David Lindsay. * '' Le Formidable Événement'', novel by Maurice Leblanc. * ''City of Endless Night'', novel by Milo Hastings. Stories collections Short stories The Comet, short story by W. E. B. Du Bois Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Algol'', by Hans Werckmeister. * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Asimov
yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (1922–1928)American (1928–1992) , occupation = Writer, professor of biochemistry , years_active = 1939–1992 , genre = Science fiction (hard SF, social SF), mystery, popular science , subject = Popular science, science textbooks, essays, history, literary criticism , education = Columbia University ( BA, MA, PhD) , movement = Golden Age of Science Fiction , module = , signature = Isaac Asimov signature.svg Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...'s creation Sherlock Holmes. The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine ''Je sais tout'', starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's ''Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique'' (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy ''Scrupules'' (1902), whose main character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction By Year
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 In Science Fiction
The year 1921 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 14: Kenneth Bulmer, British writer (died 2005) * January 25: Russell Braddon, Australian writer (died 1995) * May 23: James Blish, American writer (died 1975) * May 31: Arthur Sellings, British writer (died 1968) * June 6: Francis G. Rayer, British writer (died 1981) * August 11: Henri Viard, French writer (died 1989) * August 19: Gene Roddenberry, American television screenwriter, producer and creator of the original Star Trek television series (died 1991) * September 12: Stanisław Lem, polish writer (died 2006) * October 7: H. H. Hollis, American writer (died 1977) * November 9: Alfred Coppel, American writer (died 2004) * Vladimir Colin, writer (died 1991) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels Stories collections Short stories * '' L'Homme truqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Science Fiction
The year 1919 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * October 3 : John Boyd, American writer (died 2013) * October 15 : Edwin Charles Tubb, British writer (died 2010) * November 26 : Frederik Pohl, American writer (died 2013) Deaths Events * Creation of the French review '' Sciences et Voyages''. Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * First publication of '' Out of the Silence'', by Erle Cox. Stories collections Short stories Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies The Harry Houdini serial The Master Mystery featured the first robot in film, called the Automaton. See also * 1919 in science * 1918 in science fiction * 1920 in science fiction References {{Reflist Science fiction by year * science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Science
The year 1920 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space science * January 13 – ''The New York Times'' ridicules rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard, stating that spaceflight is impossible. In 1969, with Apollo 11 on its way to the Moon, the newspaper will publicly retract this position. * December 13 – The red giant star Betelgeuse is the first to have its diameter determined by an optical astronomical interferometer, the Michelson stellar interferometer on Mount Wilson Observatory's reflector telescope. Biology * Andrew Douglass proposes dendrochronology dating. * Approximate date – The HIV pandemic almost certainly originates in Léopoldville, modern-day Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo. History of science and technology * Newcomen Society founded in the United Kingdom for the study of the history of engineering and technology. Medicine * Frederick Banting and Charles Best co-discover insulin. * Hans Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served in the Imperial German Army, initially as an infantry company commander on the Eastern Front. Murnau later transferred to the German Army's Flying Corps, as an observer/ gunner, and survived several crashes without any severe injuries. One of Murnau's acclaimed works is the film ''Nosferatu'' (1922), an adaptation of Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. Although not a commercial success, owing to copyright issues with Stoker's estate, the film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema. He later directed the film '' The Last Laugh'' (1924), as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's ''Faust''. He emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Head Of Janus
''Der Januskopf'' () is a 1920 German silent film directed by F. W. Murnau. The film was an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''. Little is known about the production; it was shot and previewed under the title ''Schrecken'' () with production starting in either February or March 1920. The film received great acclaim in Germany from trade publication and newspapers on its release, specifically noting the performance by Conrad Veidt. The film is a lost film and has been described by Bela Lugosi biographers Gary Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger as being "among the most sought-after lost films" due to its initial critical acclaim and what Robert Louis Stevenson researcher Steve Joyce described as an "all-star" film team of cinematographer Karl Freund, director F. W. Murnau and actors Conrad Veidt and Bela Lugosi. Plot The surviving script for the film refers to Dr.Jeskyll who lives in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Werckmeister
Hans Werckmeister (1879 - 4 July 1929) was a German film director. He is best known for his film ''Algol''. Selected filmography * ''The Golden Net'' (1922) * ''The Affair of Baroness Orlovska'' (1923) * ''The Brigantine of New York ''The Brigantine of New York'' (german: Die Brigantin von New York) is a 1924 German silent film directed by Hans Werckmeister and starring Lotte Neumann, Karl Beckersachs, and Elisabeth Pinajeff.Krautz p. 197 The film's sets were designed by t ...'' (1924) References External links * 1879 births 1929 deaths Film directors from Berlin {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algol (film)
''Algol: Tragedy of Power'' (german: Algol. Tragödie der Macht) is a 1920 German science fiction film about an alien from the planet Algol. Production background The film was directed by Hans Werckmeister and stars Emil Jannings and John Gottowt. The story centers on a human who is given a machine by an alien spirit which, if used, would allow him to rule the world. The sets for the movie were constructed by Walter Reimann, one of the set designers of '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (released February 1920). The film was produced by the Deutsche Lichtbild-Gesellschaft (German Light Play Company) in Berlin and was distributed by Universum Film AG (UFA). Its first release was on 3 September 1920 in Berlin, and was subsequently released worldwide including a launch in Finland on 7 November 1921. Preservation status For many years it was believed that this was a lost film, but an intact version was recovered. It was screened by MoMA on Monday 29 November 2010 as part of their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comet (short Story)
The Comet is a science fiction short story, written by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1920. It discusses the relationship between Jim Davis (a Black man) and Julia (a wealthy white woman) after a comet hits New York and unleashes toxic gases that kill everyone in New York (it isn't specified whether it's the entire state or just the city) except them. Originally published as the tenth chapter of Du Bois's '' Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil'', "The Comet" was reprinted in the 2000 anthology ''Dark Matter: The Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction by Black Writers''. It helped lay the foundation for a paradigm known as Afrofuturism. Plot summary “The messenger," a man named Jim, descends into the lower vaults of the bank where he works to complete a task for the president. Jim silently considers his frustration with the task while the conversation of his superiors revolves around discussion of "the comet” which is to pass near the Earth soon. While Jim is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milo Hastings
Milo Milton Hastings (June 28, 1884 – February 25, 1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health, among other things. Some of his writing is available in book form and on Project Gutenberg. Hastings was married twice and had three children. Writer Born in Farmington, Atchison County, Kansas, Hastings wrote all his life. His books covered a broad range of topics: chicken husbandry (''The Dollar Hen''), science fiction (''City of Endless Night''), nutrition (''Physical Culture Cook Book''), health (''High Blood Pressure''). Hastings spent the bulk of his professional life as the food editor for Bernarr Macfadden writing hundreds of columns on food and nutrition for ''Physical Culture'' magazine. Hastings contributed several entries to ''The Olympian System'', a four volume set of books published by Macfadden to promote his not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
