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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 truquà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Bulmer
Henry Kenneth Bulmer (14 January 1921 – 16 December 2005) was a British author, primarily of science fiction. Life Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and they divorced in 1981. Bulmer lived in Tunbridge Wells, Kent where he died on 16 December 2005. Career in science fiction A prolific writer, Bulmer penned over 160 novels and numerous short stories, both under his real name and various pseudonyms. For instance, his long-running Dray Prescot series of planetary romances was initially published as Alan Burt Akers, and later as by the first-person protagonist of the series, Prescot himself. Bulmer's works are popular in translation, particularly Germany, to the extent that in some cases they have been published only in German editions, with the original English-language versions remaining unpublished. Bulmer did some work in comics, writing Jet-Ace Logan stories for '' Tiger'', scripts for ''War Picture Libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outline Of Science Fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". What is science fiction? * Definitions of science fiction: Science fiction includes such a wide range of themes and subgenres that it is notoriously difficult to define. Accordingly, there have been many definitions offered. Another challenge is that there is disagreement over where to draw the boundaries between science fiction and related genres. Science fiction is a type of: * Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also app ... [...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] |
1922 In Science Fiction
The year 1922 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * April 16: John Christopher, British writer (died 2012) * May 24: Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian writer (died 2013) * May 30: Hal Clement, American writer (died 2003) * September 19: Damon Knight, American writer (died 2002) * November 11: Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (died 2007) * Bob Leman, American writer (died 2006) 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 Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'', by Fritz Lang. See also * 1922 in science * 1921 in science fiction * 1923 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 with imaginative and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
1921 In Science
The year 1921 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space science * Commencement of Gas Dynamics Laboratory the first Soviet research and development laboratory to focus on rocket technology. Cartography * Winkel tripel projection proposed. Chemistry * Étienne Biéler and James Chadwick publish a key paper on the strong interaction. * December 9 – Thomas Midgley discovers the effective anti-knocking properties of tetraethyllead, which is used in "leaded" gasoline (petrol). Exploration * Danish explorer Lauge Koch first sets foot on and names Kaffeklubben Island, the northernmost point of land on Earth. Mathematics * John Maynard Keynes publishes ''A Treatise on Probability''. * Marston Morse applies the Thue–Morse sequence to differential geometry. * Emmy Noether publishes ''Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen'', developing ideal ring theory, an important text in the field of abstract algebra. * First publication of Ludwig W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Colin
Vladimir Colin (; pen name of Jean Colin; May 1, 1921 – December 6, 1991) was a Romanian short story writer and novelist. One of the most important fantasy and science fiction authors in Literature of Romania, Romanian literature, whose main works are known on several continents, he was also a noted poet, essayist, translator, journalist and comic book author. After he and his spouse at the time Nina Cassian rallied with the left-wing literary circle ''Orizont'' during the late 1940s, Colin started his career as a Communism, communist and Socialist realism, socialist realist writer. During the early years of the Communist Romania, Romanian Communist regime, he was assigned offices in the Censorship in Communist Romania, censorship and propaganda apparatus. His 1951 novel ''Soarele răsare în Deltă'' ("The Sun Rises in the Danube Delta, Delta") was an early representative of Socialist realism in Romania, local socialist realist school, but earned Colin much criticism from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Braddon
Russell Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, ''The Naked Island'', sold more than a million copies. Braddon was born in Sydney, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the Thailand-Burma Railway between 1942 and 1945. During this time he met Ronald Searle, whose Changi sketches illustrate ''The Naked Island''. After the war, he went on to study law at University of Sydney. Nevertheless, he failed to obtain a law degree (he maintained that he had lost interest in the subject) and he abandoned undergraduate life in 1948. In 1949, Braddon moved to England after suffering a mental breakdown and followed by a suicide attempt. Doctors attributed this breakdown to his POW experiences, and urged him to take a year to recuperate. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Coppel
Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921 – May 30, 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp magazine authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels. Science fiction Coppel's first science fiction story was "Age of Unreason" (1947) in '' Amazing Stories''."Alfred Coppel" in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (1999) edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls: 264 Other short stories include "The Dreamer" (1952) about a man called Denby, who wants to be the first to orbit the Moon, published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel ''Solaris (novel), Solaris''. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Lem is the author of the fundamental philosophical work "Summa Technologiae", in which he anticipated the creation of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and also developed the ideas of human autoevolution, the creation of Simulacrum, artificial worlds, and many others. Lem's science fiction works explore philosophical themes through speculations on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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