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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] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...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] |
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] |
1918 In Science Fiction
The year 1918 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 26 : Philip José Farmer, American writer (died 2009) * February 26 : Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (died 1985) 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 * '' Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne'', by Jenő Illés and Josef Klein. See also * 1918 in science * 1917 in science fiction * 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 Poh ... References {{Reflist * science-fiction Science fiction by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Science
The year 1919 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy * The International Astronomical Union is established in Paris. Chemistry * June 1 – The term ''covalence'' in relation to chemical bonding is first used by Irving Langmuir. * F. W. Aston discovers multiple stable isotopes for neon. History of science * Leonard Eugene Dickson begins publication of ''History of the Theory of Numbers''. Mathematics * Viggo Brun proves Brun's theorem ''B''2 for twin primes. Medicine * Dr George Newman is appointed as the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England and Wales. Physics * May 29 – Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light" during the total solar eclipse on this day observed in Principe, and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil (confirmed November 6). * Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel publish their displacement law. * Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Mystery
''The Master Mystery'' is a 1918 American mystery silent serial film told in 15 installments. The film was directed by Harry Grossman and Burton L. King and written by Arthur B. Reeve and Charles Logue. The film stars Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton, William Pike, and Charles Graham. Episode 1 was released on November 18, 1918, by Octagon Films. It is one of the first films to feature a powered exoskeleton. Plot Justice Department agent Quentin Locke is investigating a powerful cartel that is protected by The Automaton, a robot. However, it uses a gas weapon known as The Madagascan Madness. Cast * Harry Houdini as Quentin Locke *Marguerite Marsh as Eva Brent *Ruth Stonehouse as Zita Dane *Edna Britton as De Luxe Dora *William Pike as Paul Balcom *Charles Graham as Herbert Balcom *Floyd Buckley Floyd Buckley (October 21, 1877 - November 14, 1956) was an American film, stage, and radio actor whose career began with Buffalo Bill and ended with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erle Cox
Erle Cox (15 August 1873 – 20 November 1950) was an Australian journalist and science fiction writer. Life Cox was born at Emerald Hill, Victoria, on 15 August 1873, the second son of Ross Cox, who had emigrated from his native Dublin as a youth during the early gold rush days of the 1850s. He was educated at Castlemaine Grammar School and Melbourne Grammar School. Following school, Cox worked as a wine-grower near Rutherglen, Victoria, before moving to Tasmania. On 24 December 1901 he married Mary Ellen Kilborn and some time later the couple settled in Melbourne. In 1921, Cox joined the editorial staff of '' The Argus'' newspaper as a writer of special articles and book reviewer under the pen name 'The Chiel'; later he was the principal movie critic. In 1946 he joined the staff of ''The Age'' after being given notice from ''The Argus''. Cox died in 1950 after a long illness. Works Three early works were published in the ''Lone Hand Magazine'': ''Reprieve'', ''Diplomacy ... [...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] |
October 3
Events Pre-1600 * 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. * 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. * 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost. * 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. * 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. * 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the '' Watergeuzen''. 1601–1900 * 1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. *1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel ''All the Lives He Led''. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited '' Galaxy'' and its sister magazine '' If''; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel '' Gateway'' won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas ''The Years of the City'', one of two repeat winners during the first 40 years. For his 1979 novel ''Jem'', Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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