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1925 In Science Fiction
The year 1925 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 22 : Katherine MacLean, American writer * February 14 : J. T. McIntosh, Scottish writer (died 2008) * March 12 : Harry Harrison (writer), Harry Harrison, American writer (died 2012 in science fiction, 2012) * June 9 : ** :fr:Robert K. Ottum, Bob Ottum, American writer (died 1986) ** Keith Laumer, American writer (died 1993) * August 18 : Brian Aldiss, British writer (died 2017 in science fiction, 2017) * Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Russian writer (died 1991) Deaths Events Awards The main Outline of science fiction#Science fiction awards, science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '':fr:Les Hommes frénétiques, Les Hommes frénétiques'', by Ernest Pérochon * '':fr:Les Navigateurs de l'infini, Les Navigateurs de l'infini'', by J.-H. Rosny aîné. * '':fr:La Sphère d'or, Ou ... [...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] |
1924 In Science Fiction
The year 1924 was marked, in 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 uni ..., by the following events. Births and deaths Births * June 6 : Robert Abernathy, American writer (died 1990) * July 20 : Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Berger, American writer (died 2014 in science fiction, 2014) * André Caroff, French writer (died 2009) Deaths Events Awards Literary releases Novels * ''Berge Meere und Giganten'', by Alfred Döblin. *''The City of Light (novel), The City of Light'', a novel by Mieczysław Smolarski in genres of Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopia and catastrophism. The novel's themes include antimilitarism and pacifism, prevalent after World War I. Stories collections Short stories * '':fr:Deux mille ans sous la mer, Deux m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Science
The year 1925 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space science * January 1 – Cecilia Payne completes her PhD thesis ''Stellar Atmospheres: a Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars'' at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, providing spectral evidence that stars are composed almost entirely of hydrogen with helium, contrary to scientific consensus at the time; however, her findings will be vindicated by 1929 and astronomer Otto Struve will describe her work as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy". Biology * July 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. * September – Official opening of Thijsse's Hof (Garden of Thijsse), the first wildlife garden in the Netherlands, in Bloemendaal near Haarlem. * Approximate date – Extinction of the Bubal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Kuleshov
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (russian: Лев Владимирович Кулешов; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969. He was intimately involved in development of the style of film making known as Soviet montage, especially its psychological underpinning, including the use of editing and the cut to emotionally influence the audience, a principle known as the Kuleshov effect. He also developed the theory of creative geography, which is the use of the action around a cut to connect otherwise disparate settings into a cohesive narrative. Life and career Lev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family.Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, ''50 Years in Films''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1975, 303 pp. (Autobiography) His father Vladimir Sergeevich Kuleshov was of noble heritage; he studied ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luch Smerti
''The Death Ray'' (russian: Луч смерти, Luch smerti) is a 1925 Soviet science fiction film directed by Lev Kuleshov. The first and last reels of the film have been lost. This film ran at 2 hours, 5 minutes, making this one of the earliest full length science fiction films. Despite the fact that many sources claim the inspiration for the film to be the novel '' The Garin Death Ray'' by Aleksei Tolstoy, this is not the case. It is impossible, since the book was published two years after the film, in 1927. Furthermore, the film has many similarities with a book by Valentin Kataev, called ''Lord of Iron'', published in 1924. Moreover, the theme of death rays was very popular at the time because of the 1923 claim of British inventor Harry Grindell Matthews to have created a "death ray". Plot The film takes place in an unspecified Western capitalist country where a fascist government is attempting to suppress a socialist uprising. The revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Clair
René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He went on to make some of the most innovative early sound films in France, before going abroad to work in the UK and USA for more than a decade. Returning to France after World War II, he continued to make films that were characterised by their elegance and wit, often presenting a nostalgic view of French life in earlier years. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Clair's best known films include '' Un chapeau de paille d'Italie'' (''The Italian Straw Hat'', 1928), '' Sous les toits de Paris'' (''Under the Roofs of Paris'', 1930), ''Le Million'' (1931), ''À nous la liberté'' (1931), ''I Married a Witch'' (1942), and ''And Then There Were None'' (1945). Early life René Clair was born and grew up in Paris in the district of Les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crazy Ray
''Paris Qui Dort'' (literally "Paris which sleeps") is a 1924 French science fiction comedy silent feature film (65 minutes) directed by René Clair. Also released as ''Le rayon de la mort (55 minutes),'' its international English-language titles were ''The Crazy Ray'' and ''Paris Asleep (usually 55 minutes).'' It has also been released in the USA as a 35 minute short subject called ''At 3:25.'' by Red Seal Pictures. Plot summary The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected by the ray begin to loot Paris. Cast *Henri Rollan as Albert *Charles Martinelli as The scientist * Louis Pré Fils as the detective * Albert Préjean as The pilot *Madeleine Rodrigue as Hesta, the airline passenger * Myla Seller as The niece / daughter of the scientist * Antoine Stacquet as The rich man *Marcel Vallée as the thief Home media The film is available on the Region 1 Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Belayev
Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Беля́ев, ; – 6 January 1942) was a Soviet Russian writer of science fiction. His works from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded figure in Russian science fiction, often referred to as "Russia's Jules Verne". Belyaev's best known books include ''Professor Dowell's Head'', ''Amphibian Man'', ''Ariel'', and '' The Air Seller''. Biography Alexander Belyaev was born in Smolensk in the family of an Orthodox priest. His father, after losing two other children (Alexander's sister Nina died at childhood from sarcoma and his brother Vasiliy, a veterinary student, drowned during a boat trip), wanted him to continue the family tradition and enrolled Alexander into Smolensk seminary. Belyaev, on the other hand, didn't feel particularly religious and even became an atheist in seminary. After graduating he didn't take his vows and enrolled into a law school. While he studied law his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Dowell's Head
''Professor Dowell's Head'' is a 1925 science fiction and horror story (and later novel) by Russian author Alexander Belyaev. Plot Professor Dowell and his assistant surgeon Dr. Kern are working on medical problems including life support in separated body parts. Dr. Kern kills Dowell (in a set up car / asthma accident). Professor Dowell's head is now kept alive and used by Dr. Kern for extraction of scientific secrets; however, his new assistant, the medically trained Marie Loren, discovers the ploy and is dismayed; to keep her from exposing him, Kern eventually gets her imprisoned in a false lunatic asylum for undesirables. Continuing his experiments, Dr. Kern transplants the head of a young woman to a new body. That body belongs to the girlfriend of a friend of Dowell's son, who recognizes her body when the young woman flees Dr. Kern's laboratory. Together, Dowell's son and his friend free Marie Loren. Dr. Kern is anxious to announce himself as the inventor. But Dowell's son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fatal Eggs
''The Fatal Eggs'' (russian: Роковые яйца, ) is a novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet novelist and playwright whose most famous work is ''The Master and Margarita''. It was written in 1924 and first published in 1925. The novel became quite popular, but was much criticised by most Soviet critics as a mockery of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the leadership of Soviet Russia. Background By 1924, Bulgakov was relatively well known as a writer. He had published several short stories, including '' Dyavoliada'', in some ways a precursor to ''Master and Margarita'', and started publishing his first novel, ''The White Guard''. ''The Fatal Eggs'' was finished in early October 1924 and published in the ''Nedra'' journal in February 1925, then included in the short-story collection ''Diaboliad'' later that year. A shortened edition was also published in May–June 1925 in the ''Krasnaya Panorama'' journal, under the title ''The Ray of Life'' (Russian: ''Луч жизни''). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel ''The Master and Margarita'', published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He is also known for his novel ''The White Guard''; his plays '' Ivan Vasilievich'', ''Flight'' (also called ''The Run''), and ''The Days of the Turbins''; and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.Bulgakov's biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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