The year 1905 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

* January 6:

Eric Frank Russell Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's ''Astounding Science F ...

, British writer (d. 1978) * July 5: Günther Krupkat, German writer (d.

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

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Deaths

* March 24: Jules Verne, French writer, (b.

1828 Events January–March * January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France. * January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized. * January 22 – Arth ...

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Literary releases

Short stories

* Rudyard Kipling, "With the Night Mail" (American and British magazine publication). * '' Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes'', short story by Mark Twain.

References

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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 unive ...