Science Fiction Year 1951

Literary prizes

The Retro Hugo Awards for 1951 were presented in 2001.

Hugo Award
author	Original title	German edition	category
Robert A. Heinlein	Farmer in the Sky	Farmer in space	Best novel
Robert A. Heinlein	The Man Who Sold the Moon	The man who sold the moon	Best short novel
Cyril M. Kornbluth	The Little Black Bag	The little black bag	Best story
Damon Knight	To serve man	A plan for humanity too: How to prepare people	Best short story

German title	Year of publication in German	Original title	author	Remarks
Demolition	1979	The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester	first published in 1960 in a heavily abridged version in Germany
The illustrated man	1962	The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury
The astronauts	1960	Astronauci	Stanislaw Lem
The puppeteers	1957	The Puppet Masters	Robert A. Heinlein
The Triffids	1955	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham
SOS, the earth is cold	1952	City at World's End	Edmond Hamilton	review
Rich in the moon	1951	Rich in the moon	Friedrich Hecht as Manfred Langrenus

German title	Year of publication in German	Original title	Director	Remarks
In Sherlock Holmes' footsteps	1952	Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man	Charles Lamont	Parody of the film The Invisible One
The thing from another world	1951	The Thing from Another World	Christian Nyby	based on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Judgment Day	1952	When Worlds Collide	Rudolph Maté	based on the novel When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer
The man in the white suit	1955	The Man in the White Suit	Alexander Mackendrick
The day the earth stood still	1952	The Day the Earth Stood Still	Robert Wise	after the story, Farewell to the Lord from Harry Bates
The last five	1952	Five	Arch Oboler
Superman and the Mole Men	2006	Superman and the Mole Men	Lee Sholem
The atomic duck	1952	Mr Drake's Duck	Val Guest
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere		Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere	Spencer Gordon Bennet , Wallace Grissell	15-part cinema serial
Flight to Mars		Flight to Mars	Lesley Selander
Help, i'm invisible	-	-	EW Emo
		Lost Planet Airmen	Fred C. Brannon
		The Man from Planet X	Edgar G. Ulmer
		Mysterious Island	Spencer Gordon Bennet	15-part cinema serial
Jules Verne - The journey to the mysterious island		Lost Continent	Sam Newfield
		Two Lost Worlds	Norman Dawn
		Unknown World	Terry O. Morse

German title	sent	Original title	Episodes	Seasons
Captain Z-RO	1951-1956	Captain Z-RO	77
Out there	1951-1952	Out there	12	1
Tales of Tomorrow	1951-1953	Tales of Tomorrow	84

9th Worldcon , 1st – 3rd September, New Orleans , Chairman: Harry B. Moore , Guest of Honor: Fritz Leiber