Science Fiction Year 1957
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | Science Fiction Year 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | ► | ►►
Other events
Literary prizes
Hugo Award
Hugo Award | |||
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author | Original title | German edition | category |
Category not assigned | Best novel | ||
Category not assigned | Best story | ||
Category not assigned | Best short story |
New publications literature
German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
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Andromeda Nebula | Russian Туманность Андромеды , transcribed Tumannost Andromedy | Ivan Yefremov | ||
Atlas throws off the world | 1989 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | |
Inhabitants of the Milky Way | 1958 | Citizen of the Galaxy | Robert A. Heinlein | review |
The learned republic | 1957 | - | Arno Schmidt | |
The wanderings of Mr. Green | 1968 | The Green Odyssey | Philip José Farmer | review |
The naked sun | 1960 | The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | |
The rat in the maze | 1971 | Szczur w labyrincie | Stanislaw Lem | |
The sting of the wasp | 1973 | Wasp | Eric Frank Russell | |
The earthly man's heavy burden | 1981 | Earthman's Burden | Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson | review |
Glass bees | 1957 | - | Ernst Jünger | |
memory | Memory | Poul Anderson | ||
In the depths of the sea | 1962 | The Deep Range | Arthur C. Clarke | |
It happened on day X ... | 1965 | The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham | |
Pilgrimage to earth | 1982 | Pilgrimage To Earth | Robert Sheckley | review |
Star diaries | 1973 | Dzienniki gwiazdowe | Stanislaw Lem |
Film awards
- Golden Globe
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Oscar
- In 80 days around the world
New releases films
German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | Director | Remarks |
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Attack of the giant claw | 1996 | The Giant Claw | Fred F. Sears | |
The secret of the stone monster | 1970 | The Monolith Monsters | John Sherwood | |
The colossus | 1962 | The Amazing Colossal Man | Bert I. Gordon | |
The way to the stars | 1958 | Russian Дорога к звёздам , transcribed Doroga k zvezdam | Pavel Klushanzew | |
The beast from outer space | 1957 | 20 Million Miles to Earth | Nathan Juran | |
The incredible story of Mister C. | 1957 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | It was based on the novel The Strange Tale of Mr. C. by Richard Matheson |
Enemies out of nowhere | 1957 | Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Second part of the Quatermass trilogy |
Frankenstein's curse | 1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | |
Envoy of horror | 1957 | Not of This Earth | Roger Corman | |
The Night the World Exploded | The Night the World Exploded | Fred F. Sears | ||
The 27th day | 1958 | The 27th Day | William Asher | |
Exclusion zone alarm 7 | 1958 | The Monster That Challenged the World | Arnold Laven | |
The Astounding She monster | Ronald V. Ashcroft | |||
Attack of the Crab Monsters | Roger Corman | |||
Satan's eyes | 1960 | The Brain from Planet Arous | Nathan Juran | |
Beginning of the end | Bert I. Gordon | |||
The Cyclops | Bert I. Gordon | |||
The flight to hell | 1958 | The Land Unknown | Virgil W. Vogel | |
Frankenstein's death | 1960 | I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | Herbert L. Strock | |
Always at nightfall | 1959 | The vampires | Paul Landres | |
Invasion of the Saucer Men | Edward L. Cahn | |||
Kronos | Kurt Neumann | |||
The Man Who Turned to Stone | László Kardos | |||
The man without a body | 1959 | The Man Without a Body | Charles Saunders , W. Lee Wilder | |
Monster from Green Hell | Kenneth G. Crane | |||
The Night the World Exploded | Fred F. Sears | |||
She devil | Kurt Neumann | |||
SOS spaceship | 1958 | The Invisible Boy | Herman Hoffman | |
The invincible superman | 1961 | Japanese. ス ー パ ー ジ ャ イ ア ン ツ , Sūpā Jaiantsu | Teruo Ishii | |
jap. ス ー パ ー ・ ジ ャ イ ア ン ツ 怪 星 人 の 魔 城 , Sûpâ jaiantsu - Kaiseijin no majô | Teruo Ishii | |||
Death has black claws | 1962 | I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Gene Fowler Jr. | |
The Deadly Mantis | Nathan Juran | |||
jap. 透明 人間 と 蝿 男 , Tômei ningen to hae otoko | Mitsuo Murayama | |||
The Unearthly | Boris Petroff | |||
The Unknown Terror | Charles Marquis Warren | |||
Space beasts | 1960 | Japanese 地球 防衛 軍 , Chikyū Bōeigun | Ishirō Honda | |
Yeti, the snowman | 1958 | The Abominable Snowman | Val Guest | |
jap. 続 ス ー パ ー ・ ジ ャ イ ア ン ツ , Zoku sûpâ jaiantsu | Teruo Ishii |
New publications issue series
- Terra Utopian Novels , 1957–1968, 555 booklet novels
Conventions
- 15th Worldcon , March 6-9 September, London ; Chairman: Ted Carnell , Guest of Honor: John W. Campbell
Born
- Roger MacBride Allen
- John Barnes
- Stephen Baxter
- M. Shayne Bell
- Michael H. Buchholz († 2017)
- Candas Jane Dorsey
- Jean-Claude Dunyach
- John M. Ford († 2006)
- Celia S. Friedman
- Richard Kadrey
- John Meaney
- Christopher Moore
- Jeff Noon
- Frank Quilitzsch
- Frank Schätzing
- Michael A. Stackpole , known for many novels in the BattleTech universe
- Tad Williams
- Dave Wolverton , real name of David Farland
Died
- Ray Cummings (* 1887)
- Rudolf H. Daumann (* 1896)
- Alfred Döblin (* 1878)
- Karl Figdor (* 1881)
- Milo Hastings (* 1884)
- Karel Hloucha (* 1880)
- Niels Meyn (* 1891)
- Alexander Moritz Frey (* 1881)
- Laurenz Kiesgen (* 1869)
- Leo Perutz (* 1882)
- Emil Pirchan (* 1884)