Science Fiction Year 1958
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | Science Fiction Year 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | ► | ►►
Other events
Literary prizes
Hugo Award
| Hugo Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Fritz Leiber | The big time | A great time too: a great time | Best novel |
| Category not assigned | Best story | ||
| Avram Davidson | Or All the Seas with Oysters | Or all seas full of oysters | Best short story |
New publications literature
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andromeda Nebula | 1958 | Туманность Андромеды | Ivan Yefremov | |
| The ugly American | The Ugly American |
Eugene Burdick & William Lederer |
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| The other side of the sky | 1961 | The Other Side of the Sky | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| Lebensgeister GmbH | 1982 | Immortality, Inc. | Robert Sheckley | review |
| Savior of the planet | 1962 | The Planet Savers | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
New releases films
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | Director | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack by the 20-meter woman | Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan Juran | ||
| La morte viene dallo spazio | Paolo Heusch | is considered the first science fiction film in Italian film history | ||
| Blob - horror without a name | 1960 | The blob | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | |
| The horror creeps through Tokyo | 1959 | jap. 美女 と 液体 人間 , Bijo to Ekitai Ningen | Ishirō Honda | |
| The horror creeps through the night | 1960 | Monster on the campus | Jack Arnold | |
| The invention of perdition | 1959 | Vynález zkázy | Karel Zeman | |
| The fly | 1958 | The Fly | Kurt Neumann | is based on a short story by George Langelaan |
| The revenge of the black spider | 1960 | Earth vs. the spider | Bert I. Gordon | |
| Frankenstein's revenge | 1958 | The Revenge of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | |
| I Married a Monster from Outer Space | Gene Fowler Junior | |||
| Monster without a face | 1959 | Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | |
| In the clutches of the giant | 1961 | Giant from the Unknown | Richard E. Cunha | |
| Attack of the Puppet People | Bert I. Gordon | |||
| The Aztec mummy versus the human robot | 2017 | La momia azteca versus el robot humano | Rafael Portillo | |
| Horror beast | 1962 | Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | |
| The Brain Eaters | Bruno VeSota | |||
| The Flame Barrier | Paul Landres | |||
| The scary one | 1959 | Frankenstein's daughter | Richard E. Cunha | |
| Giant of horror | 1960 | War of the Colossal Beast | Bert I. Gordon | |
| The horror came at midnight | 1962 | Night of the Blood Beast | Bernard L. Kowalski | |
| El hombre que logró ser invisible | Alfredo B. Crevenna | |||
| The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambov | 1959 | Frankenstein 1970 | Howard W. Koch | |
| In the claws of Venus | 1961 | Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | |||
| The Space Children | Jack Arnold | |||
| The colossus of New York | 1959 | The Colossus of New York | Eugène Lourié | |
| With 1000 volts to death | 1959 | Escapement | Montgomery Tully | |
| Planet of dead souls | 1963 | War of the satellites | Roger Corman | |
| Space rocket X 7 | 1960 | Space Master X-7 | Edward Bernds | |
| The red phone ... alarm! | 1961 | The Lost Missile | William Berke | |
| Satan's satellite | 2011 | Satan's satellites | Fred C. Brannon | |
| She demons | Richard E. Cunha | |||
| jap. ス ー パ ー ・ ジ ャ イ ア ン ツ 宇宙 怪人 出現 , Sûpâ jaiantsu - Uchû kaijin shutsugen | Akira Mitsuwa | |||
| Teenage Caveman | Roger Corman | |||
| Terror from the Year 5000 | Robert J. Gurney Jr. | |||
| The Monteville Devil Cloud | 1959 | The Trollenberg Terror | Quentin Lawrence | |
| Varan - The monster from prehistoric times | 2011 | Japanese 大 怪 獣 バ ラ ン , Daikaijū Baran | Ishirō Honda | |
| From the earth to the moon | From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | ||
| The Hideous Sun Demon | Tom Boutross , Robert Clarke |
New releases TV series
| German title | sent | Original title | Episodes | Seasons | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Quatermass and the Pit | 6th | 1 | ||
| The invisible | 1958-1960 | The Invisible Man | 27 | 2 |
Conventions
- 16th Worldcon , August 29th - September 1st, South Gate , Chairman: Anna S. Moffatt , Guest of Honor: Richard Matheson
Born
- Marliese Arold
- Bradley Denton
- Kate Elliott
- Irene Fleiss († 2008)
- Susanne Gerdom
- Andrä Martyna († 2011)
- Bruce Holland Rogers
- George Saunders
- Allen Steele
- Amy Thomson
Died
- Hans Bodenstedt (* 1887)
- E. Everett Evans (* 1893)
- Louis Golding (* 1895)
- Cyril M. Kornbluth (* 1923)
- Henry Kuttner (* 1915)
- Ernst Schertel (* 1884)