Science Fiction Year 1959
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | Science Fiction Year 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | ► | ►►
Other events
Events
- The first Fandom is held and officially established this year.
Literary prizes
Hugo Award
| Hugo Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| James Blish | A case of conscience | The case of conscience | Best novel |
| Clifford D. Simak | The Big Front Yard | The big front yard | Best story |
| Robert Bloch | That Hell-Bound Train | The train to hell | Best short story |
New publications literature
New releases films
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | Director | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All hell has broken loose on U-17 | 1963 | The Atomic Submarine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | |
| The last bank | 1959 | On the beach | Stanley Kramer | is based on the novel of the same name by Nevil Shute |
| Heaven is calling | 1960 | Russian Небо Зовёт , transcribed Nebo zovyot | Alexander Kosyr & Mikhail Karjukov | |
| The mouse that roared | 1959 | The Mouse That Roared | Jack Arnold | |
| The night of the sinister beasts | 1962 | The Killer Shrews | Ray Kellogg | |
| The journey to the centre of the earth | 1960 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Henry Levin | |
| The wasp woman | 1978 | The Wasp Woman | Roger Corman | |
| Plan 9 from space | Plan 9 from Outer Space | Ed Wood | ||
| Spacecraft MR-1 gives no answer | 1963 | The Angry Red Planet | Ib Melchior | |
| The Incredible Petrified World | Jerry Warren | |||
| The 4D man | 1961 | 4D Man | Irvin Yeaworth | |
| The 9-meter bride | 1995 | The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock | Sidney Miller | |
| Attack of the Giant Leeches | Bernard L. Kowalski | |||
| Have Rocket - Will Travel | David Lowell Rich | |||
| In the swamp of horror | 2016 | The Alligator People | Roy Del Ruth | |
| Rymdin Invasion in Lapland | Virgil W. Vogel | |||
| Invisible Invaders | Edward L. Cahn | |||
| War in space | 1960 | jap. 宇宙 大 戦 争 , Uchû daisensô | Ishirō Honda | |
| The Monster of Piedras Blancas | Irvin Berwick | |||
| The naked woman and Satan | - | - | Victor Trivas | |
| jap. 遊 星 王子 , Yûsei ôji | Eijirô Wakabayashi | |||
| Missile 510 | 1959 | First Man into Space | Robert Day | |
| The return of the fly | 1959 | Return of the Fly | Edward Bernds | |
| Teenage zombies | Jerry Warren | |||
| Teenagers from Outer Space | Tom Graeff | |||
| The Loch Ness Monster | 1961 | Behemoth the Sea Monster | Eugène Lourié , Douglas Hickox | |
| The world, the flesh and the devil | 1959 | The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall | |
| 続 ス ー パ ー ・ ジ ャ イ ア ン ツ 悪 魔 の 化身 , Zoku sûpâ jaiantsu - Akuma no keshin | Nagayoshi Akasaka | |||
| 続 ス ー パ ー ・ ジ ャ イ ア ン ツ 毒蛾 王国 , Zoku sûpâ jaiantsu - Dokuga Ôkoku | Nagayoshi Akasaka | |||
| Back from space | - | - | Georges Friedland | |
| The Manster - half man, half monster | 2013 | The Manster | George P. Breakston , Kenneth G. Crane |
New releases TV series
| German title | sent | Original title | Episodes | Seasons | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People in space | 1959-1960 | Men into Space | 38 | 1 | |
| Twilight Zone | 1959-1964; 1985-1987; 2002-2003 | The Twilight Zone | 156 | 5 | 75 in 3 seasons (1985-1989); 44 in one season (2002-2003) |
| 1959 | The Voodoo Factor | 6th | 1 | ||
| 1959 | World of Giants | 13 | 1 |
New publications magazines / fanzines / magazines
- SF Magazine , published to date
Conventions
17th Worldcon , 4th-7th September, Detroit ; Chair: Roger Sims & Fred Prophet , Guests of Honor: Poul Anderson (pro) & John Berry (fan)
Born
- Susanna Clarke
- Maurice Georges Dantec
- Andreas Eschbach
- Dave Freer
- Walter H. Hunt
- Hartmut Kasper (also writes under the pseudonym Wim Vandemaan)
- Karsten Kruschel
- Maureen F. McHugh
- Michael Nagula
- Lawrence M. Schoen
- Neal Stephenson
- Peter Watts
Died
- Edwin Balmer (* 1883)
- Stanislaus Bialkowski (* 1897)
- Emil Felden (* 1874)
- Otfrid von Hanstein (* 1869)
- Hans Henny Jahnn (* 1894)
- Alfred Kubin (* 1877)
- Ernst H. Richter (* 1900)
- Ewald Gerhard Seeliger (* 1877)
