Science fiction year 1960
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | Science Fiction Year 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | ► | ►►
Other events
Literary prizes
Hugo Award
Hugo Award | |||
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author | Original title | German edition | category |
Robert A. Heinlein | Starship Troopers | Star warriors too: Starship Troopers | Best novel |
Category not assigned | Best story | ||
Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | Flowers for Algernon | Best short story |
New publications literature
German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
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The sons of space | 1965 | Seed of Light | Edmund Cooper | |
After zero hour | 1966 | Dark December | Alfred Coppel | |
When time stood still | 1970 | The Day of Timestop | Philip José Farmer | |
flesh | 1970 | Flesh | Philip José Farmer | |
The woman who sailed in the soul | The Lady Who Sailed the Soul | Paul Linebarger | Short story under the pseudonym: Cordwainer Smith, part of the Instrumentality of Mankind cycle | |
Brothers under a strange sun | 1964 | Unearthly neighbors | Chad Oliver |
Film awards
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Golden Globe
- The last bank - Ernest Gold for the best film music
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British Academy Film Award / United Nations Award
- The last bank
New releases films
German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | Director | Remarks |
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Conquistador de la luna | Rogelio A. González | |||
The village of the damned | 1961 | Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | is based on the novel Cuckoo Children by John Wyndham |
The time machine | 1960 | The Time Machine | George Pal | is based on the novel of the same name by HG Wells |
The flying timpanist | 1961 | The Absent-Minded Professor | Robert Stevenson | |
The silent star | - | - | Kurt Maetzig | based on Stanisław Lem's first novel The Astronauts |
La nave de los monstruos | Rogelio A. González | Parody of Devil Girl from Mars | ||
Sunken world | 1960 | The Lost World | Irwin Allen | based on The Forgotten World by Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Amazing Transparent Man | Edgar G. Ulmer | |||
Visit to a small planet | 1960 | Visit to a Small Planet | Norman Taurog | |
Beyond the Time Barrier | Edgar G. Ulmer | |||
The Leech Woman | Edward yours | |||
Seddok - The cheater with the devil's claws | 1963 | Seddok, l'erede di Satana | Anton Giulio Majano | |
Space Men | Antonio Margheriti |
New releases TV series
German title | sent | Original title | Episodes | Seasons | Remarks |
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Torchy the Battery Boy | 1960-1961 | Torchy the Battery Boy | 52 | 2 |
Conventions
- 18th Worldcon , 3rd – 5th September, Pittsburgh ; Chairman: Dirce Archer , Guest of Honor: James Blish
Born
- Eric Brown
- Adam-Troy Castro
- Brenda Cooper
- Élise Fontenaille-N'Diaye
- Neil Gaiman
- Charles E. Gannon
- Nicola Griffith
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Colin Harvey († 2011)
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Harald Jacobsen
- Kathe Koja
- Ian McDonald
- Andreas Melzer
- Linda Nagata
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Robert J. Sawyer
- DW Schmitt
- Christian Black
- Melissa Scott
- Manfred Weinland
Died
- John Russell Fearn (* 1908)
- Heinz Gartmann (* 1917)
- John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell ) (* 1883)
- Werner Wehr (pseudonym of Heinz Gartmann ) (* 1917)