Science Fiction Year 1961
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | Science Fiction Year 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | ► | ►►
Other events
Literary prizes
Hugo Award
| Hugo Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Walter M. Miller, Jr. | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Praise to Leibowitz | Best novel |
| Category not assigned | Best story | ||
| Poul Anderson | The Longest Voyage | The longest trip | Best short story |
New publications literature
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nightmares | Nightmares and Geezenstacks | Fredric Brown | ||
| Mother Hudson's little katsen | Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons | Paul Linebarger | ||
| Stranger in a strange world | 1970 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Solaris | 1972 | Solaris | Stanislaw Lem | |
| transfer | 1974 | Powrót z gwiazd | Stanislaw Lem |
Film awards
New releases films
New releases TV series
| German title | sent | Original title | Episodes | Seasons | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | A for Andromeda | 7th | 1 | ||
| Supercar | 1961–1962 | Supercar | 39 | 2 | |
| 1961 | The Escape of RD7 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 1961 | Way out | 14th | 1 |
New publications issue series
- Perry Rhodan , since September 8th (Issue 1: Company "Stardust" by KH Scheer ), 3000+ magazine novels
Conventions
- 19th Worldcon , 2-4. September, Seattle ; Chairman: Wally Weber , guest of honor: Robert A. Heinlein
Born
- Neal Asher
- Rainer Castor († 2015)
- Douglas Coupland , introduced the term Generation X with his novel of the same name
- Gordon Dahlquist
- Karen Duve
- Greg Egan
- Andreas Findig († 2018)
- Kij Johnson
- Achim Mehnert († 2018)
- Marten Munsonius
- Michel Pagel
- Hans-Josef Rautenberg
- Susan Schwartz (pseudonym of Uschi Zietsch )
- Will Self
- Bernard Werber
- Uschi Zietsch
Died
- Paul G. Ehrhardt (* 1889)
- Leonhard Frank (* 1882)
- Louis de Wohl (* 1903)
