Science Fiction Year 1990
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | Science Fiction Year 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | ► | ►►
Other events
Literary prizes
Arthur C. Clarke Award
| Arthur C. Clarke Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden | A garden for children | |
British Science Fiction Association Award
| British Science Fiction Association Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Colin Greenland | Take Back Plenty | Best novel | |
| Kim Newman | The Original Dr. Shade | Best short story | |
Campbell Award
| Campbell Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden | A garden for children | Best novel |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Best new author | ||
German Science Fiction Award
| German Science Fiction Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Maria J. Pfannholz | The survivors | Best novel | |
| Gert Prokop | Kasperle is back! | Best short story | |
Hugo Award
| Hugo Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion | Best novel |
| Lois McMaster Bujold | The Mountains of Mourning | The mountains of sorrow | Best short novel |
| Robert Silverberg | Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another | First appearance: soldier. Then another | Best story |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | Boobs | Pugs | Best short story |
Kurd Laßwitz Prize
| Kurd Laßwitz Prize | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Wolfgang Jeschke | Midas | Best novel | |
| Werner Zillig | Seventeen sentences | Best story | |
| Gisbert Haefs | Wanderlust | Best short story | |
| Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime | Life in war | Best foreign plant |
| Irene Holicki | Best translator | ||
| Dieter Rottermund | Best graphic artist | ||
| Dieter Hasselblatt , director: Jürgen Dluzniewski | Ichthanthropos project failed | Best radio play | |
| Category was not assigned | Best movie | ||
| Walter Froneberg (Lord Mayor of the City of Wetzlar ) | for his support of the Fantastic Library Wetzlar | Special Price | |
Locus Award
| Locus Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion | Best SF novel |
| Allen Steele | Orbital Decay | Station of the last heroes | Best first novel |
| Lucius Shepard | The Father of Stones | Best short novel | |
| Orson Scott Card | Dogwalker | Best story | |
| Orson Scott Card | Lost Boys | Best short story | |
| Pat Cadigan | Patterns | Best collection | |
| Gardner Dozois | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection | Best anthology | |
Nebula Award
| Nebula Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea | Tehanu | Best novel |
| Joe Haldeman | The Hemingway Hoax | The Hemingway hoax | Best short novel |
| Ted Chiang | Tower of Babylon | The Tower of Babel | Best story |
| Terry Bisson | Bears Discover Fire | The bears discover the fire | Best short story |
Philip K. Dick Award
| Philip K. Dick Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Pat Murphy | Points of Departure | ||
Prometheus Award
| Prometheus Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Victor Koman | Solomon's Knife | Best novel | |
| Francis Paul Wilson | The Healer | The healer | Hall of Fame |
New publications literature
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encounters on the Möbius strip | 1993 | Take Back Plenty | Colin Greenland | review |
| Better than life | 1993 | Better than Life | Grant Naylor | review |
| The Flight of Pegasus | 1999 | Pegasus in Flight | Anne McCaffrey | review |
| The metrognom | 1998 | The Metrognome and Other Stories | Alan Dean Foster | review |
| The fall of Hyperion | 1993 | The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons | German edition first as The End of Hyperion published |
| The difference machine | 1992 | The Difference Engine |
William Gibson & Bruce Sterling |
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| Mr. Fisk's strange business | 1994 | Hard sell | Piers Anthony | review |
| DinoPark | 1991 | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | provided the template for Jurassic Park |
| nightfall | Nightfall |
Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg |
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| A gripping egg | 1993 | Griffin's egg | Michael Swanwick | review |
| Use of weapons | 1992 | Use of weapons | Iain Banks | |
| Langoliers | 1991 | Four past midnight | Stephen King | The original contains two further novellas, which were published separately in German under the title Nachts |
| Place of horror | 1992 | The Bad Place | Dean Koontz | |
| Rowan | 1997 | The Rowan | Anne McCaffrey | review |
| Sassinak | 2001 | Sassinak | Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon | review |
| 1990 | The World at the End of Time | Frederik Pohl |
Film awards
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British Academy Film Award
- Back to the Future II - Best Visual Effects
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Golden Raspberry
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Star Trek V: On the Edge of the Universe
- Worst Film Harve Bennett , Worst Director William Shatner , Worst Actor William Shatner
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Star Trek V: On the Edge of the Universe
- Oscar
New releases films
New releases TV series
| German title | sent | Original title | Episodes | Seasons | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-1991 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | 21st | 2 | ||
| Captain Planet | 1990-1996 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | 113 | 6th | |
| The madhouse | 1990-1993 | Maniac Mansion | 66 | 3 | |
| The power of the magic stone | 1990-1991 | jap. ふ し ぎ の 海 の ナ デ ィ ア , Fushigi no Umi no Nadia | 40 | 2 | |
| Flash - The Red Lightning | 1990-1991 | The Flash | 22nd | 1 | |
| Jupiter Moon | 1990-1996 | Jupiter Moon | 150 | 1 | |
| 1990-1991 | Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | 21st | 2 | ||
| 1990-1992 | Super force | 48 | 2 | ||
| Tokkei Winspector | 1990 | Japanese. 特警 ウ イ ン ス ペ ク タ ー , Tokkei Uinsupekutā | 49 | 1 | |
| That thing from the swamp | 1990-1991 | Swamp thing | 72 | 3 | |
| Teen aliens | 1990-1991 | They came from Outer Space | 21st | 1 |
New releases computer games
| German title | Original title | Studio | genre | platform | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turrican | Turrican | Rainbow Arts | Shoot 'em up | Commodore 64 , Amiga , Atari ST , Schneider CPC , ZX Spectrum , Sega Genesis , PC-Engine , TurboGrafx-16 , Game Boy | |
| Mega Man 3 | Capcom | Action game , jump 'n' run | Arcade , NES | ||
| Aliens | Konami | Shoot 'em up | Arcade | ||
| Galaxian 3 | Galaxian 3 | Namco | Shoot 'em up | Arcade | |
| Crystalis | SNK Corporation | Action adventure , action RPG | NES | ||
| Alien Storm | Alien Storm | Sega | Beat 'em up , shoot' em up | Arcade, Sega Genesis, SMS , Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Schneider CPC | |
| Mad Max | Mad Max | Mindscape | Action game | NES | |
| Star Control | Star Control | Toys for Bob | Shoot 'em up | MS-DOS , Amiga, C64, Sega Mega Drive , Schneider CPC, ZX Spectrum | |
| Thunder Force III | Thunder Force III | Technosoft | Shoot 'em up | Sega Mega Drive, Arcade, SNES | |
| Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight | Japanese. ス ト リ ー ト フ ァ イ タ ー , Nī Maru Ichi Maru: Sutorīto Faitā | Capcom | Jump 'n' run, shoot 'em up | NES | |
| Total recall | Total recall | Ocean Software , Interplay Entertainment | Action game, jump 'n' run | Schneider CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, NES | |
| Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man | KID | Action game, jump 'n' run | NES | ||
| Out zone | Toaplan | Shoot 'em up | Arcade | ||
| Back to the Future Part II & III | Beam software | Action game, platforming game, puzzle video games | NES | ||
| Solar Jetman | Solar Jetman | Zippo Games , Rare | Shoot 'em up | NES | |
| Space gun | Japanese. ス ペ ー ス ガ ン , Supēsu Gan | Taito | Shoot 'em up | Arcade | |
| Wing Commander | Wing Commander | Origin Systems | Space flight simulation , combat simulation | MS-DOS, Mac OS , Amiga, CD³² , FM Towns , Sega Mega-CD , SNES, 3DO , PSP | |
| The Adventures of Rad Gravity | Interplay Productions | Jump 'n' run | NES | ||
| SCAT: Special Cybernetic Attack Team | Natsume | Shoot 'em up | NES | ||
| Circuit's Edge | Circuit's Edge | Westwood Studios | Interactive fiction , RPG | MS-DOS | based on George Alec Effinger's novel When Gravity Fails |
| Gun Frontier | Taito | Shoot 'em up | Arcade, Sega Saturn , PlayStation 2 , Xbox , Microsoft Windows | ||
| Final Fantasy III | Japanese フ ァ イ ナ ル フ ァ ン タ ジ ー III , Fainaru Fantajī Surī | Square | RPG | NES | |
| BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge | BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge | Westwood Associates | Real time strategy game | MS-DOS | |
| StarTropics | StarTropics | Nintendo IRD | Action adventure | NES | |
| MUSHA | MUSHA | Compile | Mech simulation | Sega Mega Drive | |
| RoboCop 2 | RoboCop 2 | Special FX | Shoot 'em up , jump' n 'run | Amiga, Schneider CPC , Arcade , Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy , NES, ZX Spectrum |
New publications magazines / fanzines / magazines
- Alien Contact , 1990-2005
Conventions
- 13. Eurocon , Faience
- 48th Worldcon , August 23-27 , The Hague ; Chairman: Kees van Toorn, guests of honor: Harry Harrison (pro) & Wolfgang Jeschke (pro) & Joe Haldeman (pro) & Andrew Porter (fan)
Born
Died
- Irma Chilton (* 1930)
- Erich Dolezal (* 1902)
- Peter Dubina (* 1940)
- Lawrence Durrell (born 1912)
- Rainer Fuhrmann (* 1940)
- Sewer Gansowski (* 1918)
- Günther Krupkat (* 1905)
- Christian Meyer-Oldenburg (* 1936)
- Edmund H. North (* 1911)
- Wilmar H. Shiras (* 1908)
- Irving Wallace (born 1916)
- Donald A. Wollheim (* 1914)
