Science fiction year 2019
event
- Sorry to Bother You was named to the National Board of Review 's 2018 list of “Top 10 Independent Films”
Literary prizes
Arthur C. Clarke Award
| Arthur C. Clarke Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Tade Thompson | Rosewater | Rosewater | |
British Science Fiction Association Award
| British Science Fiction Association Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Gareth L. Powell | Embers of War | Best novel | |
| Ian McDonald | Time what | Best short story | |
Campbell Award
| Campbell Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Sam J. Miller | Blackfish City | Best novel | |
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
| Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| William Gibson | |||
German Science Fiction Award
| German Science Fiction Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | title | category | |
| Tom Hillenbrand | Hologrammatica | Best novel | |
| Thorsten Küper | Confinement | Best short story | |
Hugo Award
| Hugo Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Best novel | |
| Martha Wells | Artificial condition | Best short novel | |
| Zen Cho | If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again | Best story | |
| Alix E. Harrow | A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies | Best short story | |
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
| James Tiptree, Jr. Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Gabriela Damián Miravete | They Will Dream in the Garden | ||
Kurd Laßwitz Prize
| Kurd Laßwitz Prize | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Andreas Eschbach | NSA - National Security Agency | - | Best novel |
| Thorsten Küper | Confinement | Best short story / narrative | |
| Jasper Fforde | Early riser | Ice world | Best foreign plant |
| Jacob Schmidt | New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson | New York 2140 | Best translator |
| Michael Marrak | The journey to the center of time | - | Best graphic artist |
| Anne Kruger | Supermarket | - | Best radio play |
| Michael K. Iwoleit , Ronald M. Hahn and Helmuth W. Mommers for 16 years Nova as well as Frank Hebben , Michael Haitel and Olaf G. Hilscher for the continuation | Special Price | ||
Locus Award
| Locus Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Best SF novel | |
| Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | Best youth novel | |
| Rebecca Roanhorse | Trail of Lightning | Best first novel | |
| Martha Wells | Artificial condition | Best short novel | |
| Brooke Bolander | The Only Harmless Great Thing | Best story | |
| Phenderson Djèlí Clark | The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington | Best short story | |
| NK Jemisin | How Long 'til Black Future Month? | Best collection | |
| Gardner Dozois | The Book of Magic | Best anthology | |
Nebula Award
| Nebula Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Best novel | |
| Aliette de Bodard | The Tea Master and the Detective | Best short novel | |
| Brooke Bolander | The Only Harmless Great Thing | Best story | |
| Phenderson Djèlí Clark | The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington | Best short story | |
Philip K. Dick Award
| Philip K. Dick Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards | ||
Prometheus Award
| Prometheus Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Travis Corcoran | Causes of Separation | Best novel | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Harrison Bergeron | Hall of Fame | |
New publications literature
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency | William Gibson | |||
| Ancestral Night | Elizabeth Bear | |||
| The City in the Middle of the Night | Charlie Jane Anders | |||
| Dark Age | Pierce Brown | |||
| Exhalation: Stories | Ted Chiang | |||
| The Future of Another Timeline | Annalee Newitz | |||
| The Light Brigade | Cameron Hurley | |||
| Motherland | Lauren Beukes | |||
| Perihelion buzzer | Greg Egan | |||
| Permafrost | Alastair Reynolds | |||
| Tiamat's wrath | 2020 | Tiamat's Wrath | James SA Corey | |
| The witnesses | 2019 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | |
| Silent Sun | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| Proxima Dying | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| Proxima Dreaming | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| Helium-3 | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| Clouds of Venus | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| The downfall of the universe | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| The Triton disaster | - | - | Brandon Q. Morris | |
| Gynoid | - | - | Tobias Bachmann | |
| GRM. Brainfuck | - | - | Sibylle Berg | |
| eclipse | - | - | Andreas Brandhorst | |
| The whisper | - | - | Andreas Brandhorst | |
| The network of stars | - | - | Andreas Brandhorst | |
| The night was pale, the lights blinked | - | - | Emma Braslavsky | |
| Neptunation | - | - | Dietmar Dath | |
| Greed - How Far Would You Go? | - | - | Marc Elsberg | |
| Apocalypse Pallantau | - | - | Arno Endler | |
| Perry Rhodan - The greatest adventure | - | - | Andreas Eschbach | |
| Miami punk | - | - | Juan S. Guse | |
| Becoming Elektra: they determine who you are | - | - | Christian trade | |
| The purest | - | - | Thore D. Hansen | |
| The Moloch | - | - | Michael K. Iwoleit | |
| Derolia (The Adventures of Samuel Kors 3) | - | - | Axel Kruse | |
| The garden of the uroborus | - | - | Michael Marrak | |
| The last crew of the wandering star | - | - | Hans-Arthur Marsiske | |
| Evil Miss Universe | - | - | Tobias O. Meissner | |
| The cube | - | - | Bijan Moini | |
| At the abyss of infinity | - | - | Bernd Perplies | |
| The hare's face | - | - | PM | |
|
One small step
(Colony Worlds 01) |
2019 | - | Galax Acheronian | |
|
A big step
(Colony Worlds 02) |
2019 | - | Galax Acheronian | |
|
A stranger among millions
(Colony Worlds 03) |
2019 | - | Galax Acheronian | |
| The city of symbiotes | - | - | James A. Sullivan | |
| The dark curtain | - | - | Joshua Tree | |
| The origin of the world | - | - | Ulrich Tukur | |
| Shape Me | - | - | Melanie Vogltanz | |
| Wasteland | - | - | Judith C. Vogt & Christian Vogt | |
| Infiltrated | - | - | Vincent Voss | |
| When we reach for the stars | - | - | Kathleen way | |
| Delta v | 2019 | Delta v | Daniel Suarez | |
| Cruel harvest | - | - | Stefan Burban | |
| Neon Birds | - | - | Marie Graßhoff | |
| The second sleep | 2019 | The Second Sleep | Robert Harris | |
| Deceptive peace | - | - | Stefan Burban |
New releases films
New releases for television and web series
| German title | sent | Original title | Episodes | Seasons | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The rook | 2019 | The rook | 8th | 1 |
New releases computer games
| German title | Original title | Studio | genre | platform | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthem | Anthem | BioWare | Action game | PlayStation 4 , Windows , Xbox One | |
| Apex Legends | Apex Legends | Respawn entertainment | Battle Royale , first person shooter | Windows, Xbox One, Playstation 4 | |
| Biomutant | Biomutant | Experiment 101 | Action RPG | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Crackdown 3 | Crackdown 3 | Sumo digital | Action game | Windows, Xbox One | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | Cyberpunk 2077 | CD project RED | Action RPG | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Gears 5 | Gears 5 | The Coalition | Third person shooter | Windows, Xbox One | |
| Halo: Infinite | 343 Industries | ||||
| The Surge 2 | Deck13 | ||||
| Doom Eternal | Doom Eternal | id software | Ego shooter | Windows, Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| The Occupation | The Occupation | White paper games | Stealth computer game | PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows | |
| Days Gone | Days Gone | YOU Bend Studio | Action adventure | PlayStation 4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | Far Cry New Dawn | Ubisoft Montreal | Ego shooter | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Metro Exodus | Metro Exodus | 4A Games | Ego shooter | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Rage 2 | Rage 2 | Avalanche Studios | Ego shooter | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Wasteland 3 | Wasteland 3 | inXile Entertainment | RPG | Linux, Mac OS, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | |
| Control | Control | Remedy Entertainment | Third person shooter | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Dual Universe | Dual Universe | Novaquark | MMORPG , trade & combat simulation | Windows | |
| Outer Wilds | Outer Wilds | Mobius Digital | Open world game | Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Xbox One | |
| The Outer Worlds | The Outer Worlds | Obsidian Entertainment | RPG | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | |
| Tom Clancy's The Division 2 | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 | Massive entertainment | Third person shooter | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
Died
- Janet Asimov (born 1926)
- Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo (* 1934)
- Terrance Dicks (* 1935)
- Carol Emshwiller (* 1921)
- Dorothy Fontana (DC Fontana) (* 1939)
- Alasdair Gray (* 1934)
- Barry Hughart (born 1934)
- Michail Krausnick (* 1943)
- Vonda N. McIntyre (born 1948)
- Katherine MacLean (born 1925)
- Taku Mayumura (* 1934)
- Gene Wolfe (* 1931)
- Herman Wouk (born 1915)
