1926 in science fiction

The year 1926 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• February 20 – Richard Matheson, American writer (died 2013)[1]
• March 19 – Jimmy Guieu, French writer (died 2000)[2]
• March 29 – Lino Aldani, Italian writer (died 2009)[3]
• April 1 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer (died 2011)[4]
• May 9 – John Middleton Murry, Jr., British writer (died 2002)[5]
• August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American writer (died 2014)[6]
• November 25 – Poul Anderson, American writer (died 2001)[7]

Events

• April – first publication of Amazing Stories, which ran until 1995 (and again from 1998–2000, 2004–2005 and 2012–present)[8]

Awards

The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.

Literary releases

Novels

• Metropolis, by Thea von Harbou[9]
• The Land of Mist, by Arthur Conan Doyle[10]
• (in Russian) The Lord of the World, by Alexander Belayev[11]

Short stories

• (in French) The Coming of the Ice, by Green Peyton Wertenbaker[12]

Audiovisual outputs

See also

• 1926 in science
• 1925 in science fiction
• 1927 in science fiction

References

1. Hawtree, Christopher (25 June 2013). "Richard Matheson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
2. "Authors : Guieu, Jimmy : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
3. "Authors : Aldani, Lino : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
4. Priest, Christopher (23 November 2011). "Anne McCaffrey obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
5. Priest, Christopher (3 May 2002). "Obituary: John Middleton Murry". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
6. Vitello, Paul (4 July 2014). "Frank M. Robinson Dies at 87; Author and Adviser to Harvey Milk". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
7. "Poul Anderson". The Independent. 3 August 2001. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
8. "Culture : Amazing Stories : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
9. "Media : von Harbou, Thea : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
10. The land of mist. 1926. OCLC 1106012.
11. Lemon, Alaina (2017). Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays. Univ of California Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780520967458.
12. Bleiler, Everett Franklin; Bleiler, Richard (1998). Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years : a Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines ... from 1926 Through 1936. Kent State University Press. p. 552. ISBN 9780873386043.