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1927 In Science Fiction
The year 1927 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * June: Lynn Venable * July 19 : Richard E. Geis, American writer (died 2013) * July 25 : Pierre-Jean Brouillaud, French writer * August 9 : Daniel Keyes, American writer (died 2014) * October 3 : Donald R. Bensen, American writer and editor (died 1997) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' Radiopolis'', by Otfrid von Hanstein. * '' Dix mille lieues dans les airs'', by Otfrid von Hanstein. * ''The Garin Death Ray'' by Alexey N. Tolstoy. Stories collections Short stories * ''Night on the Galactic Railroad'', by Kenji Miyazawa. * ''The Colour Out of Space'', by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Metropolis'', by Fritz Lang. See also * 1927 in science * 1926 in science fiction * 1928 in science fiction References {{R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the technological singularity, singularity. Science fiction List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction, predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many #Subgenres, sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction By Year
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In Science Fiction
The year 1928 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * March 6 : William F. Nolan, American writer * June 8 : Kate Wilhelm, American writer (died 2018) * July 3 : Georges-Jean Arnaud, French writer (died 2020). * July 16 : Robert Sheckley, American writer, (died 2005) * July 28 : Angélica Gorodischer, Argentine writer. * August 11 : Alan E. Nourse, American writer (died 1992) * December 16 : Philip K. Dick, American writer (died 1982) Deaths Events Literary releases Novels * ''The Skylark of Space'', by Edward Elmer Smith. * ''Amphibian Man'', by Alexander Beliaev. * '' The Rocket to the Moon'', by Thea von Harbou. * '' Hans Hardts Mondfahrt'', by Otto Willi Gail. Stories collections Short stories * ''When the World Screamed'', by Arthur Conan Doyle. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. See also * 1928 in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in science fiction, 2013) * March 19 – Jimmy Guieu, French writer (died 2000) * March 29 – Lino Aldani, Italian writer (died 2009) * April 1 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer (died 2011) * May 9 – John Middleton Murry, Jr., British writer (died 2002) * August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American writer (died 2014 in science fiction, 2014) * November 25 – Poul Anderson, American writer (died 2001) Deaths Events * April – first publication of ''Amazing Stories'', which ran until 1995 (and again from 1998–2000, 2004–2005 and 2012–present) Awards The main Outline of science fiction#Science fiction awards, science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * ''Metropolis (novel), Metropolis'', by Thea von Harbou * ''The Land of Mist'', by Arthur C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Science
The year 1927 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and astrophysics * Edward Emerson Barnard's ''A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way'' is published posthumously. Botany * The Cholodny-Went model of tropism in emerging monocotyledon shoots is first proposed by Nikolai Cholodny of the University of Kyiv. Chemistry * Fritz London and Walter Heitler apply quantum mechanics to explain covalent bonding in the hydrogen molecule, which marks the birth of quantum chemistry. Environment *Carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and industry reach one billion tonnes per year. Genetics * American biologist Raymond Pearl publishes an influential attack on the basic assumptions of eugenics. Mathematics * Publication of the 2nd edition of ''Principia Mathematica'' by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy. Medicine * António Egas M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary ''Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. 63. One of the best-known ''émigrés'' from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic ''Metropolis'' (1927) and the influential '' M'' (1931), a film noir precursor. His 1929 film ''Woman in the Moon'' showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocket launch pad (a rocket standing upright against a tall building before launch having been slowly rolled into place) and the rocket-launch countdown clock. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolis (1927 Film)
''Metropolis'' is a 1927 German Expressionism, German expressionist Science fiction film, science-fiction Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's Metropolis (novel), 1925 novel of the same name. Intentionally written as a film treatment, treatment, it stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for UFA GmbH, Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about € million. Made in Germany during the Weimar Republic, Weimar period, ''Metropolis'' is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Colour Out Of Space
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul-tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one. Lovecraft began writing "The Colour Out of Space" immediately after finishing his previous short novel, ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature". Seeking to create a truly alien life form, he drew inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources. First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Hugo Gernsback's science fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Miyazawa
was a Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie, "Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji", in Daniel Boscaljon (ed.)''Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative'' James Clarke & Co./ /Lutterworth Press 2015. pp.96–118, p.96. Some of his major works include '' Night on the Galactic Railroad'', ''Kaze no Matasaburō'', ''Gauche the Cellist'', and '' The Night of Taneyamagahara''. Miyazawa converted to Nichiren Buddhism after reading the Lotus Sutra, and joined the Kokuchūkai, a Nichiren Buddhist organization. His religious and social beliefs created a rift between him and his wealthy family, especially his father, though after his death his family eventually followed him in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night On The Galactic Railroad
, sometimes translated as ''Milky Way Railroad'', ''Night Train to the Stars'' or ''Fantasy Railroad in the Stars'', is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927. The nine-chapter novel was posthumously published in 1934 as part of published by . Four versions are known to be in existence, with the last one being the most famous among Japanese readers. The novel was adapted as a 1985 anime film of the same title as well as various stage musicals and plays. Plot summary Giovanni is a lonely boy, whose father is away on a long fishing trip, while his mother is ill at home. As a result, the young Giovanni must undertake paid jobs before and after school, delivering papers and setting type at the printers, in order to provide food for his poor family. These adult responsibilities leave him with no time to study or socialize, and he is ridiculed by his classmates. Apart from Giovanni's mother and sister, the only person who really cares for him is his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey N
Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius. Alexey may also be romanized as ''Aleksei'', ''Aleksey'', ''Alexej'', ''Aleksej'', etc. It has been commonly westernized as Alexis. Similar Ukrainian and Belarusian names are romanized as Oleksii (Олексій) and Aliaksiej (Аляксей), respectively. The Russian Orthodox Church uses the Old Church Slavonic version, Alexiy (Алексiй, or Алексий in modern spelling), for its Saints and hierarchs (most notably, this is the form used for Patriarchs Alexius I and Alexius II). The common hypocoristic is Alyosha () or simply Lyosha (). These may be further transformed into Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Lyoshka, Lyoha, Lyoshenka (, respectively), sometimes rendered as Alesha/Aleshenka in English. The form Alyosha may b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
