1930 in science fiction

The year 1930 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• June 3 : Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (died 1999)^[1]
• November 15 : J. G. Ballard, British writer (died 2009)^[2]
• Donald Malcolm, Scottish writer (died 2013)^[3]

Deaths

Events

• Creation of the American magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science, now called Analog Science Fiction and Fact.^[4]

Literary releases

Novels

• Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon.^[5]
• Tarzan at the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.^[6]
• (in French) Utopolis, by (in German) Werner Illing.^[7]

Stories collections

Short stories

Movies

• Just Imagine directed by David Butler^[8]

Awards

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

See also

• 1930 in science