1929 in science fiction

The year 1929 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• January 28 : Parke Godwin, American writer, (died 2013)
• July 9 : Zheng Wenguang, Chinese writer, (died 2003)
• July 10 : George Clayton Johnson, American writer, (died 2015)
• August 27 : Ira Levin, American writer, (died 2007)
• October 1 : , French writer and anthologist, (died 2012)
• October 21: Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, (died 2018)
• December 27 : Philippe Curval, French writer, (died 2023)

Deaths

Events

• Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.

Literary releases

Novels

• ', by Otfrid von Hanstein.
• The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.

• ', by Wallace West.
• ', by Hugo Gernsback.
• The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.