1938 in science fiction

The year 1938 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• Jean Giraud, aka Moebius (d. 2012)
• Michael Kurland
• Justin Leiber (d. 2016)
• Larry Niven. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970)
• Paul van Herck (d. 1989)
• Ted White
• M. K. Wren (d. 2016)
• Janusz A. Zajdel (d. 1985)

Deaths

• Karel Čapek (b. 1890)
• Frigyes Karinthy (b. 1887)

Events

• October 30 - The War of the Worlds, radio drama directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.

Literary releases

Novels

• ' by Robert A. Heinlein
• Galactic Patrol by E. E. Smith
• Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis