The year 1954 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
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Literary releases
Serialized novels
First editions
- Brain Wave by Poul Anderson, Earth's inhabitants become super-intelligent when the planet leaves a restrictive energy field.
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov, a detective and a robot partner solve a murder in a futuristic city.
- The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster, survivors adapt to a planet overrun by giant insects and plants.
- G.O.G. 666 by John Taine, Russian genetics experiments result in a being that is half ape, half brain.
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, the last human battles vampires in a post-apocalyptic world.
- A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn, follows a child prodigy protected by a Martian guardian from rival factions influencing human civilization.
- Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement, a human and an alien collaborate on a high-gravity planet to recover a lost probe.
- ' by Murray Leinster, the first interstellar flight is financed by making it into a television show.
- Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, a secret ship explores and reconnects declining interstellar colonies to prevent societal decay.
- The Stars Are Ours! by Andre Norton, survivors of an oppressive regime escape Earth to settle on a new planet.
- Starship Through Space by Lee Correy, tells the story of the building of the first starship and of its flight to Alpha Centauri.
- Three Thousand Years by Thomas Calvert McClary, scientists attempt to build a utopia after the earth has been placed in suspended animation for 3,000 years.
Short stories
Juveniles
Children's books
Movies
Awards
The Hugo Awards were not held this year.
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