1959 in science fiction

The year 1959 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• Steve Alten
• Ayerdhal (d. 2015)
• Maurice Georges Dantec (d. 2016)
• Stephen Dedman
• Steven Erikson
• Andreas Eschbach
• Boban Knežević
• Maureen F. McHugh
• Lawrence M. Schoen
• Martha Soukup
• Neal Stephenson

Deaths

• Edwin Balmer (b. 1883)
• Otfrid von Hanstein (b. 1869)

Literary releases

First editions

• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• The Beast Master by Andre Norton
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Canopy of Time by Brian Aldiss
• Dodkin's Job by Jack Vance
• Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Duplicated Man by James Blish and Robert Lowndes.
• Echo in the Skull by John Brunner
• The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson
• Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
• Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
• Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell
• Ossian's Ride by Fred Hoyle
• The Outward Urge by John Wyndham
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
• Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
• The War Against the Rull by A. E. van Vogt
• Wolfbane by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• The World Swappers by John Brunner

Short stories

• "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Juveniles

• Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton
• The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova
• Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Movies

Awards

• A Case of Conscience by James Blish won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

See also

• 1959 in science

Notes

References