1950 in science fiction

The year 1950 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• William Barton
• James Blaylock
• David Brin
• Paul Cook
• Ian Douglas (pseudonym of William H. Keith, Jr.)
• William R. Forstchen
• Karen Joy Fowler
• Martin Grzimek
• K. W. Jeter
• John Kessel
• Stephen R. Lawhead
• Kirk Mitchell
• Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. (d. 2012)
• Mary Doria Russell
• Lewis Shiner
• Karlheinz Steinmüller
• Michael Swanwick
• Michael Szameit (d. 2014)
• Steve Rasnic Tem

Deaths

• Edgar Rice Burroughs (b. 1875)
• Erle Cox (b. 1873)
• George Orwell (b. 1903)
• Olaf Stapledon (b. 1886)

Literary releases

Novels

• Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak
• The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
• Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (juvenile)
• First Lensman by E. E. "Doc" Smith, received the Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2001
• The House That Stood Still by A. E. van Vogt
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury^{[nb 1]}
• Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
• Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril

Short stories

• The Dying Earth by Jack Vance (collection)
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (collection)
• "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (novella) by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury^{[nb 1]}

Movies

Awards

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

See also

• 1950 in science

Notes