1954 in science fiction
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The year 1954 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
Births
- Iain M. Banks (d. 2013)
- Marek Baraniecki
- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
- Paul Di Filippo
- Colin Greenland
- Marek Huberath
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Michael P. Kube-McDowell
- Shariann Lewitt
- James D. Macdonald
- Ken MacLeod
- Victor Milán (d. 2018)
- John J. Miller (d. 2022)
- Melanie Rawn
- Joel Rosenberg (d. 2011)
- Richard Paul Russo
- Bruce Sterling
- Marc Stiegler
- J. Michael Straczynski
- Mark W. Tiedemann
- James Van Pelt
- Lawrence Watt-Evans
- David Wingrove
Deaths
- Alexander Abasheli (b. 1884)
- Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (b. 1871)
Literary releases
Novels
- Brain Wave by Poul Anderson
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
- The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
- The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Stars Are Ours! by Andre Norton
- The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron (children's book)
Short stories
- "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin
- "The Father-thing" by Philip K. Dick
- "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester
Movies
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas | United States | Adventure Drama Family Fantasy [nb 1] |
Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno | United States | Horror |
Devil Girl from Mars | David MacDonald | Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri | United Kingdom | Horror |
Godzilla (a.k.a Gojira) | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Takashi Shimura | Japan | Horror Kaijū |
Gog | Ivan Tors | Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama Horror Romance Thriller |
Killers from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay, Frank Gerstle | United States | Horror Mystery |
Monster from The Ocean Floor | Wyott Ordung | Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner | United States | Horror |
Riders to the Stars | Richard Carlson | William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama |
The Rocket Man | Oscar Rudolph | Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne Francis, John Agar, George Winslow | United States | Comedy Famille |
The Snow Creature | W. Lee Wilder | William Phipps | United States | Horror |
Stranger From Venus | Burt Balaban | Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond | United States | [1] |
Target Earth | Sherman A. Rose | Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey | United States | Horror |
Them! | Gordon Douglas | James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness | United States | Horror |
Tobor the Great | Lee Sholem | Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin | United States | Adventure Family |
Awards
The Hugo Awards were not held this year.
See also
Notes
- ^ Winner of Academy Awards for Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in 1954.
References
- ^ Shearer, Stephen Michael (2006). Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life. University Press of Kentucky. p. 171–172. ISBN 0-8131-2391-7.