1925 in science fiction
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{{Years in Science Fiction}}
The year 1925 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
= Births =
- January 22 : Katherine MacLean, American writer{{cite web |title=Authors : MacLean, Katherine : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/maclean_katherine |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |accessdate=31 March 2019}}
- February 14 : J. T. McIntosh, Scottish writer (died 2008){{cite web |title=Authors : McIntosh, J T : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mcintosh_j_t |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |accessdate=31 March 2019}}
- March 12 : Harry Harrison, American writer (died 2012){{cite web |title=Harry Harrison: Writer of sci-fi novels who created the popular |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harry-harrison-writer-of-sci-fi-novels-who-created-the-popular-anti-hero-the-stainless-steel-rat-8079415.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harry-harrison-writer-of-sci-fi-novels-who-created-the-popular-anti-hero-the-stainless-steel-rat-8079415.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |accessdate=31 March 2019 |language=en |date=25 August 2012}}{{cbignore}}
- June 9 :
- Bob Ottum, American writer (died 1986){{cite web |title=Authors : Ottum, Bob : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ottum_bob |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |accessdate=31 March 2019}}
- Keith Laumer, American writer (died 1993){{cite web |title=Authors : Laumer, Keith : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/laumer_keith |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |accessdate=31 March 2019}}
- August 18 : Brian Aldiss, British writer (died 2017){{cite web |last1=Priest |first1=Christopher |title=Brian Aldiss obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/21/brian-aldiss-obituary |website=The Guardian |accessdate=31 March 2019 |date=21 August 2017}}
- Arkady Strugatsky, Russian writer (died 1991){{cite book |last1=Goble |first1=Alan |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |date=2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=9783110951943 |page=447 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA447|language=en}}
= Deaths =
Events
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Awards
The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.
Literary releases
= Novels =
- {{in lang|fr}} Les Hommes frénétiques, by Ernest Pérochon{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=Pierre L. |title=Handbook of French Popular Culture |date=1991 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780313261213 |page=234 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QZ3gEzNUn4QC&pg=PA234|language=en}}
- {{in lang|fr}} Les Navigateurs de l'infini, by J.-H. Rosny aîné.{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Michael G. |title=Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight |date=2014 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=9780803286566 |page=383 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqivBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA383|language=en}}
- {{in lang|fr}} Out of the Silence, by Erle Cox (publication as book ; the novel had been published in a magazine, each week during six months, in 1919).{{cite web |title=Authors : Cox, Erle : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cox_erle |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |accessdate=31 March 2019}}
- {{in lang|ru}} Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov.{{cite web |last1=Armitstead |first1=Claire |authorlink=Claire Armitstead|title=Mikhail Bulgakov's The Heart of a Dog still bites |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/jan/04/mikhail-bulgakovs-the-heart-of-a-dog-still-bites |website=The Guardian |accessdate=31 March 2019 |date=4 January 2017}}
- {{in lang|ru}} The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov.{{cite journal |last1=Haber |first1=Edythe C. |title=The Social and Political Context of Bulgakov's "The Fatal Eggs" |journal=Slavic Review |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=497–510 |language=en |doi=10.2307/2500057|jstor=2500057 |year=1992 }}
- {{in lang|ru}} Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belayev.{{cite book |last1=Beumers |first1=Birgit |title=Directory of World Cinema: RUSSIA 2 |date=2015 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=9781783200108 |page=163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fL1DCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|language=en}}
= Stories collections =
= Comics =
Audiovisual outputs
= Movies =
- The Crazy Ray, by René Clair.{{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=Wheeler Winston |last2=Foster |first2=Gwendolyn Audrey |title=A Short History of Film, Third Edition |date=2018 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813595160 |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fF9TDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|language=en}}
- Luch Smerti, by Lev Kuleshov.{{cite web |title=LUCH SMERTI (1925) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6af56079 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331223325/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6af56079 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |website=BFI |accessdate=31 March 2019 |language=en}}