1929 in science fiction
# 1929 in science fiction

The year 1929 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

## Births and deaths

### Births

* January 28 : Parke Godwin, American writer, (died 2013)
* July 9 : Zheng Wenguang, Chinese writer, (died 2003)
* July 10 : George Clayton Johnson, American writer, (died 2015)
* August 27 : Ira Levin, American writer, (died 2007)
* October 1 : (in French) Demètre Ioakimidis, French writer and anthologist (died 2012)
* December 27 : Philippe Curval, French writer

## Events

* Creation of the American magazine Wonder Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback.

## Literary releases

### Novels

* (in French) Mond-Rak 1, by Otfrid von Hanstein.
* (in Russian) The Air Seller by Alexander Belayev.

### Short stories

* (in French) The last man, by Wallace West.
* (in French) The Killing Flash, by Hugo Gernsback.
* The Disintegration Machine, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

## Audiovisual outputs

### Movies

* Woman in the Moon, by Fritz Lang.
* High Treason, by Maurice Elvey.

## Awards

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

