1930 in science fiction
# 1930 in science fiction

The year 1930 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

## Births and deaths

### Births

* June 3 : Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (died 1999)
* November 15 : J. G. Ballard, British writer (died 2009)
* Donald Malcolm, Scottish writer (died 2013)

## Events

* Creation of the American magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science, now called Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

## Literary releases

### Novels

* Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon.
* Tarzan at the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
* (in French) Utopolis, by (in German) Werner Illing.

## Audiovisual outputs

### Movies

* Just Imagine directed by David Butler

## Awards

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

