The year 1923 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
editBirths
edit- January 12: Pierre Versins, American writer (died 2001)[1]
- April 17: Lloyd Biggle, Jr., American writer (died 2002)[2]
- April 23: Avram Davidson, American writer (died 1993)[3]
- July 12: James E. Gunn, American writer[4]
- July 23: Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (died 1958)[5]
- August 20: Henri Bessière, French writer (died 2011)[6]
- November 1: Gordon R. Dickson, American writer (died 2001)[7]
Deaths
editEvents
edit- March: first publication of Weird Tales, American pulp magazine.[8]
Awards
editThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.
Literary releases
editNovels
edit- Aelita, by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.[9]
- (in French) La Poupée sanglante (The Bloody Doll), by Gaston Leroux.[10]
Stories collections
editShort stories
editComics
editAudiovisual outputs
editMovies
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Pierre Versins (1923–2001)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ "Authors: Biggle, Lloyd, Jr: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ "Obituary: Avram Davidson". The Independent. May 13, 1993. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ "Authors: Gunn, James E: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ "Authors: Kornbluth, C M: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ "Authors: Bessière, Richard: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ Langford, David (February 14, 2001). "Obituary: Gordon Dixon". The Guardian. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ "Culture: Weird Tales: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- ^ The Encyclopedia of the Novel. John Wiley & Sons. 2011. p. 719. ISBN 9781405161848.
- ^ Stavans, Ilan; PhD, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans (1997). Antiheroes: Mexico and Its Detective Novel. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780838636442.