title: 1930 in science fiction
text: # 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.
  
  