title: 1929 in science fiction
text: # 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.
  
  