TIMELINE 1960-1970

TIMELINE 1960-1970
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What happened in the world of Science Fiction between 1960 and 1970?
There are 3 hotlinks here to authors, magazines, films, 
or television items elsewhere in the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide or beyond.

Most recently updated: 2 November 1998 

Executive Summary of the Decade
Major Books of the Decade
Major Films/TV of this Decade
Other Key Dates and Stories of this Decade
Major Writers Born this Decade 
Major Writers Died this Decade
Hotlinks to other Timeline pages of SF Chronology
Where to Go for More: 51 Useful Reference Books

Executive Summary of the Decade
  
This was the decade when human beings first went into space, with 
tentative suborbital flights in the X-15 and Mercury-Redstone, with a 
single orbit by Gagarin in Vostok-1, then longer orbits, the first woman in 
space (Valentina Tereshkova in 1963), then two astronauts at 
a time, three at a time, and then ... of course .. to the moon and back 
with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in Apollo 11 (1969).  
Every science fiction writer and reader got to tell their families and 
friends "I told you so!"

Space was not just for astronauts, of course.  The first weather satellite 
was launched in 1960, the first live transatlantic television by satellite 
was in 1962 (Telstar), and either one of these applications launched an 
industry that more than paid for the manned extravaganzas.  Both the USA 
(Mariner 4) and the USSR (Zond 2) launched interplanetary probes in 1964.
Both USA and USSR soft-land unmanned spacecraft on the Moon (1966) as part 
of a Moon Race, which the losing USSR later claims it was never in.

It was the heyday of the paperback book, which along with television's 
"Star Trek" and Hollywood films, continued to push science fiction 
magazines into a lesser space in the imagination.  For the first time, 
science fiction books regularly hit the best-seller list, and the top 
writers began to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in advance for 
their novels.  The Nebula Awards begin (1966).

Major science fiction and fantasy novels were published by:
Brian Aldiss, Kingsley Amis, Poul Anderson, Piers Anthony, J. G. Ballard, 
James Blish, John Brunner, Algis Budrys, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, 
Hal Clement, Mark Clifton, L. Sprague de Camp, Arthur C. Clarke, D. G. Compton, 
Avram Davidson, Leslie Purnell Davies, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, 
Gordon Dickson, Thomas M. Disch, G. C. Edmonson, Philip Jose Farmer, 
Daniel Francis Galouye, James E. Gunn, Harry Harrison, Robert A. Heinlein, 
Zenna Henderson, Frank Herbert, Hayden Howard, Robert E. Howard, 
Anna Kavan [Helen Woods Edmonds], Daniel Keyes, R. A. Lafferty, Keith Laumer, 
Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Stanislaw Lem, Ira Levin, Anne McCaffrey, 
Walter M. Miller, Michael Moorcock, Larry Niven, William Francis Nolan & 
George Clayton Johnson, Alan E. Nourse, Edgar Pangborn, Alexei Panshin, 
Keith Roberts, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, 
Cordwainer Smith, Norman Spinrad, Boris & Arkady Strugatski, Theodore Sturgeon, 
Walter Tevis, Wilson Tucker, Jack Vance, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., James White, 
and Roger Zelazny.

The psychedelic 1960's love-generation political revolution hippie 
"drugs, sex, rock & roll" era penetrated science fiction with a movement 
called "The New Wave", characterized by stylistic experiment, rejection of 
standards, emphasis on relevance, bold and sometimes obscene language, and 
altered states of consciousness.  This movement reached its high point in 
Harlan Ellison [as editor] "Dangerous Visions" (Garden City NY: Doubleday),
the most important anthology of the decade by far.  Novels such as "The 
Butterfly Kid" by Chester Anderson, with its explicit druggy Greenwich 
Village ambience, and Norman Spinrad's "Bug Jack Barron" followed where 
Michael Moorcock as New Wave idiologue led the way.  

The changes in the scene, more broadly, included: The Berlin Wall being erected 
in 1961, giving the Cold War a potent new metaphor, John F. Kennedy being 
assassinated in the United States (1963), Nelson Mandela starting a long prison 
term in South Africa (1964), Martin Luther King winning a Nobel Peace Prize (1965) 
and being assassinated (1968), the United States military openly in 
Vietnam (1965), the Cultural Revolution starting in China (1966), the Six 
Day War by Israel against its Arab neighbors (1967), Students rioting in 
Paris and the caollege campuses of America (1968), Prague Spring stomped 
flat by Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia (1968), the Hippie apotheosis in Woodstock 
and horror in the Charlie Manson murders (1969).
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Yet at the same time, there was a backlash of traditional "hard SF" novels 
led by former Caltech student Larry Niven.  Niven entered the ranks of 
Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, and Robert Heinlein with such 
startling feats of visionary hyper-engineering as "Ringworld" (1970).  
Gregory Benford was also in this vein, and Poul Anderson's "Tau Zero" 
relentlessly applied Einstein to cosmic storytelling.

In the world of magazines included "Astounding Science 
Fiction" being transformed into "Analog" (1960), Frederik Pohl taking the 
helm of "Galaxy" and "If" (1961), "Quarber Mercur" being launched in 
Austria (1963), "Amazing Stories" and "Fantastic" are sold to a new 
publisher who ends the editorship of Cele Goldsmith (1965), the bookazine 
anthology "Orbit" is launched by Damon Knight (1966), The French science 
fiction magazine "Horizons du Fantastique" is launched (1967), the Spanish 
magazine "Neuva Dimension" and the American journal "Locus" start 
production (1968), and the British/Australian magazine "Vision of Tomorrow" 
is the first to publish a story by Polish titan Stanislaw Lem (1969).

Outstanding short fiction appeared from a wide range of authors, including:
Vance Aandahl, Brian Aldiss, Dick Allen, Kingsley Amis, Poul Anderson, 
Piers Anthony, Christopher Anvil, Paul Ash, Isaac Asimov, Arnold M. Auerbach, 
Hillary Bailey, Russell Baker, J. G. Ballard, George Bamber, Neil Barrett Jr., 
Donald Barthelme, Charles Beaumont, Stephen Becker, Gregory Benford, 
Alfred Bester, Alistair Bevan, Lloyd Biggle, James Blish, J. F. Bone, 
Jorge Luis Borges, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Frederic Brown, 
Rosel George Brown, Reginald Bretnor, John Brunner, Art Buchwald, David R. Bunch, 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, William Burroughs, Johnny Byrne, Hortense Calisher, 
Holley Cantine, Terry Carr, Hap Carwood, A. Bertram Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, 
Hal Clement, Brian Cleve, Mark Clifton, D. G. Compton, Michael Coney, 
Betsy Curtis, Roald Dahl, Allen Danzig, Avram Davidson, Samuel Delany, 
Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dickson, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Gardner Dozois, 
Lawrence Durrell, Sheri S. Eberhart, Larry Eisenberg, Gordon Eklund, 
George P. Elliott, Harlan Ellison, Elizabeth Emmett, Carol Emshwiller, 
Philip Jose Farmer, James T. Farrell, Howard Fast, Burt Filer, Jack Finney, 
R. C. Fitzpatrick, Colin Free, Romain Gary, Jose Maria Gironella, Alice Glaser, 
Stephen Goldin, W. J. J. Gordon, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Robert M. Green Jr., 
Julian F. Grow, John Haase, Robert B. Hale, Donald Hall, Charles L. Harness, 
Harry Harrison, Karen Henderson, Zenna Henderson, Thomas Herzog, H. B. Hickey, 
H. H. Hollis, James D. Houston, Hayden Howard, Fred Hoyle, Kaatje Hurlbut, 
Harvey Jacobs, Alfred Jarry, Frank A. Javor, Gary Jenning, Edward Jesby, 
Gerald Jonas, Raymond F. Jones, A. K. Jorgensson, Norman Kagan, Colin Kapp, 
Michael Karageorge, Morgan Kent, Gerald Kersh, Marshall King, Alex Kirs, 
Damon Knight, Norman Knight, Dean R. Koontz, Bob Kurosaka, R. A. Lafferty, 
Tommaso Landolfi, Keith Laumer, Jack B. Lawson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, 
Myron L. Lewis, Robert Lory, C. C. MacApp, George MacBeth, John D. MacDonald, 
Edward Mackin, Katherine MacLean, Bernard Malamud, Alexander B. Malec, 
David I. Masson, Andre Maurois, Bruce McAllister, Anne McCaffrey, 
E. Clayton McCarty, Richard McKenna, Dean McLaughlin, Henri Michaux, 
Michael Moorcock, Ward Moore, Walter Moudy, Harry Mulisch, Ray Nelson, 
Joseph Nesvadba, Kris Neville, Larry Niven, William F. Nolan, Andre Norton, 
Alan E. Nourse, K. M. O'Donnell, Andrew J. Offutt, Bob Ottum Jr., Cliff Owsley, 
R. C. Phelan, Diana Plachta, Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, Arthur Porges, 
Tom Purdom, Rick Raphael, Peter Redgrove, Kit Reed, Mack Reynolds, 
Walt & Leigh Richmond, Frank Roberts, Keith Roberts, Frank M. Robinson, 
Robert Rohrer, David Rome, Joanna Russ, Bertrand Russell, Ray Russell, 
Fred Saberhagen, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Josephine Saxton, 
James H. Schmitz, James Schutz, Arthur Sellings, C. C. Shackleton, Jack Sharkey, 
Bob Shaw, Robert Sheckley, Clifford Simak, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John T. Sladek, 
Henry Slesar, Cordwainer Smith, Philip H. Smith, Norman Spinrad, 
Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Burnett Swann, Leo Szilard, Peter Tate, 
William F. Temple, William Tenn, Gilbert Thomas, Theodore Thomas, 
James Thurber, Robert Tilley, James Tiptree Jr., Robert D. Tschirigi, 
E. C. Tubb, John Updike, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, A. E. Van Vogt, Jack Vance, 
Vernor Vinge, Kurt Vonnegut, E. G. Von Wald, A. A. Walde, Robert Wallace, 
Edward Wellen, James White, M. E. White, Joseph Whitehill, George Whitley, 
Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Bernard Wolfe, Gene Wolfe, Gray Wright, 
John Wyndham, Laurence Yep, Albert F. Young, Robert F. Young, and the astonishing
Roger Zelazny.

Movies of the 1960s ranged from respectful treatments of the classics such 
as "The Time Machine" (1960) and "From the Earth to the Moon" (1964), both
from H. G. Wells novels; to clear-eyed adaptations of contemporary science 
fiction novels such as "The Day of the Triffids" (1963), "Farenheit 451"
(1966) from the Ray Bradbury novel, Planet of the Apes (1968) from the 
Pierre Boulle novel, and The Andromeda Strain (1970) from the novel by 
Michael Crichton. 

Similarly, "Charly" (1968) from the Daniel Keyes short story (later expanded)
"Flowers for Algernon", was genuinely science fiction (it could not have 
unfolded without a specific biomedical invention) and was a popular Oscar-winner
starring Cliff Robertson, without having to provide eye-candy special 
effects, robots, aliens, spaceships, or the other paraphrenalia which 
Hollywood producers mistake for the SF attitude of logical extrapolation.

This latter group of serious contemporary films based on the works of 
science fiction authors with respectable print reputations culminated 
in the unsurpassed "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), Arthur C. Clarke and 
Stanley Kubrik's magnificent collaboration which most critics of the time 
failed to comprehend.  

At the same time, films were made with an ironic, satiric, or 
self-referential edge not typical of earlier times, such as "Barbarella" (1967) 
with Jane Fonda as the sexy comic book heroine, "The Tenth Victim" (1965) from a 
novel "The Ninth Victim" by Robert Sheckley.  "Seconds" (1966) gives a wicked but 
plausible sting to the notion that one can, for a price, start over in a 
new body. Truffaut made a moody masterpiece with "Alphaville" (1965), a 
film that could not have been conceived in the schlocky sci-fi era of the 1940s 
and 1950s.  This irony and satire peaked, perhaps, in the very dark comedy of 
global nuclear war "Dr. Strangelove" (1964).

Television in the 1960s was crowned, in retrospect, by the low-budget 
high-concept "Star Trek."  "Star Trek" soon outpaced the previous king of 
the hill -- "The Twilight Zone" (1961) -- with notable episodes such as
"Menagerie" (1966) and "City on the Edge of Forever" (1967), the great episode 
scripted by Harlan Ellison, then allegedly botched by the producer.  A 1997 
book entirely deals with the tangled tale of this single episode.  I have 
information on, and hotlinks to, some 35 Science Fiction Television series of the 1960s
which is 5 more than in the decade of the 1950s.  The science fiction 
media boom was obvious to everyone, except the TV network executives, who 
still saw it as part of the low-budget juvenile heritage of the 1940s and 
1950s.  Were they in for a surprise...  Meanwhile, in Great Britain, a 
low-budget kid's show called "Doctor Who" began (1963) and soon attracted a 
cult audience, and then wider popularity.  Similarly "The Prisoner" starts 
small in Great Britain (1967), gains audiences in America, but is too 
intelligent for a true mass audience success.

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Major Books of the Decade
1960     Brian Aldiss: "Galaxies Like Grains of Sand" (New York: 
                New American Library)
1960     Poul Anderson: "The High Crusade"
                Nominee for 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1960     Algis Budrys: "Rogue Moon" (Greenwich CT: Fawcett)
                Nominee for 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1960     Mark Clifton: "Eight Keys to Eden" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1960     L. Sprague de Camp: "The Glory That Was" (New York: Avalon)
1960     Gordon Dickson: "Dorsai"
1960     Philip Jose Farmer: "Strange Relations" (New York: Ballentine)
1960     Harry Harrison: "Deathworld" (New York: Bantam)
                Nominee for 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1960     Walter M. Miller: "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (Philadelphia: Lippincott)
                Hugo Award, required reading in many college courses, an 
                absolute classic not to be missed.  Winner of 1960 Hugo 
                Award for Best Novel.
1960     Robert P. Mills [editor]: "The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction, 
                Ninth Series" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1960     Theodore Sturgeon: "Venus Plus X" (New York: Pyramid Books)
                Nominee for 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1961     Kingsley Amis & Robert Conquest [editor]: "Spectrum" (London: Gollancz)
1961     Arthur C. Clarke: "A Fall of Moondust" (New York: Harcourt Brace & World)
                Nominee for 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1961     Daniel Francis Galouye: "Dark Universe" (New York: Bantam)
                Nominee for 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1961     James E. Gunn: "The Joy Makers" (New York: Bantam)
1961     Harry Harrison: "The Stainless Steel Rat" (New York: Pyramid Books)
1961     Harry Harrison: "Sense of Obligation"
                Nominee for 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1961     Robert A. Heinlein: "Stranger in a Strange Land" (New York: Putnam)
                Winner of 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel.  Michael 
                Valentine Smith is born and brought up on Mars, and brings 
                Martian culture to Earth, which includes "Grokking", 
                communal living, ritual cannibalism, and unfortunately 
                became a bible to madman Charles Manson and his murderous 
                gang.  Robert Heinlein became a cult success among 
                teenagers, who failed to follow his philsophy as expressed 
                in other novels of Heinlein's.
1961     Zenna Henderson: "Pilgrimmage: The Book of the People" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1961     Stanislaw Lem: "Solaris" (Poland: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo)
                Intelligent extraterrestrial ocean is metaphysically 
                beyond the attempts of humans to fathom in this enigmatic 
                novel, made into a superior Russian film {hotlink to be done}
1961     Alan E. Nourse: "Tiger by the Tail and Other Science Fiction 
                 Stories" (New York: McKay)
1961     Clifford Simak: "The Fisherman"
                Nominee for 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1961     Theodore Sturgeon: "Some of Your Blood" (New York: Ballentine)
1961     James White: "Second Ending"
                Nominee for 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1962     xxxx: "The Manchrian Candidate" {to be done}
1962     Brian W. Aldiss: "The Long Afternoon of Earth" (New York: New American Library)
1962     J. G. Ballard: "The Drowned World" (New York: Berkley)
                surrealistic masterpiece about alienated protagonist 
                undergoing metaphysical transformation in the face of 
                global catastrophe (first of pseudo-trilogy including 
                1964: "The Burning World", and 1966: "The Crystal World")
1962     Marion Zimmer Bradley: "Sword of Aldones"
                Nominee for 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1962     Anthony Burgess: "A Clockwork Orange" (London: heinemann)
                {film hotlink to be done}
1962     Philip K. Dick: "The Man in the High Castle" (New York: Putnam) 
                 Arguably the greatest alternate history ("parahistory) 
                 novel.  Here, the Germans and Japanese occupy a 
                 balkanized America, having won World War II.  In a 
                 book-within-the-book, a novelist writes about an alternate 
                 world where America had won World War II.  This Hugo 
                 Award-winner was written with the aid of chance or 
                 synchronicity (with Dick casting the "I Ching") and it 
                 has a nuanced view of Eastern and Western cultures.  A 
                 disturbing and yet strangely uplifting masterpiece.
1962     H. Beam Piper: "Little Fuzzy"
                Nominee for 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1962     "Vercors": "Sylva"
                Nominee for 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1963     Pierre Boule: "La Planete des Singes" (later translated as 
                "The Planet of the Apes")
1963     John Brunner: "Castaways' World" (New York: Ace) 
1963     Robert A. Heinlein: "Glory Road"
                Nominee for 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1963     Robert A. Heinlein: "Orphans of the Sky" (London: Gollancz) 
                concludes the "Future History" series
1963     Frank Herbert: "Dune World"
                Nominee for 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1963     Andre Norton: "Witch World"
                Nominee for 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1963     Clifford D. Simak: "Here Gather the Stars"
                Winner of 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1963     Clifford D. Simak: "Way Station"
1963     Cordwainer Smith: "You Will Never Be The Same" (Evanston IL: Regency)
                 8 stories from the "Instrumentality of mankind" series
1963     Walter Tevis: "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (Greenwich CT: Fawcett) 
                {film hotlink to be done}
1963     Jack Vance: "The Dragon Masters" (New York: Ace)
1963     Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: "Cat's Cradle" (New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston)
                Nominee for 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1963     James White: "Star Surgeon" (New York: ballentine)
1964     Poul Anderson: "Trader to the Stars" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1964     J. G. Ballard: "The Burning World" (New York: Berkley)
                surrealistic masterpiece about alienated protagonist 
                undergoing metaphysical transformation in the face of 
                global catastrophe (2nd of pseudo-trilogy including 
                1962: "The Drowned World", and 1966: "The Crystal World")
1964     James Blish: "The Issue at Hand" (SF Criticism, under pseudonym 
                William Atheling)
1964     John Brunner: "The Whole Man"
                Nominee for 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1964     Hal Clement: "Close to Critical" (New York: Ballentine) Sequel to 
                "Mission of Gravity" (1954)
1964     Robert E. Howard: "Almuric" (New York: Ace) posthumous 
                 publication of "Weird Tales" serial (1939)
1964     Fritz Leiber: "The Wanderer" (New York: Ballentine) 
                1964 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
1964     Edgar Pangborn: "Davy" (New York: St.Martin)
                Nominee for 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1964     Cordwainer Smith: "The Planet Buyer"
                Nominee for 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1965     Brian W. Aldiss: "Best Science Fiction of Brian Aldiss" (London: 
                 Faber & Faber)
1965     Poul Anderson: "The Star Fox" Nebula finalist
1965     John Brunner: "The Squares of the City" (New York: Ballentine) War and peace, 
                 human rights, dictatorship, politics, and all based on an 
                 actual chess game!
                Nominee for 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1965     William Burroughs: "Nova Express", Hallucinatory, disjointed 
                 Nebula finalist in which junkies and aliens blur together
1965     Avram Davidson: "Rogue Dragon" erudite Nebula finalist
1965     Philip K. Dick: "Dr. Bloodmoney" Nebula finalist
1965     Philip K. Dick: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" 
                 (Garden City NY: Doubleday) One of Dick's dream-logic 
                 masterpieces, in which drigs change the world rather than 
                 individual consciousness. Nebula finalist 
1965     Thomas M. Disch: "The Genocides" Nebula finalist
1965     G. C. Edmonson: "The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream" Nebula finalist
1965     Frank Herbert: "Dune" (Philadelphia: Chilton) {film hotlink to be done}
                The breaktrhough od Space Opera into major Literature.
                Winner of the first Nebula Award for Best Novel
                Tied as Winner of 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1965     Keith Laumer: "A Plague of Demons" Nebula finalist
1965     Sam Moskowitz [editor]: "Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction" 
                 (Cleveland: World)
1965     Clifford D. Simak: "All Flesh is Grass" Nebula finalist
1965     E. E. Smith: "Skylark DuQuesne"
                Nominee for 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1965     Theodore L. Thomas & Kate Wilhelm: "The Clone" Nebula finalist
1965     James White: "Escape Orbit" Nebula finalist
1965     Roger Zelazny: "...And Call Me Conrad"
                Tied as Winner of 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     J. G. Ballard: "The Crystal World" (London: Cape; New York: Berkley)
                surrealistic masterpiece about alienated protagonist 
                undergoing metaphysical transformation in the face of 
                global catastrophe (3rd of pseudo-trilogy including 
                1962: "The Drowned World", and 1964: "The Burning World")
1966     Samuel R. Delany: "Babel-17" Amazing action-adventure space story 
                based on linguistics.  Delany was a teenager when he wrote 
                this scintillating tale.
                Nebula Award (tied for 1st place)
                Nominee for 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     Harlan Ellison (ed.): "Dangerous Visions"
                The most influential "New Wave" anthology
1966     Randall Garrett: "Too Many Magicians"  Murder mystery in a world 
                where magic works, in a manner as logical as science is 
                for us. Nominee for 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     Robert A. Heinlein: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" Nebula finalist
                Nominee for 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
                Winner of 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     Daniel Keyes: "Flowers for Algernon" (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World)
                Nebula Award (tied for 1st place)
                adaped to film "Charlie" {hotlink to be done}
                Nominee for 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     Ursula K. Le Guin: "Planet of Exile" (New York: Ace)
1966     Ursula K. Le Guin: "Rocannon's World" (New York: Ace)
1966     James H. Schmitz: "The Witches of Karres"
                Nominee for 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     Thomas Burnett Swann: "Day of the Minotaur" [fantasy]
                Nominee for 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1966     James White: "The Watch Below" (New York: Ballentine)
1966     Roger Zelazny: "This Immortal" (New York: Ace)
                The Earth may be attacked by aliens, crushed by 
                catastrophe, srawrming with mutants, but that is merely 
                the canvas for an optimistic tale of benign immortals
1967     Chester Anderson: "The Butterfly Kid"
                Hippies save Greenwich Village -- and the world.
                Nominee for 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1967     Piers Anthony: "Chthon" 
                Nebula finalist.
                Nominee for 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1967     John Brunner: "Quicksand" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1967     Samuel Delany, Jr.: "The Einstein Intersection" (New York: Ace) 
                Nebula finalist.
                Nominee for 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1967     Harlan Ellison [editor]: "Dangerous Visions" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
                 The most important anthology of the decade by far
1967     Hayden Howard: "The Eskimo Invasion" Nebula finalist
1967     Anna Kavan [Helen Woods Edmonds]: "Ice" (London: Owens)
1967     William Francis Nolan & George Clayton Johnson: "Logan's Run" 
                (New York: Dial) {film & TV hotlinks to be done}
1967     Robert Silverberg: "Thorns" 
                Nebula finalist.
                Nominee for 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1967     Roger Zelazny: "Four for Tomorrow" (New York: Ace)
1967     Roger Zelazny: "Lord of Light" (New York: Doubleday)
                Hindu and Buddhist mythology transformed gloriously into 
                science fiction. Nebula finalist.
                Winner of 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1968     James Blish: "Black Easter" Nebula finalist (ranked #5) 
                 Theological horror
1968     John Brunner: "Stand on Zanzibar" (Garden City NY: Doubleday) Best 
                overpopulation/ecological crisis novel ever published, 
                which also predicted the Internet and computer viruses...
                Sheer genius, very scary, and very funny at the same time.
                Nebula finalist (ranked #3).
                Winner of 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1968     Leslie Purnell Davies: "The Alien" (London: Jenkins)
1968     Samuel Delany, Jr.: "Nova" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
                Nominee for 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1968     Philip K. Dick: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Nebula finalist 
                 (tied for 6th place) adapted to film "Bladerunner" 
                 {hotlink to be done}
1968     Thomas M. Disch: "Camp Concentration" (London: Rupert Hart Davis)
                Secret military project injects prisoners with mutant 
                syphilis, and they become supergeniuses intent on a 
                transformational escape.  Great wit and irony.
1968     R. A. Lafferty: "Past Master" (New York: Ace) 
                Nebula finalist (tied for #6).
                Nominee for 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1968     Alexei Panshin: "Rite of Passage" (New York: Ace)
                Teenagers on Heinleinian generation starship are required 
                to travel on a colonized planet in order to be transformed 
                into adults.
                Won the 4th annual Nebula Award for Best Novel.
                Nominee for 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1968     Keith Roberts: "Pavane" (Garden City NY: Doubleday) Another 
               contender for the greatest Alternate History novel: the Spanish Armada 
               defeated England, and the Roman Catholic Church has strangled technological 
               development
1968     Joanna Russ: "Picnic on Paradise" (New York: Ace) 
              Nebula finalist (ranked #4)
1968     Clifford Simak: "Goblin Reservation"
                Nominee for 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1968     Robert Silverberg: "The Masks of Time" Nebula finalist (ranked #2)
1968     Boris & Arkady Strugatski (anonymous editors):
                "The Molecular Cafe" groundbreaking Soviet SF anthology for 
                Western distribution
1969     Piers Anthony: "Macroscope"  To your humble webmaster, this was 
                Piers Anthony's greatest work of science fiction.  It 
                presumes with a straight face that Astrology is true, in 
                the sense that there are twelve zodaical zones in the 
                galaxy that affect human life, and pursues this notion with 
                gosh-wow pseudo-hard-SF imagination involving astronomy 
                and evolutionary biology, with transcendent zeal.
                Nominee for 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1969     John Brunner: "The Jagged Orbit"
                Nominee for 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1969     Harry Harrison: "Captive Universe" (New York: Putnam) 
                Generation-ship novel in the great tradition.
1969     Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Left Hand of Darkness" (New York: Ace; Walker)
                Human colonists on the world Winter have mutated or been 
                genetically engineered into hermaphrodites who change sex 
                when powerfully aroused.  This profound study of gender and 
                society is seen through the eyes of a terrestrial human, 
                who is seen on Winter as a freak for not being able to 
                change from male to female.  Very controversial novel.
                Winner of 5th Annual Nebula Award for Best Novel.
                Winner of 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1969     Anne McCaffrey: "The Ship Who Sang" (New York: Walker)
1969     Michael Moorcock: "The Ice Schooner" (London: Sphere)
1969     Robert Silverberg: "To Live Again" (Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1969     Robert Silverberg: "Up the Line" Nebula finalist, bawdy time travel
                analysis of the paradox that if time travel tourism is 
                possible, why aren't there vast crowds at every historical 
                event?  Makes original suggestion that people would find 
                incest with their remote ancestors to be very appealing.
                Nominee for 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1969     Norman Spinrad: "Bug Jack Barron" Controversial novel about a 
                future television show journalist who engages celebreties 
                and callers with tough questions, very much in the way 
                that TV today has blurred the boundaries between news and 
                entertainment.  He has a moral crisis when the scandal he's 
                probing might buy him off with immortality.
                Nebula finalist (ranked #3).
                Nominee for 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1969     Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: "Slaughterhouse Five" (New York: Delacorte Press)
                Based on autobiographical experience of the firebombibg of 
                Dresden, Vonnegut creates a wry satire of science fiction 
                which is itself good science fiction, with the 
                4-dimensional Tralfamadoreans bringing protagonist Billy 
                Pilgrim into their perception of space and time.
                {film hotlink to be done} Nebula finalist (ranked #2)
                Nominee for 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1969     Roger Zelazny: "Damnation Alley" (New York: Putnam)
1969     Roger Zelazny: "Isle of the Dead" (New York: Ace) Nebula finalist.
                Nominee for 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1970     Poul Anderson: "Tau Zero" (Garden City NY: Doubleday) The greatest novel 
                based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity and a modern 
                conception of cosmology.
                Finalist for 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1970     Terry Carr [editor]: "New Worlds of Fantasy, No.2" (New York: Ace) 
                 anthology combining fantasy, science fiction, and horror
1970     Lin Carter [editor]: "The Magic of Atlantis" (New York: Lancer) 
                 thematic anthology of fantasy
1970     Hal Clement: "Star Light"
                Finalist for 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1970     D. G. Compton: "The Steel Crocodile" Nebula finalist (ranked #6).
1970     L. Sprague de Camp [editor]: "Warlocks and Warriors" (New York: Putnam)
                 Good anthology of heroic fantasy
1970     Robert A. Heinlein: "I Will Fear No Evil" (New York: Putnam)
1970     R. A. Lafferty: "Fourth Mansions" Nebula finalist (ranked #5).
1970     Staislaw Lem: "Solaris" (London: Faber & Faber) {film hotlink to be done}
1970     Ira Levin: "This Perfect Day" (New York: Random House) Cyberdystopia
1970     Larry Niven: "Ringworld" Won the 6th annual Nebula Award
                Winner of 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1970     Joanna Russ: "And Chaos Died" tied for 2nd as Nebula finalist
1970     Robert Silverberg: "Tower of Glass" (New York: Scribners) 
                tied for 2nd as Nebula finalist.
                Finalist for 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1970     Robert Silverberg: "Downward to the Earth" Nebula finalist
1970     Robert Silverberg [editor]: "The Mirror of Infinity: A Critic's 
                Anthology of Science Fiction" (New York: Harper & Row)
1970     Robert Silverberg [editor]: "Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I" 
                Garden City NY: Doubleday)
1970     Wilson Tucker: "The Year of the Quiet Sun" 
                Nebula finalist (ranked #4).
                Finalist for 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
1970     Roger Zelazny: "Nine Princes of Amber" [Fantasy]

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Major Films/Television this Decade
see also Science Fiction Television of the 1960s

1960     The Angry Red Planet
1960     The Time Machine
            from the H. G. Wells novel
1960     Village of the Damned
1960     X--the Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1961     The Twilight Zone [TV]
1963     The Day of the Triffids
1964     From the Earth to the Moon
            from the H. G. Wells novel
1964     Dr. Strangelove
1965     The Tenth Victim
            from a novel "The Ninth Victim" by Robert Sheckley
1965     Alphaville
1965     Doctor Who and the Daleks [British TV]
1966     Farenheit 451
            from the Ray Bradbury novel
1966     Seconds
1966     "Menagerie" [Star Trek]
1967     "City on the Edge of Forever" [TV: Star Trek]
            the great episode scripted by Harlan Ellison, then botched by 
            the producer
1967     Barbarella
1968     Planet of the Apes
            from the Pierre Boulle novel
1968     2001: A Space Odyssey
            Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik's collaboration
1968     Charly
             from the Daniel Keyes short story "Flowers for Algernon", 
             Oscar-winner
1969     {to be done}
1970     The Andromeda Strain
             from the novel by Michael Crichton
1970     Colossus: The Forbin Project

Reviews of 1960's SF Movies

The list above concentrates on Science Fiction as such.  For another 
perspective, see:

The Best Horror Films of the Sixties page of Losman's Lair of Horror

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Major Writers Born this Decade
1960  Dafydd ab Hugh
1960  Bob Eggleton (13 Sep 1960) Artist
1960  Scott D. Yost
1961  Tara K. Harper
1962  Kevin J. Anderson
1963  Laurel K. Hamilton
1963  Sue Isle 
1963  Paul Kidd
1963  Lawrence Norfolk
1963  Nicholas Royle
1964  Joshua Bilmes (22 Sep 1964) Literary Agent
1964  Andrew Harman
1964  Jonathan Lethem
1965  Kevin Standlee (27 Aug 1965)
1966  Michael Carroll
1966  Sarah Zettel
1967  Stephen Baxter
1967  Poppy Z. Brite
1967  Paul Kearney
1967  Cecilia Tan
1968  Tricia Sullivan
more {to be done}

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Major Writers Died this Decade
1960  Eric Temple Bell, age 87?
1960  Albert Camus
1960  Victor Rousseau Emanuel, age 81
1960  Boris Pasternak
1960  Danton Walker, age 61
1961  Sir Henry Howart Bashford, age 81
1961  Dashiell Hammett, age 67
1961  Norvell W. Page, age 58
1962  Pierre Benoit, age 76
1962  Sir Charles Galton Darwin, age 75
1962  Howard Roger Garis, age 89, wrote 1st 35 "Tom Swift" books
1962  Michel de Ghelderode, age 64
1963  Kay Burdekin (pseudonym of Katharine Penelope Cade), age 67
1963  Mark Clifton, age 57
1963  Thomas S. Gardner, age 55
1963  Oliver La Farge, age 62
1963  Victor McClure, age 76
1963  Frank R. Paul, age 79, artist
1963  Julius Unger, age 52
1964  Ian Fleming, age 56
1964  Richard McKenna, age 51
1964  Jean Ray (pseudonym of Raymond DeKremer), age 75, Belgium
1965  Shirley Barker, age 54
1965  Sydney Fowler, age 91, wrote as S. Fowler Wright
1965  Shirley Jackson, age 46
1965  Elliott O'Donnell, age 83
1965  H. R. Wakefield, age 77
1966  Basil Davenport, age 61
1966  Brian O'Nolan, age 55
1966  Mrs. Violet Van Der Elst, age 84
1967  Charles Beaumont, long wasting illness, age 38
1967  Basil Rathbone, age 75, actor/author
1968  Helen Edmonds, age 67
1968  George Gamow, age 64
1968  Gerald Kersh
1968  Bernard Newman, age 71
1968  Edwin O'Connor, age 50
1968  Mervyn Peake, age 57
1969  Alexandra David-Nell, age 101
1969  Seabury Quinn, age 80
1970  Brigadier Nigel Balchin, age 62
1970  Erle Stanley Gardner, age 81
1970  Guy Endore, age 70
1970  Graham McInnes, age 58
1970  Sir Compton McKenzie, age 87
more {to be done}

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Other Key Dates and Stories of this Decade

1960 "Astounding" gradually changes its name to "Analog"

1960  The science fiction magazine field in America continues to implode, 
down from 13 titles and 131 issues in 1959 to 9 titles with 67 issues 
in 1960 (Lester del Rey's count)

1960  The Columbia magazine chain ("Future", "Science Fiction", "Original 
Science Fiction") collapses and dies

Jan 1960  Harry Harrison's serial "Deathworld" begins in "Astounding"

1960: Pittcon, the Eighteenth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (Penn-Sheraton Hotel), Chaired by Dirce Archer, 
James Blish as Guest of Honor, 568 members attending.  The Hugo Awards and 
Nominations included:
     Best SF Short Fiction
     Poul Anderson's short story "The Longest Voyage" (winner)
     Pauline Ashwell's short story "The Lost Kafoozalum" (Analog)
          (Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award 
          for best short story)
     Theodore Sturgeon's short story "Need"
     Philip Jose Farmer's short story "Open to Me, My Sister"

July 1960  Poul Anderson's wonderful serial "High Crusade" begins in "Analog"

Dec 1960  Algis Budrys' short novel "Rogue Moon" in "F&SF" later expanded 
for book publication

Other major short fiction of the year:
1960  Brian Aldiss' short story "Old Hundredth"
1960  Kingsley Amis' short story "Hemingway in Space"
1960  Christopher Anvil's short story "A Rose by Other Name"
1960  Frederic Brown's short story "Abominable"
1960  Rosel George Brown's short story "David's Daddy"
1960  Reginald Bretnor's short story "The man on Top"
1960  John Brunner's short story "Report on the Nature of the Lunar Surface"
1960  Holley Cantine's short story "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble"
1960  Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon"
1960  Elizabeth Emmett's short story "Enchantment"
1960  Howard Fast's short story "The Large Ant"
1960  Zenna Henderson's short story "Something Bright"
1960  Marshall King's short story "Beach Scene"
1960  Richard McKenna's short story "Mine Own Ways"
1960  Dean McLaughlin's short story "The Brotherhood of Keepers"
1960  Ward Moore's short story "The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl"
1960  R. C. Phelan's short story "Something Invented Me"
1960  William Sambrot's short story "Creature of the Snows"
1960  Henry Slesar's short story "Chief"
1960  Joseph Whitehill's short story "In the House, Another"
1960  Bernard Wolfe's short story "The Never Ending Penny"
{the above 21 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's best SF: 
Sixth Annual Edition"}

1961  Horace L. Gold, because of illness, retires as Editor of "Galaxy" and 
is replaced by Frederik Pohl, who also edits "If" and some other magazines 
under Guinn Publishing Company

1961  The American science fiction magazine implosion becomes complete, leaving only 
6 titles and 60 total issues for the entire year 1961 (Lester del Rey's count)
compared to 36 titles in 1953

1961  The British science fiction magazine implosion parallels the 
American collapse, with only "New Worlds" and "Science-Fantasy" still 
published, and only 18 total issues in 1961

Apr 1961  Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang" in "F&SF"

1961: Seacon, the Nineteenth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Seattle, Washington, (Hyatt House), Chaired by Wally Weber, 
Robert A. Heinlein as Guest of Honor, 300 members attending. 
The Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction went to :
Brian Aldiss for his "Hothouse" series of stories.  Finalists were:
1961  Lloyd Biggle's short story "Monument"
1961  Fritz Leiber's short story "Scylla's Daughter"
1961  Mack Reynolds' short story "Status Quo"
1961  James H. Schmitz' short story "Lion Loose"

1961  Avram Davidson's "The Sources of the Nile" in "F&SF", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

Dec 1961  Mack Reynolds' serial "Black Man's Burden" begins in "Analog"

1961  George Bamber's short story "Ottmar Balleau X 2"
1961  J. F. Bone's short story "A Prize for Edie"
1961  Reginald Bretnor's short story "All the Tea in China"
1961  Frederic Brown's short story "Nightmare in Time"
1961  David R. Bunch's short story "A Small Miracle of Fishhooks and 
          Straight Pins"
1961  Lawrence Durrell's short story "High Barbary"
1961  Sheri S. Eberhart's short story "Extraterrestrial Trialogue in Terran 
           Self-Destruction"
1961  George P. Elliott's short story "Among the Dangs"
1961  Alice Glaser's short story "The Tunnel Ahead"
1961  Julian F. Grow's short story "The Fastest Gun Dead"
1961  John Haase's short story "The Countdown"
1961  Robert B. Hale's short story "Immediately Yours"
1961  Kaatje Hurlbut's short story "A Passage From the Stars"
1961  Fritz Leiber's short story "The Beat Cluster"
1961  Anne McCaffrey's short story "The Ship Who Sang"
1961  Ward Moore's short story "It Becomes Necessary"
1961  Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth's short story "The Quaker Cannon"
1961  Kit Reed's short story "Judas Bomb"
1961  Mack Reynolds' short story "Freedom"
1961  David Rome's short story "Parky"
1961  Ray Russell's short story "The Long Night"
1961  Cordwainer Smith's short story "A Planet Named Shayol"
1961  Leo Szilard's short story "My Trial as a War Criminal"
1961  John Wyndham's short story "The Asteroids, 2194"
1961  Robert F. Young's short story "The Dandelion Girl"
{the above 26 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's Best SF: 
7th Annual Edition"}

1962  British magazine "Science Fiction Adventures" publishes six issues in 1962

June 1962  Theodore T. Thomas' "The Weatherman" in "Analog"

1962: Chicon II, the Twentieth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Chicago, Illinois, (Pick-Congress Hotel), Chaired by Earl Kemp, 
Theodore Sturgeon as Guest of Honor, 568 members attending. Hugo Award for 
best SF Short Fiction went to Jack Vance for "The Dragon Master", and other
nominees were:
1962  Gary Jenning's short story "Myrrha"
1962  Fritz Leiber's short story "The Unholy Grail"
1962  Theodore Sturgeon's short story "When You Care, When You Love"
1962  Thomas Burnett Swann's short story "Where is the Bird of Fire?" 
   (Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
   short story)

Sep 1962  Joseph Goodavage's astrology/weather prediction nonfiction series
 begins in "Analog"

Nov 1962  H. Beam Piper's serial "Space Vikings" begins in "Analog"

1962  Vance Aandahl's short story "The Unfortunate Mr. Morky"
1962  Poul Anderson's short story "Kings Who Die"
1962  Arnold M. Auerbach's short story "The Day Rembrandt Went Public"
1962  Russell Baker's short story "Ms Found on a Bus"
1962  J. G. Ballard's short story "The Insane Ones"
1962  Ray Bradbury's short story "A Miracle of Rare Device"
1962  Frederic Brown's short story "Puppet Show"
1962  John Brunner's short story "Such Stuff"
1962  Brian Cleve's short story "Angela's Satyr"
1962  Mark Clifton's short story "Hang Head, Vandal"
1962  Gordon Dickson's short story "Home From the Shore"
1962  Harlan Ellison's short story "All the Sounds of Fear"
1962  Jack Finney's short story "The Face in the Photo"
1962  R. C. Fitzpatrick's short story "The Circuit Riders"
1962  Harry Harrison's short story "The Toy Shop"
1962  Karen Henderson's short story "The Piebald Hippogriff"
1962  Zenna Henderson's short story "Subcommittee"
1962  Gerald Kersh's short story "The Unsafe Deposit Box"
1962  R. A. Lafferty's short story "Seven-Day Terror"
1962  Fritz Leiber's short story "The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity"
1962  William F. Nolan's short story "One of Those Days"
1962  Frederik Pohl's short story "The Martian Star-Gazers"
1962  Bertrand Russell's short story "Planetary Effulgence"
1962  William Sambrot's short story "Leprechaun"
1962  Edward Wellen's short story "Deadly Game"
1962  James White's short story "Christmas Treason"
1962  George Whitley's short story "Change of Heart"
{the above 27 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's Best SF: 
8th Annual Edition"}


1963  Frederik Pohl ("Galaxy", "If") launches "Worlds of Tomorrow"

1963  Health Knowledge, Inc. publishes the "Magazine of Horror" under 
editor Robert A. W. Lowndes (until 1971)

1963  British magazine "Science Fiction Adventures" publishes three more issues 
in 1963 and then collapses

1963  The magazine "Quarber Mercur" is launched in Austria

July 1963  Clifford D. Simak's serial "Here Gather the Stars" begins in 
"Galaxy" (later the book "Way Station")

1963: Discon I, the Twenty-First World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Washington, D.C, (Statler-Hilton Hotel), Chaired by George Scithers, 
Murray Leinster as Guest of Honor, 600 members attending.
Hugo Awards and Nominations for Best SF Short Fiction were:
1963  Poul Anderson's short story "No Truce with Kings" (winner)
1963  Edgar Rice Burroughs' short story "Savage Pellucidar" (nominee)
1963  Rick Raphael's short story "Code Three" (nominee)
1963  Roger Zelazny's short story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" (nominee)

1963  Philip K. Dick's "Stand-By" in "Amazing Stories", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

Nov 1963  Roger Zelazny heralded as a major star with publication of "A 
Rose for Ecclesiastes" in "F&SF"

Dec 1963  Frank Herbert's serial "Dune World" begins in "Analog" (later 
published as the book "Dune")

1963  Charles Beaumont's short story "Mourning Song"
1963  Alfred Bester's short story "They Don't Make Life Like They Used To"
1963  Lloyd Biggle's short story "A Slight Case of Limbo"
1963  J. F. Bone's short story "On the Fourth Planet"
1963  Reginald Bretnor's short story "Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well"
1963  Frederic Brown's short story "Double Standard"
1963  Hal Clement's short story "Hot Planet"
1963  Allen Danzig's short story "The Great Nebraska Sea"
1963  W. J. J. Gordon's short story "The Nobel Prize Winners"
1963  Frank A. Javor's short story "Interview"
1963  Gerald Kersh's short story "A Bargain with Cashel"
1963  Fritz Leiber's short story "237 Talking Statues"
1963  Bernard Malamud's short story "The JewBird"
1963  Bruce McAllister's short story "The Faces Outside"
1963  Andre Maurois' short story "The Earth Dwellers"
1963  Ray Nelson's short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning"
1963  Cliff Owsley's short story "Confessions of the First Number"
1963  Peter Redgrove's short story "Mr. Waterman"
1963  Walt & Leigh Richmond's short story "Poppa Needs Shorts"
1963  Fred Saberhagen's short story "Fortress Ship"
1963  Cordwainer Smith's short story "Drunkboat"
1963  William Tenn's short story "Bernie the Faust"
1963  E. C. Tubb's short story "The Ming Vase"
{the above 23 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's Best SF: 
9th Annual Edition"}


1964  E. J. "Ted" Carnell forced out of British magazine "Science 
Fantasy", new editor is Kyril Bonfiglioli

1964  E. J. "Ted" Carnell forced out of British magazine "New Worlds", 
new editor is Michael Moorcock, who leads the revolutionary "New Wave" 
movement in science fiction

1964  The French magazine "Galaxie" is revived

1964: Pacificon II, the Twenty-Second World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Oakland, California, (Hotel Leamington), Chaired by J. Ben Stark and Al 
HaLevy, Leigh Brackett as Pro Guest of Honor, Edmond Hamilton as Pro Guest of Honor,
Forrest J. Ackerman as Fan  Guest of Honor, 523 members attending.
Hugo Awards and Nominations for Best SF Short Fiction were:
1964  Gordon Dickson's short story "Soldier, Ask Not" (winner)
1964  Rick Raphael's short story "Once a Cop" (nominee)
1964  Albert F. Young's short story "Little Dog Gone" (nominee)

1964  Thomas M. Disch's "Now is Forever" in "Amazing Stories", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

Oct 1964  "If" under Frederik Pohl speeds up to monthly publication, 
having started as bimonthly

Dec 1964  Larry Niven's "The Coldest Place" in "If" marks the debut of the 
top "Hard SF" author of his era

1964  Russell Baker's short story "A Sinister Metamorphosis"
1964  J. G. Ballard's short story "The Terminal Beach"
1964  Stephen Becker's short story "The New Encyclopaedist"
1964  John Brunner's short story "The Last Lonely Man"
1964  David R. Bunch's short story "Training Talk"
1964  Hap Carwood's short story "Synchromocracy"
1964  Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Shining Ones"
1964  Thomas M. Disch's short story "Descending"
     the greatest escalator story ever told
1964  Larry Eisenberg's short story "The Pirokin Effect"
1964  James T. Farrell's short story "A Benefactor of Humanity"
1964  Romain Gary's short story "Decadence"
1964  Jose Maria Gironella's short story "The Red Egg"
1964  Donald Hall's shaggy dog story "The Wonderful Dog Suit"
1964  James D. Houston's short story "Gas Mask"
1964  Norman Kagan's short story "The Mathenauts"
1964  Morgan Kent's short story "Family Portrait"
1964  Fritz Leiber's short story "Be of Good Cheer"
1964  John D. MacDonald's short story "The Legend of Joe Lee"
1964  Joseph Nesvadba's short story "The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich"
1964  Arthur Porges' short story "Problem Child"
1964  Rick Raphael's short story "Sonny"
1964  Kit Read's short story "Automatic Tiger"
1964  Mack Reynolds' short story "Pacifist"
1964  Frank Roberts' short story "It Could Be You"
1964  Robert Rohrer's short story "The Man Who Found Proteus"
1964  Jack Sharkey's short story "The Twerlick"
1964  Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Yachid and Yechida"
1964  Philip H. Smith & Alan E. Nourse's short story "A Miracle Too Many"
1964  Robert Wallace's short story "A Living Doll"
1964  M. E. White's short story "The Power of Positive Thinking"
1964  Richard Wilson's short story "The Carson Effect"
1964  Roger Zelazny's short story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"
{the above 32 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's Best SF: 
10th Annual Edition"}

1964  Christopher Anvil's short story "Bill for Delivery"
1964  Ben Bova and Myron L. Lewis' short story "Men of Good Will"
1964  John Brunner's short story "The Last Lonely Man"
1964  Philip K. Dick's short story "Oh, to Be a Blobel!"
1964  Thomas M. Disch's short story "Now is Forever"
1964  Colin Free's short story "The Weather in the Underworld"
1964  Edward Jesby's short story "Sea Wrack"
1964  Norman Kagan's short story "Four Brands of Impossible"
1964  Jack B. Lawson's short story "The Competitors"
1964  Fritz Leiber's short story "When the Change-Winds Blow"
1964  Robert Lory's short story "The Star Party"
1964  C. C. MacApp's short story "For Every Action"
1964  Edward Mackin's short story "The Unremembered"
1964  Harry Mulisch's short story "What Happened to Sergeant Masuro?"
1964  Joseph Nesvadba's short story "Vampires Ltd."
1964  Tom Purdom's short story "Greenplace"
1964  William F. Temple's short story "A Niche in Time"
{the above 17 stories appear in  Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr [editors] 
"World's Best Science Fiction: 1965"}

It speaks well for the short fiction of 1964 that of the two fine 
anthologies listed above, only one story appears in both (John Brunner's 
"The Last Lonely Man").  Many people were writing many wonderful stories.


1965  Damon Knight founds Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)

1965  Ziff-Davis publishing, which had been printing "Amazing" and 
"Fantastic Stories" monthly, sells these magazines to Sol Cohen, a 
skelatonous former Robert Guinn employee who told your humble webmaster 
that he got into the magazine business because he loved the smell of pulp 
magazine paper/ink/glue.  Sol Cohen cuts costs by slipping to bimonthly and 
mostly printing reprints, literally razored out of the priceless complete 
run of magazines in the "Amazing" library.  Cele Goldsmith is no longer at 
the helm as editor. Ted White, who was hired by Cohen in 1969, told me that 
Cohen was "a scumbag."

1965  British magazine "Science Fantasy", under Kyril Bonfiglioli, 
accelerates from bimonthly to monthly

Jan 1965  Frank Herbert's "Prophet of Dune" serial (sequel to "Dune") 
begins in "Analog"

June 1965  E. E. Smith's "Skylark DuQuesne" begins in "Galaxy"

1965: Loncon II, the Twenty-Third World Science Fiction Convention, 
in London, England, (Mount Royal Hotel), Chaired by Ella Parker, 
Brian W. Aldiss as Guest of Honor, 350 members attending.
Besides the Hugo Awards for Best Novel, listed in the section of this page 
about Books, the following Hugo Awards and Nominations were made for 
     Best SF Short Fiction:
1965  Harlan Ellison's short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"
          (winner)
1965  Poul Anderson's short story "Marque and Reprisal" (nominee)
1965  Philip Jose Farmer's short story "Day of the Great Shout" (nominee)
1965  Fritz Leiber's short story "Stardock" (nominee)
1965  Roger Zelazny's novelette "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His 
          Mouth" (nominee)

1965  Barrington Bayley's "All The King's Men" in "New Worlds", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

Oct 1965:  Roger Zelazny's "... And Call Me Conrad" serial begins in 
"F&SF" (later a book from Ace as "This Immortal"

Dec 1965  Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" begins in "If"

Dec 1965  Harlan Ellison's "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" 
begins in "Galaxy", later won both Nebula and Hugo Awards

1965  Brian Aldiss' short story "Scarfe's World"
1965  Isaac Asimov's short story "Eyes Do More Than See"
1965  J. G. Ballard's short story "The Drowned Giant"
1965  J. G. Ballard's short story "The Volcano Dances"
1965  Donald Barthelme's short story "Game"
1965  Alistair Bevan's short story "Susan"
1965  Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Circular Ruins"
1965  Art Buchwald's short story "Mars is Ours"
1965  David R. Bunch's short story "Investigating the Bidwell Endeavors"
1965  Johnny Byrne's short story "Yesterday's Gardens"
1965  Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Maelstrom II"
1965  Roald Dahl's short story "In The Ruins"
1965  Gordon R. Dickson's short story "Warrior"
1965  Thomas M. Disch's short story "The Roaches"
1965  Ron Goulart's short story "Terminal"
1965  Thomas Herzog's short story "The Plot"
1965  Harvey Jacobs' short story "The Girl Who Drew the Gods"
1965  Alfred Jarry's short story "Two Telepathic Letters to Lord Kelvin"
1965  A. K. Jorgensson's short story "Coming-of-Age Day"
1965  Gerald Kersh's short story "Somewhere Not Far From Here"
1965  Alex Kirs' short story "Better Than Ever"
1965  Bob Kurosaka's short story "Those Who Can, Do"
1965  R. A. Lafferty's short story "Slow Tuesday Night"
1965  Fritz Leiber's short story "Moon Duel"
1965  Alexander B. Malec's short story "Project Inhumane"
1965  David I. Masson's short story "Traveller's Rest"
1965  Walter Moudy's short story "The Survivor"
1965  Bob Ottum Jr.'s short story "Ado About Nothing"
1965  David Rome's short story "There's a Starman in Ward 7"
1965  Josephine Saxton's short story "The Wall"
1965  Robert Tilley's short story "Something Else"
1965  Robert D. Tschirigi's short story "A Singular Case of Extreme 
          Electrolyte Balance Associated with Flie a Deux"
1965  E. C. Tubb's short story "J is for Jeanne"
{the above 33 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's Best SF: 
11th Annual Edition"}

1965  Christopher Anvil's short story "The Captive Djinn"
1965  Jonathan Brand's novelette "Vanishing Point"
1965  Lin Carter's short story "Uncollected Works"
1965  Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Sunjammer", a marvellous tale of a 
     solar sail race which I edited for reprint in the anthology "Project 
     Solar Sail" (Roc Books, 19xx)
1965  Harlan Ellison's short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"
1965  Ron Goulart's short story "Calling Dr. Clockwork"
1965  Joseph Green's novelette "The Decision Makers"
1965  R. A. Lafferty's short story "In Our Block"
1965  Fritz Leiber's short story "The Good News Days"
1965  David I. Masson's short story "Traveller's Rest"
1965  Larry Niven's short story "Becalmed in Hell"
1965  Fred Saberhagen's novelette "The Masque of the Red Shift"
1965  James H. Schmitz's  novelette "Planet of Forgetting"
1965  Clifford Simak's short story "Over the River and Through the Woods"
1965  Vernor Vinge's short story "Apartness"
{the above 15 stories appear in  Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr [editors] 
"World's Best Science Fiction: 1966"}

Besides the Nebula Awards for Best Novel listed in the Books section of 
this web page, the following Nebula Awards and Nominations for short 
fiction were voted (in 1966) for these 1965 publications:
     Best SF Novella
1965  Brian Aldiss' "The Saliva Tree" (co-winner)
1965  Roger Zelazny's "He Who Shapes" (co-winner)
1965  Avram Davidson's "Rogue Dragon" (nominee)
1965  Samuel Delany's "The Ballad of Beta-2" (nominee)
1965  C. C. MacApp's "The Mercurymen" (nominee)
1965  Frederik Pohl's "Under Two Moons" (nominee)
1965  A. E. Van Vogt & James H. Schmitz's "Research Alpha" (nominee)
     Best SF Novelette
1965  Roger Zelazny's "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His 
          Mouth" (winner)
1965  James Blish and Norman Knight's "The Shipwrecked Hotel" (nominee)
1965  Jonathan Brand's "Vanishing Point"
1965  Thomas M. Disch's "102 H-Bombs" (nominee)
1965  R. C. Fitzpatrick's "Half a Loaf" (nominee)
1965  Joseph Green's  "The Decision Makers" (nominee)
1965  Norman Kagan's "At the Institute" (nominee)
1965  Norman Kagan's "The Earth Merchant" (nominee)
1965  Norman Kagan's "Laugh Along with Franz" (nominee)
1965  Michael Karageorge's "The Life of Your Time" (nominee)
1965  Fritz Leiber's "Four Ghosts in Hamlet" (nominee)
1965  E. Clayton McCarty's "Small One" (nominee)
1965  Mack Reynolds' "Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" (nominee)
1965  Fred Saberhagen's "The Masque of the Red Shift"
1965  James H. Schmitz's "Goblin Nights" (nominee)
1965  James H. Schmitz's  "Planet of Forgetting"
1965  James Schutz's "Maiden Voyage" (nominee)
1965  Robert Sheckley's "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" (nominee)
1965  William Tenn's "The Masculinist Revolt" (nominee)
     Best SF Short Story
1965  Harlan Ellison's "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (winner)
[and there were 30 nominees]


1966  the bookazine anthology "Orbit" is launched by Damon Knight

Summer 1966  Health Knowledge, Inc. publishes "Startling Mystery" under 
editor Robert A. W. Lowndes (until March 1971)

1966  The first Nebula Awards Banquet, held every year thereafter
Besides the Nebula Awards for Best Novel listed in the Books section of 
this web page, the following Nebula Awards and Nominations for short 
fiction were voted (in 1967) for these 1966 publications:
     Best SF Novella
1966  Jack Vance's "The Last Castle" (winner)
1966  Avram Davidson's "Clash of Star Kings" (nominee)
1966  Charles L. Harness's "The Alchemist" (nominee)
     Best SF Novelette
1966  Gordon R. Dickson's "Call Him Lord" (winner)
1966  Robert M. Green, Jr.'s "Apology to Inky" (nominee)
1966  Charles L. Harness' "An Ornament to His Profession" (nominee)
1966  Hayden Howard's "The Eskimo Invasion" (nominee)
1966  Roger Zelazny's "The Moment of the Storm" (nominee)
     Best SF Short Story
1966  Richard McKenna's "The Secret Place" (winner)
1966  Brian Aldiss' "Man in His Time" (nominee)
1966  Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days" (nominee)

1966  Health Knowledge, Inc. publishes the "Famous Science Fiction" under 
editor Robert A. W. Lowndes (until 1969)

1966: Tricon, the Twenty-Fourth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Cleveland, Ohio, (Sheraton-Cleveland), Chaired by Ben Jason, 
L. Sprague de Camp as Guest of Honor, 850 members attending.
Besides the Hugo Awards for Best Novel, listed in the section of this page 
about Books, the following Hugo Awards and Nominations were made for 
   Best SF Novelette:
1966  Jack Vance's "The Last Castle" (winner)
1966  Gordon R. Dickson's "Call Him Lord" (nominee)
1966  Robert M. Green, Jr.'s "Apology to Inky" (nominee)
1966  Charles L. Harness's "The Alchemist" (nominee)
1966  Charles L. Harness' "An Ornament to His Profession" (nominee)
1966  Hayden Howard's "The Eskimo Invasion" (nominee)
1966  Thomas Burnett Swann's "The Manor of Rose" (nominee)
1966  Roger Zelazny's "For a Breath I Tarry" (nominee)
1966  Roger Zelazny's "The Moment of the Storm" (nominee)
   Best SF Short Story:
1966  Larry Niven's "The Neutron Star" (winner)
1966  Brian Aldiss' "Man in His Time" (nominee)
1966  Harlan Ellison's "Delusions for a Dragon Slayer" (nominee)
1966  Raymond F. Jones' "Rat race" (nominee)
1966  Richard McKenna's "The Secret Place" (nominee)
1966  Fred Saberhagen' "Mr. Jester" (nominee)
1966  Roger Zelazny's "Comes Now the Power" (nominee)

1966  Bob Shaw's "The Light of Other Days" in "Analog", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

1966  Brian Aldiss' short story "Confluence"
1966  Dick Allen's short story "When I First Read"
1966  Hillary Bailey's short story "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner"
1966  J. G. Ballard's short story "The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D"
1966  J. G. Ballard's short story "You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe"
1966  Donald Barthelme's short story "The Balloon"
1966  William Burroughs' short story "They Do Not Always Remember"
1966  Hortense Calisher's short story "Journey from Ellipsia"
1966  Samuel Delany's short story "The Star Pit"
1966  Sonya Dorman's short story "When I Was Miss Dow"
1966  Carol Emshwiller's short story "Chicken Icarus"
1966  Charles L. Harness' short story "An Ornament to His Profession"
1966  Harvey Jacobs' short story "In Seclusion"
1966  R. A. Lafferty's short story "Narrow Valley"
1966  R. A. Lafferty's short story "The Primary Education of the Camiroi"
1966  Tommaso Landolfi's short story "Gogol's Wife"
1966  Fritz Leiber's short story "The Winter Flies"
1966  George MacBeth's short story "Crab-Apple Crisis"
1966  Katherine MacLean's short story "The Other"
1966  Henri Michaux's short story "And More Changes Still"
1966  Kit Reed's short story "The Food Farm"
1966  Bob Shaw's short story "The Light of Other Days"
1966  Peter Tate's short story "Beyond the Weeds"
1966  Gilbert Thomas' short story "Luana"
1966  John Updike's short story "During the Jurassic"
{the above 25 stories appear in Judith Merrill [editor] "Year's Best SF: 
12th Annual Edition"}

1966  Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
        later adapted into the film Bladerunner (1982)
1966  Brian Aldiss' "Amen and Out" 
1966  Paul Ash's "The Wing of a Bat" 
1966  Avram Davidson's "Bumberboom" 
1966  R. A. Lafferty's "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" 
1966  Michael Moorcock's "Behold the Man" 
1966  Diana Plachta's "The Man from When" 
1966  Frederik Pohl's "Day Million" 
1966  Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days"
1966  A. A. Walde's "Bircher" 
1966  Roger Zelazny's "For a Breath I Tarry" 
1966  Roger Zelazny's "The Keys to December" 
{the above 12 stories appear in  Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr [editors] 
"World's Best Science Fiction: 1967"}


1967  Ed Ferman, son of the Publisher, becomes editor of "F&SF"

1967  The French science fiction magazine "Horizons du Fantastique" is launched

1967: Nycon III, the Twenty-Fifth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in New York, (Statler-Hilton Hotel), Chaired by Ted White and Dave VanAmam, 
Lester del Rey as Pro Guest of Honor, Bob Tucker as Fan Guest of Honor, 
1500 members attending.  Besides the Hugo Award and noiminees for Best SF 
Novel (see the Major Books of the Year section), the short fiction 
Hugo Award winners and nominees were:
   Best SF Novella (first time for this category):
1967  Philip Jose Farmer's "Riders of the Purple Wage" (co-winner)
1967  Anne McCaffrey's "Weyr Search" (co-winner)
1967  Samuel R. Delany's "The Star-Pit" (nominee)
1967  Robert Silverberg's "Hawksbill Station" (nominee)
1967  Roger Zelazny's "Damnation Alley" (nominee)
        later adapted into the film Damnation Alley (19??)
   Best SF Novelette:
1967  Fritz Leiber's "Gonna Roll the Bones" (winner)
1967  Philip K. Dick's "Faith of Our Fathers" (nominee)
1967  Harlan Ellison's "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" (nominee)
1967  Andre Norton's "Wizard's World" (nominee)
   Best SF Short Story:
1967  Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" (Winner)
1967  Samuel R. Delany's "Aye, and Gomorrah" (nominee)
1967  Larry Niven's "The Jigsaw Man" (nominee)

1967  Samuel R. Delany's "The Star Pit" in "Worlds of Tomorrow", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award

Oct 1967  Anne McCaffrey's novelette "Weyr Search" in "Analog"

Dec 1967  Anne McCaffrey's serial "Dragonrider" begins in "Analog", later 
combined with Weyr Search" as the Ballentine paperback of "Dragonrider"

Dec 1967  Norman Spinrad's controversial "Bug Jack Baron" serial begins in 
"New Worlds"

1967  J. G. Ballard's Short Story "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald 
          Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race"
1967  Ben Bova's Short Story "Fifteen Miles"
1967  A. Bertram Chandler's Short Story "The Left-Hand Way"
1967  Harlan Ellison's Short Story "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"
1967  Fred Hoyle's Short Story "Blackmail"
1967  Keith Laumer's Short Story "The Last Command"
1967  Fritz Leiber's Short Story "Answering Service"
1967  Kris Neville's Short Story "The Forest of Zil"
1967  Kit Reed's Short Story "The Vine"
1967  Frank M. Robinson's Short Story "The Wreck of the Ship 'John B'"
1967  C. C. Shackleton's Short Story "Ultimate Construction"
1967  Robert Silverberg's Short Story "Hawksbill Station"
1967  John T. Sladek's Short Story "1937 A.D.!"
1967  James Thurber's Short Story "Interview with a Lemming"
1967  Gray Wright's Short Story "Mirror of Ice"
{the above 15 stories appeared in Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss [editors]
"Best SF: 1967"

1967  Brian Aldiss' Short Story "Full Sun" 
1967  Isaac Asimov's Short Story "The Billiard Ball"
1967  D. G. Compton's Short Story "It's Smart to Have an English Address" 
1967  Samuel R. Delany's Short Story "Driftglass"
1967  Thomas M. Disch's Short Story "The Number You Have Reached"
1967  Harlan Ellison's Short Story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
1967  Ron Goulart's Short Story "The Sword Swallower"
1967  Colin Kapp's Short Story "Ambassador at Verdammt"
1967  R. A. Lafferty's Short Story "The Man Who Never Was" 
1967  R. A. Lafferty's Short Story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne" 
1967  Larry Niven's Short Story "Handicap" 
1967  Andrew J. Offutt's Short Story "Population Implosion"
1967  Keith Roberts' Short Story "Coranda"
1967  Robert Silverberg's Short Story "Hawksbill Station"
1967  Richard Wilson's Short Story "See Me Not"
1967  Roger Zelazny's Short Story "The Man Who Loved the Faioli"
{the above 16 stories of 1967 appear in  Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr [editors] 
"World's Best Science Fiction: 1968"}

Besides the Nebula Awards for Best SF Novel, listed in the section above on Major 
Books of the Year, 1967 Nebula Awards and Nominees included:
        Best SF Novella (17,500-40,000 words):
     1967  Michael Moorcock's "Behold the Man" (winner)
     1967  Philip Jose Farmer's "Riders of the Purple Wage" (nominee)
     1967  Ann McCaffrey's "Weyr Search" (nominee)
     1967  Robert Silverberg's "Hawksbill Station" (nominee)
     1967  Theodore Sturgeon's "If All Men were Brothers, Would You Let 
               One Marry Your Sister" (nominee)
        Best SF Novelette (7,500-17,500 words):
     1967  Fritz Leiber's "Gonna Roll the Bones" (winner)
     1967  Harlan Ellison's "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" (nominee)
     1967  Larry Niven's "Flatlander" (nominee)
     1967  Roger Zelazny's "The Keys to December" (nominee)
     1967  Roger Zelazny's "This Mortal Mountain" (nominee)
        Best SF Short Story (7,500 words or under):
     1967  Samuel R. Delany's "Aye, And Gomorrah" (winner)
     1967  Reginald Bretnor's "Earthwoman" (nominee)
     1967  Samuel R. Delany's "Driftglass" (nominee)
     1967  Fritz Leiber's "Answering Service" (nominee)
     1967  Theodore Thomas' "The Doctor" (nominee)
     1967  Kate Wilhelm's "Baby, You Were Great" (nominee)


1968  the Spanish magazine "Neuva Dimension" is launched

1968  the American journal "Locus" starts production

1968  Lester del Rey hired as Assistant Editor at "Galaxy" and its sister 
magazines (until 1969)

Mar 1968  James Tiptree, Jr.'s "Birth of a Salesman" in "Analog" is the 
debut of this fine writer, later revealed to be a pseudonym of Alice Sheldon

Apr 1968  Clifford D. Simak's serial "Goblin Reservation" begins in 
"Galaxy", unusual cross-genre science/magic novel starring William Shakespeare

June 1968  "Galaxy" magazine under Frederik Pohl speeds up from bimonthly 
to monthly publication

1968: Baycon, the Twenty-Sixth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Oakland, California, (Hotel Claremont), Chaired by Bill Donaho and Alva 
Rogers and J. Ben Stark, Philip Jose Farmer as Pro Guest of Honor, Walter 
J. Daughterty as Fan Guest of Honor, 1430 members attending.
Besides the Hugo Awards for Best Novel, listed in the section of this page 
about Books, the following Hugo Awards and Nominations were made for 
   Best SF Novella:
     1968  Robert Silverberg's "Nightwings" (winner)
     1968  Samuel R. Delany's "Lines of Power" (nominee)
     1968  Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonrider" (nominee)
     1968  Dean McLaughlin's "Hawk Among the Sparrows" (nominee)
   Best SF Novelette:
     1968  Poul Anderson's "The Sharing of Flesh" (winner)
     1968  Brian Aldiss' "Total Environment" (nominee)
     1968  Piers Anthony's "Getting Through University" (nominee)
     1968  Richard Wilson's "Mother to the World" (nominee)
   Best SF Short Story:
     1968  Harlan Ellison's "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of 
               the World" (winner)
     1968  Terry Carr's "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" (nominee)
     1968  Betsy Curtis' "The Steiger Effect" (nominee)
     1968  Damon Knight's "Masks" (nominee)
     1968  Larry Niven's "All the Myriad Ways" (nominee)

1968  Joanna Russ's "The Barbarian" in "Orbit 3", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

Sep 1968  Robert Silverberg's "Nightwings" begins in "Galaxy"

Besides the Nebula Awards for Best SF Novel, listed in the section above on Major 
Books of the Year, 1968 Nebula Awards and Nominees included:
        Best SF Novella (17,500-40,000 words):
     1968  Ann McCaffrey's "Dragon Rider" (winner)
     1968  Samuel R. Delany's "Lines of Power" (nominee)
     1968  Keith Laumer's "The Day Beyond Forever" (nominee)
     1968  Dean McLaughlin's "Hawk Among the Sparrows" (nominee)
     1968  Robert Silverberg's "Nightwings" (nominee)
        Best SF Novelette (7,500-17,500 words):
     1968  Richard Wilson's "Mother to the World" (winner)
     1968  Brian Aldiss' "Total Environment" (nominee)
     1968  Poul Anderson's "The Sharing of Flesh" (nominee)
     1968  James Gunn's "The Listeners" (nominee)
     1968  H. H. Hollis' "The Guerilla Trees" (nominee)
     1968  Keith Laumer's "Once There Was a Giant" (nominee)
        Best SF Short Story (7,500 words or under):
     1968  Kate Wilhelm's "The Planners" (winner)
     1968  Poul Anderson's "Kyrie" (nominee)
     1968  Terry Carr's "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" (nominee)
     1968  H. H. Hollis' "Sword Game" (nominee)
     1968  Damon Knight's "Masks" (nominee)
     1968  Robert Taylor's "Idiot's Mate" (nominee)

1968  Isaac Asimov's Short Story "Segregationist"
1968  Roger Zelazny's Short Story "The Man Who Loved the Faioli"
1968  Stephen Goldin's Short Story "Sweet Dreams, Melissa"
1968  John D. MacDonald's Short Story "The Annex"
1968  David I. Masson's Short Story "Lost Ground"
1968  K. M. O'Donnell's Short Story "Final War"
1968  Kit Reed's Short Story "Golden Acres"
1968  Mack Reynolds' Short Story "Criminal in Utopia"
1968  Bob Shaw's Short Story "Appointment of Prila"
1968  Robert Sheckley's Short Story "Budget Planet"
1968  Robert Silverberg's Short Story "To the Dark Star"
1968  Theodore Sturgeon's Short Story "Like Young"
{the above 12 stories appeared in Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss [editors]
"Best SF: 1968"

1968  Brian Aldiss' Short Story "Total Environment"
1968  Brian Aldiss' Short Story "The Worm that Flies"
1968  Poul Anderson's Short Story "Kyrie"
1968  Terry Carr's Short Story "The Dance of the Changer and the Three"
1968  Samuel R. Delany's "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"
1968  Burt Filer's Short Story "Backtracked"
1968  H. H. Hollis' Short Story "Sword Game"
1968  Colin Kapp's Short Story "The Cloudbuilders"
1968  Damon Knight's Short Story "Masks"
1968  R. A. Lafferty's Short Story "The Grand Carcass"
1968  Fritz Leiber's Short Story "The Square Root of Brain"
1968  Katherine MacLean's Short Story "Fear Hound"
1968  Fred Saberhagen's Short Story "Starsong"
1968  Robert Sheckley's Short Story "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay"
1968  Sydney J. Van Scyoc's Short Story "A Visit to Cleveland General"
1968  Kurt Vonnegut's Short Story "Welcome to the Monkey House"
1968  Robert Silverberg's Short Story "Going Down Smooth"
1968  E. G. Von Wald's Short Story "Hemeac"
1968  Laurence Yep's Short Story "The Selchey Kids"
{the above 19 stories of 1968 appear in  Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr [editors] 
"World's Best Science Fiction: 1969"}


1969  Robert Guinn sells his chain of magazines to Universal Publishing and 
Distributing Company, which skips some issues of "Galaxy" and "If" and 
replaces Frederik Pohl with Ejler Jakobsson as Editor

1969  Sol Cohen, publisher of "Amazing" and "Fantastic" hires big-name fan 
Ted White as editor

1969  "Venture" magazine brefly revived.

1969  "Vision of Tomorrow", a British/Australian joint venture magazine, 
launched, has three issues in 1969; "Vision of Tomorrow" is the 
first to publish a story by Polish titan Stanislaw Lem

July 1969  Frank Herbert's serial "Dune Messiah" starts in "Galaxy"

1969: St.Louiscon, the Twenty-Seventh World Science Fiction Convention, 
in St.Louis, Missouri (Chase-Park Plaza), Chaired by Ray Fisher and Joyce 
Fisher, Jack Gaughan as Pro Guest of Honor, Eddie Jones as TAFF, 
1543 members attending. Besides the Hugo Awards for Best Novel, listed in the section of this page 
about Books, the following Hugo Awards and Nominations were made for 
   Best SF Novella:
     1969  Fritz Leiber's "Ship of Shadows"  (winner)
     1969  James Blish's "We All Die Naked" (nominee)
     1969  Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog" (nominee)
     1969  Anne McCaffrey's "Dramatic Mission" (nominee)
     1969  Robert Silverberg's "To Jorslem" (nominee)
   Best SF Short Story:
     1969  Samuel R. Delany's "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (winner)
     1969  Gregory Benford's "Deeper Than Darkness" (nominee)
     1969  Ursula K. Le Guin's "Winter's King" (nominee)
     1969  Larry Niven's "Not Long Before the End" (nominee)
     1969  Robert Silverberg's "Passengers"  (nominee)

1969  Robert Silverberg's "Sundance" in "F&SF", 
Richard Lupoff contends that this should have won the Hugo Award for best 
short story

Besides the Nebula Awards for Best SF Novel, listed in the section above on Major 
Books of the Year, Nebula Awards and Nominees included:
        Best SF Novella (17,500-40,000 words):
     1969  Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog" (winner)
     1969  Charles L. Harness' "Probable Cause" (nominee)
     1969  Fritz Leiber's "Ship of Shadows" (nominee)
     1969  Ann McCaffrey's "Dramatic Mission" (nominee)
     1969  Robert Silverberg's "To Jorslem" (nominee)
        Best SF Novelette (7,500-17,500 words):
     1969  Samuel R. Delany's "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (winner)
     1969  Gregory Benford's "Deeper Than Darkness" (nominee)
     1969  Ursula K. Le Guin's "Nine Lives" (nominee)
     1969  Norman Spinrad's "The Big Flash" (nominee)
        Best SF Short Story (7,500 words or under):
     1969  Robert Silverberg's "Passengers" (winner)
     1969  Harlan Ellison's "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" (nominee)
     1969  Larry Niven's "Not Long Before the End" (nominee)
     1969  Theodore Sturgeon's "The Man Who Loved Learning" (nominee)
     1969  James Tiptree Jr.'s "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" (nominee)


1970  "Galaxy" and "If", under Universal Publishing and Distributing Company, 
and Ejler Jakobsson, slip from monthly to bimonthly

1970  "Venture" magazine dies a second time

1970  "Vision of Tomorrow", a British/Australian joint venture magazine, 
collapses after three issues in 1969 and six in 1970

Apr 1970  British magazine "New Worlds", under Michael Moorcock, dies after 
being kept afloat by an Arts Council grant.  Moorcock transforms the 
remnants into a remarkable book series.

July 1970  Robert Heinlein's serial "I Will Fear No Evil" begins in "Galaxy"

1970: Heicon '70, the Twenty-Eighth World Science Fiction Convention, 
in Heidelberg, Germany (Heidelberg Stadthalle), Chaired by Manfred Kage, E. 
C. Tubb as UK Guest of Honor, Robert Silverberg as US Guest of Honor, 
Herbert W. Franke as German Guest of Honor, Elliot K. Shorter as Fan Guest of Honor,
620 members attending.  John Brunner, as toastmaster, surprised his German 
and English-speaking fans alike by emceeing in flawless German.  Besides 
the Hugo Awards for Best SF Novel, listed in the section above on Major 
Books of the Year, Hugo Awards and Nominees included:
        Best SF Novella:
     1970  Fritz Leiber's "Ill met in Lankhmar" (winner)
     1970  Harlan Ellison's "The Region Between" (nominee)
     1970  Dean R. Koontz's "Beast Child" (nominee)
     1970  Robert Silverberg's "The World Outside" (nominee)
     1970  Clifford Simak's "The Thing in the Stone" (nominee)
        Best SF Short Story:
     1970  Theodore Sturgeon's "Slow Sculpture" (winner)
     1970  Ben Bova & Harlan Ellison's "Brillo" (nominee)
     1970  Gordon Dickson's "Jean Dupres" (nominee)
     1970  Keith Laumer's "In the Queue" (nominee)

Besides the Nebula Awards for Best SF Novel, listed in the section above on Major 
Books of the Year, Nebula Awards and Nominees included:
        Best SF Novella (17,500-40,000 words):
     1970  Fritz Leiber's "Ill met in Lankhmar" (winner)
     1970  Poul Anderson's "Fatal Fulfillment" (nominee)
     1970  Harlan Ellison's "The Region Between" (nominee)
     1970  Clifford Simak's "The Thing in the Stone" (nominee)
     1970  Kate Wilhelm's "April Fools' Day Forever" (nominee)
        Best SF Novelette (7,500-17,500 words):
     1970  Theodore Sturgeon's "Slow Sculpture" (winner)
     1970  Thomas M. Disch's "The Asian Shore" (nominee)
     1970  Gordon Eklund's "Dear Aunt Annie"
     1970  Gerald Jonas' "The Shaker Revival" (nominee)
     1970  Harlan Ellison's "The Region Between" (nominee)
     1970  R. A. Lafferty's novelette "Continued on Next Rock" (nominee)
     1970  Joanna Russ' "The Second Inquisition" (nominee)
        Best SF Short Story (7,500 words or under):
     1970  No Award (winner)
     1970  Gardner Dozois' "A Dream at Noonday" (nominee)
     1970  Harry Harrison's "By the Falls" (nominee)
     1970  R. A. Lafferty's "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite" (nominee)
     1970  Keith Laumer's "In the Queue" (nominee)
     1970  James Sallis' "The Creation of Bennie Good" (nominee)
     1970  Kate Wilhelm's "A Cold Dark Night with Snow" (nominee)
     1970  Gene Wolfe's "The Island of Dr. Death" (nominee)

Some of the best short fiction of the year 1970 included:
1970  Isaac Asimov's short story "Waterclap"
1970  Neil Barrett Jr.'s short story "Greyspun's Gift"
1970  Gregory Benford's short story "Nobody Lives of Burton Street"
1970  Michael Coney's short story "Whatever Became of the McGowans"
1970  Gordon Eklund's novelette "Dear Aunt Annie"
1970  Ron Goulart's short story "Confessions"
1970  H. B. Hickey's short story "Gone Are the Lupo"
1970  Gerald Jonas' novelette "The Shaker Revival"
1970  R. A. Lafferty's novelette "Continued on Next Rock"
1970  Larry Niven's short story "Bird in the Hand"
1970  Arthur Sellings' short story "The Last Time Around"
1970  Bob Shaw's short story "Invasion of Privacy"
1970  Robert Silverberg's short story "Ishmael in Love"
1970  Clifford Simak's novella "The Thing in the Stone"
1970  Theodore Sturgeon's novella "Slow Sculpture"
{The above 15 stories may be found in Donald Wollheim & Terry Carr [editors]
"World's Best Science Fiction 1971"}

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Hotlinks to other Timeline pages of SF Chronology

|Introduction: Overview and Summary
|Prehistory: Ancient Precursors
|16th Century: Ariosto and Cyrano on the Moon
|17th Century: Literary Dawn
|18th Century: Literary Expansion
|19th Century: Victorian Explosion
|1890-1910: Into Our Century
|1910-1920: The Silver Age
|1920-1930: The Golden Age
|1930-1940: The Aluminum Age
|1940-1950: The Plutonium Age
|1950-1960: The Threshold of Space
|1960-1970: The New Wave (you are HERE)
|1970-1980: The Seventies
|1980-1990: The Eighties
|1990-2000: End of Millennium
|2000-2010: Future Prizewinners

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Where to Go for More: 51 Useful Reference Books

Beyond the World Wide Web... there is the library of old-fashioned books 
printed on paper.  I strongly recommend that you start or follow-up your 
explorations of this web site by consulting any or all of these outstanding 
sources:
     
ALDISS: "Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction", Brian W. 
     Aldiss (New York: Doubleday, 1973; Schocken Paperback, 1974)

ALLEN: "Science Fiction Reader's Guide", L. David Allen 
     (Centennial Press, 1974)

AMIS: "New Maps of Hell", Kingsley Amis (London: Gollancz, 1960; 
     New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960)

ASH1: "Who's Who in Science Fiction", by Brian Ash (Taplinger, 1976)

ASH2: "The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", edited by Brian Ash 
     (Harmony Books, 1977)
   
ASHLEY: "The History of the Science Fiction Magazine" [3 volumes]
     (London: New English Library, 1974)

ASIMOV "Asimov on Science Fiction" (New York: Avon, 1981)

ATHELING: "The Issue at Hand", "William Atheling, Jr." [James Blish]
     (Chicago: Advent, 1964)

BARRON: "Anatomy of Wonder", edited by Neil Barron (Bowker, 1976)

BAXTER: "Science Fiction in the Cinema", John Baxter 
     (London: A. Zwemmer, 1970; New York: A. S. Barnes, 1970)
     
BERGONZI: "The Early H.G. Wells", Bernard Bergonzi 
     (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1961)

BLEILER: "The Checklist of Fantastic Literature" Everett F. Bleiler
     (Chicago: Shasta, 1948)

BRETNOR1: "Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Future", edited by 
     Reginald Bretnor (New York: Coward-McCann, 1953)

BRETNOR2: "The Craft of Science Fiction", Reginald Bretnor 
     (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)

BRINEY: "SF Bibliographies", Robert E. Briney & Edward Wood
     (Chicago: Advent, 1972)

CLARESON1: "SF: The Other Side of Realism", edited by Thomas D. Clareson
     (Gregg Press, 1978)

CLARESON2: "Extrapolation, 1959-1969", edited by Thomas D. Clareson
     (Bowling Green, Ohio: University Popular Press, 1971)

CLARKE: "The Tale of the Future", I. F. Clarke 
     (London: The Library Association, 1961, 1972)

CONTENTO: "Index to the Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections", 
     William Contento G.K. Hall, 1978)

DAY: "Index to the Science Fiction Magazine: 1926-50", Donald B. Day
     (Portland, Oregon: Perri Press, 1952)

DeCAMP: "Science Fiction Handbook", L. Sprague DeCamp
     (New York: Hermitage House, 1953)

ELLIK: "The Universes of E. E. Smith", Ron Ellik & Bill Evans
     (Chicago: Advent, 1966)

EVANS: "The Index of Science Fiction Magazines", Bill Evans with Jack Speer
     (Denver: Robert Peterson, 1946?)

FRANKLIN: "Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century",
     H. Bruce Franklin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966)

FREWIN: "One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration", Anthony Frewin
     (London: Jupiter Books, 1974)

GOODSTONE: "The Pulps", Tony Goodstone (New York: Chelsea House, 1970)

GUNN: "Alternate Worlds", James Gunn (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975)

HARRISON: "John W. Campbell: Collected Editorials from Analog", Harry Harrison
     (Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1966)
     
HOLMBERG: "Science Fiction History", John-Henri Holmberg
     (Vanersborg, Sweden: Askild & Karnekull, 1974)

KNIGHT: "In Search of Wonder", Damon Knight (Chicago: Advent, 1956; enlarged 1967)

KYLE: "A Pictorial History of Science Fiction", David Kyle
     (London: Hamlyn House, 1976)

LOCKE: "Worlds Apart", edited by George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972)

LUNDWALL: "Science Fiction: What It's All About", Sam J. Lundwall 
     (New York: Ace Books, 1971)

METCALF: "The Index of Science Fiction Magazines, 1951-1965", Norm Metcalf 
     (J. Ben Stark, 1968)

MILLIES: "Science Fiction Primer for Teachers", Suzanne Millies
     (Dayton OH: Pflaum, 1975)

MOSKOWITZ#1: "The Immortal Storm", Sam Moskowitz 
     (AFSO Press, 1954; Hyperion Press, 19??)

MOSKOWITZ#2: "Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction", 
     Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland & New York: World, 1963)

MOSKOWITZ#3: "Seekers of Tomorrow", Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland & New York: World, 1963)

NESFA: "Index to the Science Fiction Magazines", New England Science 
     Fiction Association (Cambridge MA: NESFA, 1971)

PERRY: "The Penguin Book of Comics", George Perry & Alan Aldridge
     (London: Penguin, 1971)
     
ROGERS: "A Requiem for Astounding", Alva Rogers (Chicago: Advent, 1964)

ROTTSTEINER: "The Science Fiction Book", Franz Rottsteiner 
     (London: Thames & Hudson, 1975)

SADOUL: "Hier, L'An 2000 [Illustrations from the Golden Age of Science Fiction]",
     Jaxques Sadoul (Paris: Editions Denoel, 1973)
     
STRAUSS: "The MIT Science Fiction Society's Index to the SF Magazines: 1951-64"
     Erwin S. Strauss (Cambridge MA: MIT Science Fiction Society, 1966)
     
TUCK: "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2nd Edition", 
     Donald H. Tuck (Hobart, Tasmania: Donald H. Tuck, 1959)

VERSINS: "Encyclopedie des l'utopie, des voyages extraordinaires et de la 
     science fiction", (Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme, 1972)

WAGGONER: "The Hills of Faraway", Diana Waggoner (Athenaeum, 1978)

WARNER: "All Our Yesterdays", Harry Warner, Jr. (Chicago: Advent, 1969)

WELLS: "Fictional Accounts of Trips to the Moon", Lester G. Wells
     (Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Library, 1962)

WILLIAMSON: "H.G. Wells: Critic of Progress", Jack Williamson
     (Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1973)

WOLLHEIM: "The Universe Makers", Donald A. Wollheim
     (New York: Harper & Row, 1971)

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