2019 in science fiction

In 2019 the following events occurred in science fiction.

Deaths

• April 1 – Vonda N. McIntyre, American writer (born 1948)^[1]
• Erik Olin Wright, sociologist and futurologist
• Yuri Artsutanov, pioneer of the space elevator idea
• Carol Emshwiller, writer

Literary releases

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Novels

• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
• Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald
• Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey
• Motherland by Lauren Beukes
• English translation of The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
• Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
• Dark Age by Pierce Brown
• English translation of The Redemption of Time by Baoshu
• Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett
• Hierophant by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
• Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess
• The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Alliance Rising by C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher
• Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
• Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
• Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
• The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
• Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

Stories collections

• American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s by Gary K. Wolfe (ed.)
• Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu (ed.)

Films

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Original

 

Actor Brad Pitt at NASA Headquarters promoting film Ad Astra

• 3022
• 9
• Ad Astra
• Alita: Battle Angel^[5]
• The Blackout
• Boss Level
• Brightburn^[6]
• Captive State
• Chaos Walking
• Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration
• Escape Room^[7]
• Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
• Fast Color^[8]
• Gemini Man
• Goalkeeper of the Galaxy
• Happy Death Day 2U
• I Am Mother
• Io
• Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
• Kizhakku Africavil Raju
• Lucy in the Sky
• Princess Principal
• Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System
• Relive
• Serenity
• Short Circuit
• Spies in Disguise
• The Last Boy^[9]
• Paradise Hills
• Proxima
• Ultraman R/B the Movie
• The Vast of Night
• The Wandering Earth
• Warriors of Future

Sequels, spin-offs and remakes

 

Film set of Captain Marvel

• Avengers: Endgame
• Captain Marvel
• Code 8
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection
• Glass^[10]
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters
• Hellboy
• Iron Sky: The Coming Race^[11]
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
• Men in Black: International
• Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
• Reign of the Supermen
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Terminator: Dark Fate
• Shazam!
• X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Television

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New series

• My Absolute Boyfriend
• The Boys
• Doom Patrol
• Gen:Lock
• Good Omens
• His Dark Materials
• The I-Land
• Memories of the Alhambra
• October Faction
• The Passage
• Project Blue Book
• Roswell, New Mexico
• See
• Snowpiercer
• Star Trek: Picard
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian
• Swamp Thing
• The War of the Worlds (British TV series)
• The War of the Worlds (American TV series)
• Warrior Nun
• Watchmen
• Weird City

Returning series

• The 100, season 6
• 3%, season 3
• Black Mirror, season 5
• Cloak & Dagger, season 2
• Cosmos: Possible Worlds
• Dark, season 2
• The Expanse, season 4
• The Handmaid's Tale, season 3^[14]
• Jessica Jones, season 3
• Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
• Krypton, season 2
• Legion, season 3
• Nightflyers, season 2
• Power Rangers Beast Morphers
• The Orville, season 2
• The Punisher, season 2
• Runaways, season 2
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, season 2
• Star Trek: Discovery, season 2
• Stranger Things, season 3
• Super Sentai Strongest Battle
• The Twilight Zone
• Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy
• Ultraman
• Ultraman New Generation Chronicle
• Van Helsing, season 4
• Young Justice, season 3

Video games

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• Anthem
• Apex Legends
• Control
• Crackdown 3
• Gears 5
• Halo Infinite
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• The Outer Worlds
• Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• The Surge 2

Awards

• Sorry to Bother You made it onto the list of Top Ten Independent Films of 2018 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures

Other events

• Mir Fantastiki magazine was relaunched by the new publisher, Hobby World.

References

1. Holland, Steve (4 April 2019). "Vonda N McIntyre obituary | Steve Holland". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
2. Liptak, Andrew (2018-12-30). "All the science fiction and fantasy books we're looking forward to in 2019". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
3. "21 of the Most Anticipated Sci Fi Books of 2019". BookBub. 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
4. Orf, Darren (2019-01-14). "Best Sci-Fi Movies 2019 – New Sci-Fi Movies". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
5. Alita: Battle Angel, retrieved 2019-02-01
6. Brightburn, retrieved 2019-02-02
7. Escape Room, retrieved 2019-02-01
8. Fast Color, retrieved 2019-02-01
9. The Last Boy, retrieved 2019-02-01
10. Glass, retrieved 2019-02-01
11. Iron Sky The Coming Race, retrieved 2019-02-01
12. Campbell, Maude (2019-01-16). "Best Sci-Fi TV Shows 2019 – New Sci-Fi TV Shows". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
13. Lawrence, Britt. "Netflix Is Going Hard On Sci-Fi With Three Awesome New Shows". Cinemablend. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
14. Sandwell, Ian (2019-01-11). "The Handmaid's Tale season 3: Release date, cast, spoilers". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
15. Patrick, Dennis (2019-02-03). "Top Upcoming Sci-Fi Video Games Of 2019". Gameranx. Retrieved 2019-02-06.

See also

Preceded by 2018

2019

Succeeded by 2020