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The year 1959 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

Deaths

Edwin Balmer (b. 1883)
Otfrid von Hanstein (b. 1869)

Literary releases

Novels

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Beast Master by Andre Norton
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Canopy of Time by Brian Aldiss
Dodkin's Job by Jack Vance
Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson
The Duplicated Man by James Blish and Robert Lowndes.^{[nb 1]}
Echo in the Skull by John Brunner
The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson
Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton
Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell
Ossian's Ride by Fred Hoyle
The Outward Urge by John Wyndham
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
The War Against the Rull by A. E. van Vogt
Wolfbane by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
The World Swappers by John Brunner

Short stories

Movies

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock	Sidney Miller	Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon	United States	Comedy
4D Man	Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr.	Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon	United States	Action Horror Romance Thriller
The Angry Red Planet	Ib Melchior	Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden	United States	Adventure Horror
The Atomic Submarine	Spencer Gordon Bennet	Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey	United States	Thriller
Attack of the Giant Leeches	Bernard Kowalski	Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers	United States	Horror
Battle Beyond the Sun	Mikhail Kozyry	Aleksandr Shvorin, Ivan Pereverzhev	Soviet Union	Adventure
Battle in Outer Space (a.k.a Uchû sai sensô)	Ishirō Honda	Ryō Ikebe, Koreya Senda	Japan	Action
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (a.k.a Caltiki, il mostro immortale)	Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava	John Merivale,Didi Perego,Gérard Herter,Giacomo Rossi-Stuart	Italy	Horror
The Cosmic Man	Herbert Greene	Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene	United States	Adventure Thriller ^[1]
First Man into Space	Robert Day	Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards	United Kingdom	Drama Horror ^[2]
The Giant Gila Monster	Ray Kellogg	Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Fred Graham	United States	Horror Thriller
Have Rocket, Will Travel	David Lowell Rich	Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita	United States	Comedy Family
The Head (a.k.a Die Nackte und der Satan)	Victor Trivas	Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach	West Germany	Horror ^[3]^[4]
The Incredible Petrified World	Jerry Warren	John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke	United States	Action Adventure Thriller
Invisible Invaders	Edward L. Cahn	John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine	United States	Horror
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Henry Levin	Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker	United States	Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
The Killer Shrews	Ray Kellogg	James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude	United States	Horror
The Manster	George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane	Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern	Japan United States	Horror (released in U.S. in 1962)^[5]^[6]^[7]
The Man Who Could Cheat Death	Terence Fisher	Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee	United Kingdom	Drama Horror ^{[nb 2]}
The Monster of Piedras Blancas	Irvin Berwick	Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon	United States	Horror
Nebo Zovyot (a.k.a Battle Beyond the Sun)	Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr	Ivan Pereverzev	Soviet Union	Adventure
On the Beach	Stanley Kramer	Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire	United States	Drama Romance
Plan 9 from Outer Space	Edward D. Wood Jr.	Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott, Vampira	United States	Horror
Return of the Fly	Edward Bernds	Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton	United States	Drama Fantasy Horror
Invasion of the Animal People (a.k.a Terror in the Midnight Sun)	Virgil W. Vogel	Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine	United States Sweden	Horror
Teenagers from Outer Space	Tom Graeff	David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn	United States	Horror Thriller
The Tingler	William Castle	Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman	United States	Horror ^[8]
The Giant Behemoth (a.k.a. Behemoth, the Sea Monster or The Behemoth)	Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox	Gene Evans, André Morell	United States	Horror
The Ugly Duckling	Lance Comfort	Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith	United Kingdom	Comedy
The Wasp Woman	Roger Corman	Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve Sota	United States	Horror
The World, the Flesh and the Devil	Ranald MacDougall	Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer	United States	Drama Romance

Awards

A Case of Conscience by James Blish won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.^[9]

Notes

^ First published in Dynamic Science Fiction in August 1953.
^ Remake of The Man in Half Moon Street.

References

^ Horwath, Alexander; Elsaesser, Thomas; King, Noel (2004). The last great American picture show: new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 168–169. ISBN 90-5356-631-7.
^ Pomerance, Murray (2004). Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen. SUNY Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 0-7914-5940-3.
^ Frayling, Christopher (2005). Mad, bad and dangerous?: the scientist and the cinema. Reaktion Books. p. 27. ISBN 1-86189-255-1.
^ Mannikka, Eleanor (2008). "The Head". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
^ Hogan, David J. (1997). Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film. McFarland. p. 13. ISBN 0-7864-0474-4.
^ Erickson, Hal. "The Manster". AllMovie. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
^ "双頭の殺人鬼 : 作品情報".
^ "The Tingler (1959) - William Castle | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
^ "1959 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 26 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.