2014 in science fiction

The year 2014 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Deaths

• February 16 : Michael Shea, American writer (born in 1946).
• March 18 : Lucius Shepard, American writer (born in 1943).
• May 30 : Michael Szameit, German writer (born in 1950).
• June 1 : Jay Lake, American writer (born in 1964).
• June 15 : Daniel Keyes, American writer (born in 1927).
• June 30 : Frank M. Robinson, American writer (born in 1926).
• July 13 : Thomas Berger, American writer (born in 1924).

Events

• End of the British magazine SciFiNow.

Literary releases

Novels

• Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer.
• Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie.
• (French) Imperfect Sword, by John G. Hemry.
• (French) Steadfast, by John G. Hemry.
• (French) Involution, by Johan Heliot.
• (German) Der Jesus-Deal, by Andreas Eschbach.
• (French) Maul: Lockdown, by Joe Schreiber.
• Mentats of Dune, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
• Catacombes and Hooligans, the two first novels of the trilogy (French) Les Particules réfractaires, by Mikhaïl W. Ramseier.

Comics

• Brane Zéro, tome 1, first volume of the serie (French) Brane Zéro, written and drawn by (French) Mathieu Thonon.
• Réalité, second volume of the serie (French) Entre-Monde, by Yanouch.

Audiovisual outputs

Films

• The Amazing Spider-Man 2, by Marc Webb.
• The Anomaly, by Noel Clarke.
• Area 51, by Oren Peli.
• Divergent, by Neil Burger.
• Edge of Tomorrow, by Doug Liman.
• Ex Machina, by Alex Garland.
• Extraterrestrial, by Colin Minihan.
• Guardians of the Galaxy, by James Gunn.
• The Giver, by Phillip Noyce.
• Godzilla, by Gareth Edwards.
• Interstellar, by Christopher Nolan.
• The Maze Runner, by Wes Ball.
• Lucy, by Luc Besson.
• Monsters: Dark Continent, by Tom Green.
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, by Matt Reeves.
• Predestination, by the Spierig brothers.
• Project Almanac, by Dean Israelite.
• The Last Druid: Garm Wars, by Mamoru Oshii.
• RoboCop, by José Padilha.
• Schnitzel, by Asaf Epstein.
• Space Station 76, by Jack Plotnick.
• Transcendence, by Wally Pfister.
• Transformers: Age of Extinction, by Michael Bay.
• Zero Theorem, by Terry Gilliam.

Television series

• The 100, by Kass Morgan and Jason Rothenberg.
• 2Day, created by Ben Wiener and Manu De Maleprade, directed by Ben Wiener.
• Ascension, by Philip Levens and Adrian A. Cruz.
• Star Wars Rebels : season #1.
• Z Nation, by Karl Schaefer and Craig Engler.

Video games

• Elite: Dangerous, developed and edited by Frontier Developments.
• Wasteland 2, developed and edited by inXile Entertainment and Obsidian Entertainment.

Awards

Hugo Award

Nebula Award

Locus Award

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Award

Prix Rosny-Aîné Award

BSFA Award

Sidewise Award for Alternate History

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Edward E. Smith Memorial Award

Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis

Seiun Award

See also

• 2014 in science
• 2015 in science fiction