2017 in science fiction

The year 2017 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Events

Fans line up at the entrance to Star Wars Celebration in Orlando to celebrate 40 years of Star Wars

• May 25 – 40th anniversary of Star Wars was celebrated by fans worldwide. The 2017 Star Wars Celebration convention in Orlando was dedicated to this date,[1] and several anniversary collectibles were released.[2]
• December 14 – Disney announced it would acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. The deal includes rights for many science fiction franchises, such as Avatar, Alien, Futurama, Firefly, among others.

Deaths

• January 19 – Hilary Bailey, writer, critic and editor (The Fall of Frenchy Steiner, Frankenstein's Bride, Mrs Rochester, Fifty-First State)
• January 25 – John Hurt, English actor (Alien, Contact, Snowpiercer, Nineteen Eighty-Four, V for Vendetta)
• February 7 – Richard Hatch, American actor (Battlestar Galactica)
• February 10 – Edward Bryant, writer
• February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor (The Terminator, Weird Science, Aliens, Predator 2, Edge of Tomorrow)
• March 22 – Daisuke Satō, writer (Highschool of the Dead, Imperial Guards, Seito, Red Sun Black Cross)
• March 26 – Marie Jakober, writer (The Mind Gods, The Black Chalice)
• April 5 – Huang Yi, writer (A Step into the Past)
• April 22 – William Hjortsberg, writer (Gray Matters, Legend)
• April 28 – Grania Davis, writer and editor (The Boss in the Wall, a.o.)
• June 9 – Adam West, American actor (Batman, Robinson Crusoe on Mars)
• July 15 – Martin Landau, American actor (Space: 1999)
• July 27 – H. A. Hargreaves, writer, professor
• August 3 – Jack Wodhams, writer (Ryn, Mostly Meantime)
• August 13 – Victor Pemberton, scriptwriter, television producer (Doctor Who)
• August 19 – Brian Aldiss, English writer (Super-Toys Last All Summer Long)
• August 31 – Richard Anderson, American actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Forbidden Planet)
• September 8 – Jerry Pournelle, writer, scientist, journalist
• September 10 – Len Wein, American comic book writer (Swamp Thing, Wolverine)
• September 15 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (Alien, Escape from New York, Repo Man, The Avengers)
• September 24 – Kit Reed, writer (The Attack of the Giant Baby, Thinner Than Thou, The Night Children, The Baby Merchant)
• October 9 – ElizaBeth Gilligan, author, former secretary for the Science Fiction Writers of America board of directors
• October 9 – Yoji Kondo aka. Eric Kotani, writer, editor and astrophysicist (Star Trek: Death of a Neutron Star, Requiem)
• October 17 – Julian May, writer (Saga of Pliocene Exile, Galactic Milieu Series)
• November 25 – Rance Howard, American actor (Independence Day, Cocoon, Mars Attacks!)

Literary releases

• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
• The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
• Empire Games by Charles Stross
• Forgotten Worlds, The Silence #2 by D. Nolan Clark
• Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
• Seek and Destroy, America Rising #2 by William C. Dietz
• The Stone Sky, The Broken Earth #3 by N. K. Jemisin
• Vanguard: The Genesis Fleet by Jack Campbell
• Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card

Films

Original

• Attraction, by Fyodor Bondarchuk
• Battle of Memories, by Leste Chen
• Before We Vanish, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa[3]
• Dance to Death, by Andrei Volgin
• Life, by Daniel Espinosa
• Orbita 9 by Hatem Khraiche
• OtherLife, by Ben C. Lucas
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, by Luc Besson

Sequels, spin-offs and remakes

• Alien Covenant, by Ridley Scott
• Blade Runner 2049, by Denis Villeneuve
• Ghost in the Shell, by Rupert Sanders
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi, by Rian Johnson
• War for the Planet of the Apes, by Matt Reeves

Television

• 12 Monkeys (season 3)
• Adventure Time (seasons 9+10)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5
• Big Hero 6: The Series
• Colony (TV series) (season 2)
• The Defenders
• Dimension 404
• The Expanse (season 2)
• Extinct
• The Flash season 4
• The Gifted
• Gotham (season 4)
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (season 2)
• I'm Not a Robot
• Infini-T Force
• Inhumans
• Iron Fist
• Kamen Rider Amazons Season 2
• Kamen Rider Build
• The Last Ship (season 4)
• Legends of Tomorrow season 3
• Legion
• Marvel Super Hero Adventures
• Miles from Tomorrowland (season 3)
• The Orville
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
• Power Rangers Ninja Steel
• The Punisher
• Rick and Morty (season 3)
• Runaways
• Salvation
• See You in Time
• Sense8 (season 2)
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Star Wars Rebels (season 3)
• Steven Universe (season 5)
• Stitch & Ai
• Supergirl season 3
• Time After Time
• Timeless
• Travelers (season 2)
• Uchu Sentai Kyuranger
• Voltron: Legendary Defender (seasons 2–4)

Video games

• Destiny 2
• Endless Space 2
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Nier Automata
• Prey
• Star Wars: Battlefront II

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Awards

Hugo Award

Producer of The Expanse Hawk Ostby accepting his Hugo Award

• Best dramatic presentation (long form) – Arrival
• Best dramatic presentation (short form) – The Expanse

Locus Award

Best Science Fiction Novel – Death's End by Liu Cixin

Saturn Award

Main article: 43rd Saturn Awards

• Best science fiction film: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Best Science Fiction Television Series: Westworld

Academy Award

• Arrival for Best Sound Editing.

Nobel Award for literature

• Kazuo Ishiguro, author of 2005 science fiction novel Never Let Me Go.

References

1. "40 Year Anniversary of 'Star Wars' Celebrated At 4-Day Fan Event". CBS San Francisco.
2. "DISNEY STORE CELEBRATES THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF STAR WARS". starwars.com.
3. Before We Vanish, retrieved 2019-02-01
4. Top Upcoming Sci-Fi Video Games of 2017

See also

Preceded by 2016

Science fiction by year 2017

Succeeded by 2018