2017 in science fiction

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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

Video games

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

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

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

See also

Preceded by 2016	Science fiction by year 2017	Succeeded by 2018

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