1972 in science fiction

none The year 1972 was marked, in science fiction, by the following: Events The 30th annual Worldcon, L.A.Con I, is held in Los Angeles, USA The first Eurocon is held in Trieste, Italy Births and deaths Births N. K. Jemisin China Miéville Adrian Tchaikovsky Andy Weir Deaths Fredric Brown Literary releases Novels Category:1972 science fiction novels Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton Short stories Short story anthologies The first volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year is published by Ballantine Books, edited by Terry Carr The first volume of The Annual World's Best SF is published by DAW Books, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha Children's books Comics Kamandi #1, by Jack Kirby Mazinger Z begins serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine Movies Category: 1972 science fiction films Silent Running, dir. by Thomas Trumbull Slaughterhouse-Five, dir. by George Roy Hill Solaris, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky Z.P.G., dir. by Michael Campus Awards Hugos Best novel: To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philip José Farmer1972 Hugo Awards https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1972-hugo-awards/ The Hugo Award 18 October 2025 Best novella: The Queen of Air and Darkness, by Poul Anderson Best short story:"Inconstant Moon", by Larry Niven Best dramatic presentation: A Clockwork Orange, dir. by Stanley Kubrick; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick; based on the novel by Anthony Burgess Best professional magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. by Edward L. Ferman Best professional artist:Frank Kelly Freas Best fanzine: Locus, ed. by Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown Best fan writer:Harry Warner Jr. Best fan artist:Tim Kirk Nebulas Best novel: The Gods Themselves, by Isaac Asimov1972 - The Nebula Awards https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/1972/ Nebula Awards 18 October 2025 Best novella: A Meeting with Medusa, by Arthur C. Clarke Best novelette: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson Best short story: "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ Other awards Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film: Slaughterhouse-Five References Category:Science fiction by year