# 1958 in science fiction

The year 1958 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

## Births and deaths
### Births

* Wayne Barlowe
* Jay Caselberg
* Bradley Denton
* A. R. Morlan (d. 2016)
* Don Sakers (d. 2021)
* David Sherman
* Johanna Sinisalo
* Allen Steele
* Peter Watts
* Lynda Williams

### Deaths

* E. Everett Evans (b. 1893)
* Cyril M. Kornbluth (b. 1923)
* Henry Kuttner (b. 1915)
* R. DeWitt Miller (b. 1910)

## Literary releases
### First editions

* A Case of Conscience by James Blish, a Jesuit priest grapples with the morality of an alien civilization.
* The Cosmic Rape by Theodore Sturgeon, humanity is absorbed into a collective alien consciousness.
* The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance, language manipulation shapes the destiny of an alien world.
* Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein, a long-lived family flees Earth to escape persecution.
* Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss, a generational spaceship's inhabitants discover their true situation.
* Slaves of the Klau by Jack Vance, human captives plan an escape from their alien overlords.
* Star Gate by Andre Norton, a man uses a star gate to travel between parallel worlds.
* Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg, a spacefaring twin searches for his long-lost brother.
* The Time Traders by Andre Norton, time agents battle an alien menace through history.
* The Tower of Zanid by L. Sprague de Camp, an adventurer navigates political intrigue on an alien planet.

### Short stories

* "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov, If: Worlds of Science Fiction (February)
* "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" by Alfred Bester, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October)
* "Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson, Galaxy Science Fiction (May)
* "The Prize of Peril" by Robert Sheckley, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May)

### Juveniles

* Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein (juvenile), a teenager's adventure across the galaxy after winning a space suit.

### Children's books

* Mr. Bass's Planetoid by Eleanor Cameron (children's book), children help save a small planet in the Mushroom Planet series.

## Movies

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan H. Juran | Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers | United States | Horror |
| Attack of the Puppet People | Bert I. Gordon | John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn | United States | Horror |
| Ballad of the Ming Tombs Reservoir (a.k.a Shi san ling shui ku chang xiang qu) | Jin Shan | Jin Shan, Yu Daiqin, Zhang Yisheng | China | |
| The Blob | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. | Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe | United States | Horror |
| Blood of the Vampire | Henry Cass | Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern | United Kingdom | |
| The Brain Eaters | Bruno Ve Sota | Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Jack Hill | United States | Horror |
| The Colossus of New York | Eugène Lourié | Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert | United States | Horror |
| Curse Of The Faceless Man | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis van Rooten | United States | |
| The Day the Sky Exploded (a.k.a La morte viene dallo spazio) | Paolo Heusch | Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Gérard Landry, Dario Michaelis | France Italy | |
| Earth vs. the Spider | Bert I. Gordon | Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth | United States | Family Horror Thriller |
| Escapement (a.k.a The Electronic Monster) | Montgomery Tully, David Paltenghi | Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards | United Kingdom United States | Crime Horror Mystery |
| Invention for Destruction (a.k.a Vynález zkázy) | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová | Czechoslovakia | Animation Adventure Fantasy |
| Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | Kynaston Reeves, Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn | United Kingdom United States | Horror |
| The Flame Barrier | Paul Landres | Arthur Franz, Kathleen Crowley | United States | Horror |
| The Fly | Kurt Neumann | Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama Horror |
| Frankenstein 1970 | Howard W. Koch | Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund | United States | Horror |
| Frankenstein's Daughter | Richard Cunha | Donald Murphy, John Ashley, Sandra Knight | United States | Horror Romance Thriller |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Giant from the Unknown | Richard E. Cunha | Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer | United States | Drama Horror |
| The H-Man (a.k.a Bijo to ekitai ningen) | Ishirō Honda | Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata | Japan | Crime Horror Thriller |
| The Hideous Sun Demon | Robert Clarke | Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson | United States | Horror |
| How to Make a Monster | Herbert L. Strock | Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, Morris Ankrum | USA | Horror |
| I Married a Monster from Outer Space | Gene Fowler | Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch | United States | Horror |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Lost Missile | Lester William Berke | Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Phillip Pine | United States | |
| Missile Monsters | Fred C. Brannon | Kent Fowler, Gregory Gaye | United States | Action Adventure Crime Fantasy. Recut of Flying Disc Man from Mars serial |
| Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | K. T. Stevens, Richard Travis, Lisa Simone | United States | Drama |
| Monster on the Campus | Jack Arnold | Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore | United States | Horror |
| The New Invisible Man (a.k.a El hombre que logró ser invisible) | Alfredo B. Crevenna | Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz | Mexico | Fantasy Horror |
| Night of the Blood Beast | Bernard Kowalski | Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer | United States | Horror |
| Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Rocket Attack U.S.A. a.k.a Five Minutes to Zero | Barry Mahon | Monica Davis, John McKay, Daniel Kern, Edward Czerniuk, Phillip St. George | United States | |
| Satan's Satellites | Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford | United States | Recut of Zombies of the Stratosphere serial |
| She Demons | Richard E. Cunha | Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung | United States | Horror |
| The Space Children | Jack Arnold | Adam Williams, Michel Ray, Johnny Crawford, Sandy Descher | United States | |
| Space Master X-7 | Edward Bernds | Robert Ellis, Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Strange World of Planet X (UK) (a.k.a. Cosmic Monsters) | Gilbert Gunn | Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson | United Kingdom | Drama Horror |
| Teenage Cave Man | Roger Corman | Robert Vaughn, Leslie E. Bradley, Frank de Kova | United States | Adventure |
| Teenage Monster | Jacques R. Marquette | Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade | United States | Horror Western |
| Terror from the Year 5000 (a.k.a. Cage Of Doom) | Robert J. Gurney Jr. | Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens, Fred Herrick | United States | |
| The Trollenberg Terror | Quentin Lawrence | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Varan the Unbelievable (a.k.a Daikaijû Baran) | Ishirō Honda | Tsuruko Kobayashi, Kōzō Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda | Japan | Horror Kaijū |
| War of the Colossal Beast | Bert I. Gordon | Sally Fraser, Dean Parkin, Roger Pace | United States | Horror |
| War of the Satellites | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair | United States | Horror |

## Awards

* The Big Time by Fritz Leiber won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.