# 2019 in science fiction

In 2019 the following events occurred in science fiction.

## Deaths

* April 1 – Vonda N. McIntyre, American writer (born 1948)
* Erik Olin Wright, sociologist and futurologist
* Yuri Artsutanov, pioneer of the space elevator idea
* Carol Emshwiller, writer

## Literary releases
### Novels

* The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
* Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
* The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
* Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald
* Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey
* Motherland by Lauren Beukes
* English translation of The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
* Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
* Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
* Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
* Dark Age by Pierce Brown
* English translation of The Redemption of Time by Baoshu
* Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett
* Hierophant by Robert Jackson Bennett
* The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
* The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
* Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess
* The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
* A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
* This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
* Alliance Rising by C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher
* Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
* Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
* Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
* The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
* A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
* Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

### Stories collections

* American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s by Gary K. Wolfe (ed.)
* Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu (ed.)

## Films
### Original

* 3022
* 9
* Ad Astra
* Alita: Battle Angel
* The Blackout
* Boss Level
* Brightburn
* Captive State
* Chaos Walking
* Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration
* Escape Room
* Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
* Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
* Fast Color
* Gemini Man
* Goalkeeper of the Galaxy
* Happy Death Day 2U
* I Am Mother
* Io
* Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
* Kizhakku Africavil Raju
* Lucy in the Sky
* Princess Principal
* Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System
* Relive
* Serenity
* Short Circuit
* Spies in Disguise
* The Last Boy
* Paradise Hills
* Proxima
* Ultraman R/B the Movie
* The Vast of Night
* The Wandering Earth
* Warriors of Future

### Sequels, spin-offs and remakes

* Avengers: Endgame
* Captain Marvel
* Code 8
* Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection
* Glass
* Godzilla: King of the Monsters
* Hellboy
* Iron Sky: The Coming Race
* The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
* Men in Black: International
* Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
* Reign of the Supermen
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Spider-Man: Far From Home
* Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
* Terminator: Dark Fate
* Shazam!
* X-Men: Dark Phoenix

## Television
### New series

* My Absolute Boyfriend
* The Boys
* Doom Patrol
* Gen:Lock
* Good Omens
* His Dark Materials
* The I-Land
* Memories of the Alhambra
* October Faction
* The Passage
* Project Blue Book
* Roswell, New Mexico
* See
* Snowpiercer
* Star Trek: Picard
* Star Wars: The Mandalorian
* Swamp Thing
* The War of the Worlds (British TV series)
* The War of the Worlds (American TV series)
* Warrior Nun
* Watchmen
* Weird City

### Returning series

* The 100, season 6
* 3%, season 3
* Black Mirror, season 5
* Cloak & Dagger, season 2
* Cosmos: Possible Worlds
* Dark, season 2
* The Expanse, season 4
* The Handmaid's Tale, season 3
* Jessica Jones, season 3
* Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
* Krypton, season 2
* Legion, season 3
* Nightflyers, season 2
* Power Rangers Beast Morphers
* The Orville, season 2
* The Punisher, season 2
* Runaways, season 2
* She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, season 2
* Star Trek: Discovery, season 2
* Stranger Things, season 3
* Super Sentai Strongest Battle
* The Twilight Zone
* Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy
* Ultraman
* Ultraman New Generation Chronicle
* Van Helsing, season 4
* Young Justice, season 3

## Video games

* Anthem
* Apex Legends
* Control
* Crackdown 3
* Gears 5
* Halo Infinite
* Marvel's Spider-Man
* The Outer Worlds
* Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
* Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
* The Surge 2

## Awards

* Sorry to Bother You made it onto the list of Top Ten Independent Films of 2018 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures

## Other events

* Mir Fantastiki magazine was relaunched by the new publisher, Hobby World.