# 1968 in science fiction

The year 1968 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

## Births and deaths
### Births

* Vox Day
* Laurent Genefort
* Sergey Lukyanenko
* Chris Moriarty
* Van Allen Plexico
* Justina Robson
* Tricia Sullivan
* Howard Tayler
* Travis S. Taylor
* Jeff VanderMeer

### Deaths

* Anthony Boucher (b. 1911)
* Groff Conklin (b. 1904)
* Clare Winger Harris (b. 1891)
* Eric North (b. 1884) (pseudonym of Bernard Cronin)
* Arthur Sellings (b. 1911)
* Harl Vincent (b. 1893)

## Literary releases
### Novels

* 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
* Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
* The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock
* A Gift from Earth by Larry Niven
* The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak
* Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg
* The Heaven Makers by Frank Herbert
* His Master's Voice by Stanisław Lem
* Into the Slave Nebula by John Brunner
* The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
* The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg
* Nova by Samuel R. Delany
* Past Master by R. A. Lafferty
* Report on Probability A by Brian Aldiss
* Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
* The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
* Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
* Star Quest by Dean Koontz

### Short stories

* "Nightwings" (novella) by Robert Silverberg
* "The Sharing of Flesh" (novette) by Poul Anderson, winner of the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
* "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1970

## Movies

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester | United Kingdom United States | Adventure |
| The Astro-Zombies | Ted V. Mikels | Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace | United States | Horror |
| Barbarella | Roger Vadim | Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg | France Italy | Adventure Comedy Fantasy |
| Brides Of Blood | Eddie Romero | John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, Eva Darren | Philippines | |
| The Bamboo Saucer (aka Collision Course (1969) | Frank Telford | Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton | United States | |
| Charly | Ralph Nelson | Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom | United States | Drama Romance |
| Destroy All Monsters (a.k.a Kaijû sôshingeki) | Ishirō Honda | Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya | Japan | Action Adventure kaijū |
| Gamera vs. Viras (a.k.a Gamera tai uchu kaijû Bairasu) | Noriaki Yuasa | Kôjirô Hongô Tôru Takatsuka Carl Craig | Japan | Action Aventure Famille |
| Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (a.k.a Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro) | Hajime Sato | Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato, Eizo Kitamura, Hideo Ko | Japan | Horror |
| The Green Slime | Kinji Fukasaku | Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel | Japan United States | Drama Horror |
| Je t'aime, je t'aime | Alain Resnais | Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac | France | Drama |
| Mission Mars | Nicholas Webster | Darren McGavin, Nick Adams, George de Vries, Shirley Parker | United States | |
| Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans | United States | Adventure |
| The Power | Byron Haskin | George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson | United States | Thriller |
| Project X | William Castle | Christopher George, Greta Baldwin, Henry Jones | United States | Mystery |
| Thunderbird 6 | David Lane | Keith Alexander (voice), Sylvia Anderson (voice), John Carson (voice) | United Kingdom | Marionette Action Adventure Drama Family |
| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women | Peter Bogdanovich | Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee | United States | Adventure |

## Awards
### Hugo

* Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny won the 1968 Hugo Award (novel).

### Nebula

* Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin won the 1968 Nebula Award (novel).