2022 in science fiction

In 2022, the following events occurred in science fiction.

Events 

 1 to 5 September – 80th World Science Fiction Convention was held in Chicago, United States.
 25 October – 47th Saturn Awards was held in Los Angeles, United States.

Deaths 

 5 January – John J. Miller, American author (born 1954)
 13 January – Rick Cook, American author (born 1944)
 14 January – Ron Goulart, American historian and author (born 1933)
 18 April – Valerio Evangelisti, Italian author (born 1952)
 16 July – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist and author (born 1927)
 17 July – Eric Flint, American author (born 1947)
 26 July – Felix Thijssen, Dutch author (born 1933)
 21 August – Alexei Panshin, American author (born 1940)
 24 September – Chandler Davis, American-Canadian mathematician and author (born 1926)
 19 November – Greg Bear, American author (born 1951)
 30 November – Ray Nelson, American author (born 1931)

Literary releases

Novels 

 Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders
 Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
 RCE - Remote Code Execution by Sibylle Berg
 Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell
 Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty
 The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
 Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Films

Original 

 Alienoid
 Attack: Part 1
 Bigbug
 Captain
 Chariot
 Corrective Measures
 Crimes of the Future
 Dual
 Everything Everywhere All at Once
 Expired
 Firestarter
 I'm Totally Fine
 Linoleum
 LOLA
 M3GAN
 MEAD
 Monolith
 Moonfall
 Moonshot
 Morbius
 Naai Sekar
 Nope
 Ordinary Failures
 Petrópolis
 Phi 1.618
 Relax, I'm from the Future
 Samaritan
 Significant Other
 Slash/Back
 Something in the Dirt
 Spiderhead
 Strange World
 TeraStorm
 The Adam Project
 The Hunteress
 The In Between
 The Legend
 The Orbital Children
 The Ordinaries
 The Other Shape
 The Time Capsule
 Timescape
 Vesper
 Viking
 Warriors of Future
 We Are Not Alone

Sequels, spin-offs and remakes 

 2025 Armageddon
 Avatar: The Way of Water
 Black Adam
 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
 Boonie Bears: Back to Earth
 Dobaaraa
 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
 Jurassic World Dominion
 Kids vs. Aliens
 Koogle Kuttappa
 Lightyear
 Moon Man
 Prey
 Shin Ultraman
 Sonic the Hedgehog 2
 Thor: Love and Thunder

Television

New series 

 Andor
 Baymax!
 Farzar
 From
 Halo
 I Am Groot
 Into the Deep
 Kindred
 Life After Life
 Moonhaven
 Night Sky
 Obi-Wan Kenobi
 Outer Range
 Pantheon
 Paper Girls
 Quantum Leap
 Raised by Wolves
 Salvage Marines
 Saving Me
 Severance
 She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
 Silverpoint
 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
 Tales of the Jedi
 The Imperfects
 The Last Bus
 The Lazarus Project
 The Man Who Fell to Earth
 The Midwich Cuckoos
 The Peripheral
 The Time Traveler's Wife
 Transformers: BotBots
 Transformers: EarthSpark

Returning series 

 Avenue 5, season 2
 Doctor Who, specials
 Doom Patrol, season 2
 For All Mankind, season 3
 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, season 5 and specials
 Kid Cosmic, season 3
 La Brea, season 2
 Love, Death & Robots, season 3
 Made for Love, season 2
 Mystery Science Theater 3000
 Nova Jones, series 2
 Paradise, season 2
 Power Rangers Dino Fury, season 2
 Raising Dion, season 2
 Resident Alien, season 2
 Rick and Morty, season 6
 Roswell, New Mexico, season 4
 See, season 3
 Solar Opposites, season 3
 Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3
 Star Trek: Picard, season 2
 Stranger Things, season 4
 The Orville, season 3
 The Umbrella Academy, season 3
 Titans, season 4
 UFOs, season 2
 Upload, season 2
 Westworld, season 4

Video games 

 Anonymous;Code
 Citizen Sleeper
 Iron Lung
 Scorn
 The Callisto Protocol
 The Last of Us Part I

References 

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