The year 1927 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• June: Lynn Venable
• July 19 : Richard E. Geis, American writer (died 2013)^[1]
• July 25 : (in French) Pierre-Jean Brouillaud, French writer
• August 9 : Daniel Keyes, American writer (died 2014)^[2]
• October 3 : Donald R. Bensen, American writer and editor (died 1997)

Deaths

Events

Awards

The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.

Literary releases

Novels

• (in French) Radiopolis, by Otfrid von Hanstein.
• (in French) Dix mille lieues dans les airs, by Otfrid von Hanstein.
• (in Russian) The Garin Death Ray by Alexey N. Tolstoy.

Stories collections

Short stories

• Night on the Galactic Railroad, by Kenji Miyazawa.
• The Colour Out of Space, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Comics

Audiovisual outputs

Movies

• Metropolis, by Fritz Lang.^[3]