The year 1932 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• September 28 : Michael Coney, British writer (died in 2005).^[1]
• November 7 : Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (died in 2005).^[2]
• November 8 : Ben Bova, American writer (died in 2020).^[3]
• August 15 : Robert Forward, American writer (died in 2002).^[4]

Deaths

Events

Literary releases

Novels

• Cat Country, by Lao She.^[5]
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.^[6]

Stories collections

Short stories

• The Cities of Ardathia, by George Henry Weiss.^[7]

Comics

Audiovisual outputs

Films

• Island of Lost Souls, by Erle C. Kenton.^[8]

Awards

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