The year 1934 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• January 23 : Michel Jeury, French writer, (died 2015).^[1]
• March 5 : Jacques Sadoul, French writer and editor, (died 2013)^[2]
• May 31 : Jacques Goimard, French writer and editor, (died 2012).^[3]
• August 16 : Andrew J. Offutt, American writer, (died 2013)^[4]
• November 9 : Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer, (died 1996).^[5]

Deaths

Events

Literary releases

Novels

• Legion of Space Series, by Jack Williamson.^[6]
• (in French) Triplanetary, by Edward Elmer Smith.^[7]

Stories collections

Short stories

• Night on the Galactic Railroad, by Kenji Miyazawa.^[8]

Comics

Audiovisual outputs

Movies

Awards

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