The year 2017 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Events

• May 25 – 40th anniversary of Star Wars was celebrated by fans worldwide. The 2017 Star Wars Celebration convention in Orlando was dedicated to this date, ^[1] and several anniversary collectibles were released. ^[2]
• December 14 – Disney announced it would acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. The deal includes rights for many science fiction franchises, such as Avatar, Alien, Futurama, Firefly, among others.

Deaths

• January 19 – Hilary Bailey, writer, critic and editor (The Fall of Frenchy Steiner, Frankenstein's Bride, Mrs Rochester, Fifty-First State)
• January 25 – John Hurt, English actor ( Alien, Contact, Snowpiercer, Nineteen Eighty-Four, V for Vendetta)
• February 7 – Richard Hatch, American actor ( Battlestar Galactica)
• February 10 – Edward Bryant, writer
• February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor ( The Terminator, Weird Science, Aliens, Predator 2, Edge of Tomorrow)
• March 22 – Daisuke Satō, writer ( Highschool of the Dead, Imperial Guards, Seito, Red Sun Black Cross)
• March 26 – Marie Jakober, writer (The Mind Gods, The Black Chalice)
• April 5 – Huang Yi, writer ( A Step into the Past)
• April 22 – William Hjortsberg, writer ( Gray Matters, Legend)
• April 28 – Grania Davis, writer and editor (The Boss in the Wall, a.o.)
• June 9 – Adam West, American actor ( Batman, Robinson Crusoe on Mars)
• July 15 – Martin Landau, American actor ( Space: 1999)
• July 27 – H. A. Hargreaves, writer, professor
• August 3 – Jack Wodhams, writer (Ryn, Mostly Meantime)
• August 13 – Victor Pemberton, scriptwriter, television producer ( Doctor Who)
• August 19 – Brian Aldiss, English writer ( Super-Toys Last All Summer Long)
• August 31 – Richard Anderson, American actor ( The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Forbidden Planet)
• September 8 – Jerry Pournelle, writer, scientist, journalist
• September 10 – Len Wein, American comic book writer ( Swamp Thing, Wolverine)
• September 15 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor ( Alien, Escape from New York, Repo Man, The Avengers)
• September 24 – Kit Reed, writer (The Attack of the Giant Baby, Thinner Than Thou, The Night Children, The Baby Merchant)
• October 9 – ElizaBeth Gilligan, author, former secretary for the Science Fiction Writers of America board of directors
• October 9 – Yoji Kondo aka. Eric Kotani, writer, editor and astrophysicist (Star Trek: Death of a Neutron Star, Requiem)
• October 17 – Julian May, writer ( Saga of Pliocene Exile, Galactic Milieu Series)
• November 25 – Rance Howard, American actor ( Independence Day, Cocoon, Mars Attacks!)

Literary releases

• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
• The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
• Empire Games by Charles Stross
• Forgotten Worlds, The Silence #2 by D. Nolan Clark
• Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
• Seek and Destroy, America Rising #2 by William C. Dietz
• The Stone Sky, The Broken Earth #3 by N. K. Jemisin
• Vanguard: The Genesis Fleet by Jack Campbell
• Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card

Films

Original

• Attraction, by Fyodor Bondarchuk
• Battle of Memories, by Leste Chen
• Before We Vanish, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa ^[3]
• Dance to Death, by Andrei Volgin
• Life, by Daniel Espinosa
• Orbita 9 by Hatem Khraiche
• OtherLife, by Ben C. Lucas
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, by Luc Besson

Sequels, spin-offs and remakes

• Alien Covenant, by Ridley Scott
• Blade Runner 2049, by Denis Villeneuve
• Ghost in the Shell, by Rupert Sanders
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi, by Rian Johnson
• War for the Planet of the Apes, by Matt Reeves

Television

• 12 Monkeys (season 3)
• Adventure Time (seasons 9+10)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5
• Big Hero 6: The Series
• Colony (TV series) (season 2)
• The Defenders
• Dimension 404
• The Expanse (season 2)
• Extinct
• The Flash (season 4)
• The Gifted
• Gotham (season 4)
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (season 2)
• I'm Not a Robot
• Infini-T Force
• Inhumans
• Iron Fist
• Kamen Rider Amazons Season 2
• Kamen Rider Build
• The Last Ship (season 4)
• Legends of Tomorrow (season 3)
• Legion
• Marvel Super Hero Adventures
• Miles from Tomorrowland (season 3)
• The Orville
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
• Power Rangers Ninja Steel
• The Punisher
• Rick and Morty (season 3)
• Runaways
• Salvation
• See You in Time
• Sense8 (season 2)
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Star Wars Rebels (season 3)
• Steven Universe (season 5)
• Stitch & Ai
• Supergirl (season 3)
• Time After Time
• Timeless
• Travelers (season 2)
• Uchu Sentai Kyuranger
• Voltron: Legendary Defender (seasons 2–4)

Video games

• Destiny 2
• Endless Space 2
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Nier Automata
• Prey
• Star Wars: Battlefront II

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Awards

Hugo Award

• Best dramatic presentation (long form) – Arrival
• Best dramatic presentation (short form) – The Expanse

Locus Award

Best Science Fiction Novel – Death's End by Liu Cixin

Saturn Award

• Best science fiction film: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Best Science Fiction Television Series: Westworld

Academy Award

• Arrival for Best Sound Editing.

Nobel Award for literature

• Kazuo Ishiguro, author of 2005 science fiction novel Never Let Me Go.

References

See also