Science fiction set in 1920

This is a list of science fiction works set in 1920. It covers works published before 1920 that used the year as a near-future setting, works published in 1920 whose action is contemporaneous with publication, and later works that return to 1920. Inclusion is limited to works of science fiction for which a published source identifies 1920 as the setting, wholly or in part. Works merely set in the 1920s without a specified year are excluded.

List

Work Form Published Setting Notes
The Repairer of Reputations Short story 1895 1920 Published in The King in Yellow. Narrated by Hildred Castaigne in a New York City of 1920 that follows a near-future war with Germany and the legalisation of suicide, with the first Government Lethal Chamber opened on Washington Square. The narrator is unreliable and the reality of the setting is disputed.[1][2]
Algol: Tragedy of Power Film 1920 1920–c. 1940 German silent film directed by Hans Werckmeister. The miner Robert Herne obtains a machine producing unlimited energy from an inhabitant of the star Algol; the action opens in the present day of production and extends over the following two decades.[3][4]
The Comet Short story 1920 1920[a] Published as the final chapter of Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. A comet strike releases gases that appear to kill everyone in New York but a Black bank messenger and a wealthy white woman.[5][6]
Blink Television episode 2007 1920 (in part) Doctor Who. Kathy Nightingale is displaced to 1920 by a Weeping Angel and lives out the rest of her life there.[7]
The Mouthless Dead Audio drama 2016 November 1920 Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles 10.1, by John Pritchard. The TARDIS arrives beside an English railway line on the eve of the funeral of the Unknown Warrior.[8][9]
  1. ↑ The story does not name a year. Sources place its action in the Manhattan contemporaneous with the collection's 1920 publication.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Chambers, Robert W". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (3rd ed.). Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  2. ↑ Emrys, Ruthanna; Pillsworth, Anne M. (5 January 2016). "A Totally Unproblematic Utopia: "The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers". Tor.com. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  3. ↑ "Algol – Tragedy of Power". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (3rd ed.). Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "Algol". filmportal.de. Deutsches Filminstitut. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  5. ↑ Shawl, Nisi. "Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: W. E. B. Du Bois' "The Comet"". Tor.com. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W. E. B. Du Bois". Literary Hub. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "The Companion Chronicles: The Mouthless Dead". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Pritchard, John (writer) (June 2016). The Mouthless Dead. Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – The Second Doctor: Volume One. Big Finish Productions. 10.1.
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