2020 in science fiction

In 2020, the following events occurred in science fiction.

Deaths

• Mike Resnick, author
• Christopher Tolkien, editor and author
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author
• Terry Goodkind, author
• Richard A. Lupoff, author
• Ben Bova, author
• Dean Ing, author
• Phyllis Eisenstein, author
• James E. Gunn, author and editor

Literary releases

Novels

• Providence, Max Barry
• Chosen Spirits, Samit Basu
• Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica
• Machine, Elizabeth Bear
• Ghost Species, James Bradley
• Failed State, Christopher Brown
• The Book of Koli, M. R. Carey
• Bridge 108, Anne Charnock
• Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow
• City Under the Stars, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick
• Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott
• Agency, William Gibson
• Anthropocene Rag, Alex Irvine
• The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez
• The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
• The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Eleventh Gate, Nancy Kress
• The Arrest, Jonathan Lethem
• War of the Maps, Paul J. McAuley
• Pacific Storm, Linda Nagata
• Driving the Deep, Suzanne Palmer
• The Evidence, Christopher Priest
• Bone Silence, Alastair Reynolds
• The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Last Emperox, John Scalzi
• Network Effect, Martha Wells
• Fleet Elements, Walter Jon Williams
• Interlibrary Loan, Gene Wolfe
• Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu

Movies

• Altered Carbon: Resleeved
• Black Box
• Fried Barry
• Friend of the World
• Greenland
• Invisible Man
• Last and First Men
• Love and Monsters
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• Palm Springs
• Platform
• Possessor
• Songbird
• Sputnik
• Tenet

TV Series

• Appare-Ranman!
• Avenue 5
• Brave New World
• Deca-Dence
• Devs
• Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045
• The Midnight Gospel
• Snowpiercer
• Solar Opposites
• Space Force
• Star Trek: Lower Decks
• Star Trek: Picard
• Tales from the Loop
• Y: The Last Man

Video games

A Cyberpunk 2077 presentation

• Astro's Playroom
• Cyberpunk 2077
• DOOM Eternal
• Half-Life: Alyx
• The Last of Us Part II
• Wasteland 3