Through his magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland ( 1958 – 1983 ), Ackerman introduced the history of the science fiction, fantasy and horror film genres to a generation of young readers.

They introduced new characters and plots during the 1950s, including a 1958 science fiction storyline about a brilliant inventor and alien invasions.

In addition to its selection for the National Registry in 2009 by the National Film Preservation Board, it won the 1958 Hugo award for that year's best science fiction or fantasy dramatic presentation.

* Threshold ( 2003 film ), an adaptation of the 1958 science fiction film It!

He played an Army sergeant in the 1954 science fiction thriller, Them !, a professor in the 1958 science fiction movie The Brain Eaters, and had a role in The Balcony ( 1963 ), a film adaptation of the Jean Genet play.

The school was built in 1958 with major building work, at a cost of £ 1. 2 million, in 1998, adding the science block and the sports hall.

Have Space Suit — Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( August, September, October 1958 ) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958 as the last of the Heinlein juveniles.

The Robert Heinlein Omnibus is an anthology of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1958.

Darkover is the focus of the Darkover series of science fiction novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958.

The Terror from Beyond Space, a 1958 science fiction film

The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in 1958, in which the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis is a central theme.

( 1952 ) and a Ph. D. in history with a minor in political science ( 1958 ).

Instead, CBS used the science fiction script for a new show produced by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, in 1958.

He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin – Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958.

In 1958, veterinary science as a discipline was started with the establishment of the Veterinary College at Hebbal also affiliated to Mysore University.

The Weather-Conditioned House ( 1958 ) is not science fiction but a practical discussion of methods involved in weather-conditioning a house.

However, major international recognition came with his science fiction trilogy Journey Into Space which he wrote and produced between 1953 and 1958.

Carroll earned a Bachelor of science in Physics from Loyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M. S.

Edgar Rice Burroughs ' A Princess of Mars ( 1912 ) is also sometimes seen as a major work of scientific romance, and Sam Moskowitz referred to him in 1958 as " the acknowledged master of the scientific romance ," though the scholar E. F. Bleiler views Burroughs as part of the " new development " of pulp science fiction that arose in the early 20th century.

Category: 1958 in computer science

* Immortality, Inc., a 1958 science fiction novella by American writer Robert Sheckley

* The issue of what to call the then-fledgling field of computer science was raised by the editors of DATA-LINK in a letter to the editor of CACM, appearing in 1958, the first year of CACM.

After Kuttner's death in 1958, Moore wrote almost no fiction and taught his writing course at the University of Southern California.

* Journey Into Space ( 1953 – 1958 ): Science fiction series which was the last UK radio programme to achieve a higher audience than television.

Caddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink which received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

He was founding editor ( with J. Francis McComas ) of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction from 1949 to 1958, and was seminal in attempting to make literary quality an important aspect of science fiction.

Kawakami Hiromi ( 川上 弘美 Kawakami Hiromi ) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.

Robert Hammond Patrick, Jr. ( born November 5, 1958 ) is an American actor, known for his work in the science fiction genre.

* Narrated sixteen episodes of the NBC science fiction television series Steve Canyon, starring Dean Fredericks ( 1958 – 1959 )

* Gigi ( 1973 ), based on the 1958 film of the same name, with Frederick Loewe

Bruce Lorne Campbell ( born June 22, 1958 ) is an American film and television actor, director, writer, producer and author.

Day co-starred with Richard Widmark and Gig Young in the romantic comedy film, The Tunnel of Love in 1958.

Muhomatsu no Issho, released as the Rickshaw Man 1958 remake in the United States, to recreate the honesty and integrity seen in the film.

The first adult film he recalls having seen was the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road ( starring Robert Mitchum ) the violence and darkness of which left an impression on the seven-year-old Jarmusch.

* 1909 – Mike Todd, American film and theater producer, 3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor ( d. 1958 )

Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

Miranda Jane Richardson ( born 3 March 1958 ) is an English stage, film and television actor.

* 1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer ( b. 1909 )

Mustafa Altıoklar ( born 1958, Ankara ) is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

His first film performances were in small roles in Wind Across the Everglades ( 1958 ), The Bloody Brood ( 1959 ) and Pretty Boy Floyd ( 1960 ).

* The Nazi occupation of Poland and the Allied bombing of Peenemünde are depicted in the British feature film Battle of the V-1 ( 1958 ) ( called Missiles From Hell in the United States and some other countries ), which starred the actor Michael Rennie.

Later on, in 1953 and 1958, the happy face was used in promotional campaigns for motion pictures Lili and Gigi, respectively. First use of happy face in a campaign for the film Lili in 1953.

* 1880 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer ( d. 1958 )

Eisenstein's film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, presenting Ivan IV of Russia as a national hero, won Joseph Stalin's approval ( and a Stalin Prize ), but the sequel, Ivan The Terrible, Part II was criticized by various authorities and would go unreleased until 1958.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

The Big Country is a 1958 American Western film directed by William Wyler.

Timothy Walter " Tim " Burton ( born August 25, 1958 ) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist.

** Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress ( d. 1958 )