Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 1
Book and story releases
- 1961 - The Dandelion Girl, a science fiction short story written by American science fiction author Robert F. Young
- 2008 - Small Favor, the tenth book in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
- 2010 - Conan the Barbarian: The Original, Unabridged Adventures of the World's Greatest Fantasy Hero, by Robert E. Howard
Film releases
- 1957 - The Incredible Shrinking Man, science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold
- 2010 - The Warrior's Way, an American-New Zealand fantasy action film
Television and web series
- 1955 - Captain Video and His Video Rangers, an American science fiction television series, finishes airing on the DuMont Television Network
- 1995 - Bugs, a British television science fiction drama series, begins airing on BBC One
- 2003 - Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, a comic science fiction video series released online and via DVD, begins broadcasting
Births
- 1883 - Lon Chaney, Sr. (d. 1930), an American actor during the age of silent films best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters
- 1917 - Sydney Newman (d. 1997), a Canadian film and television producer who played a pioneering role in green-lighting production of The Avengers and Doctor Who
- 1925 - Ernest Kinoy, an American writer, screenwriter and playwright who worked on the science fiction radio series Dimension X and X Minus One
- 1926 - Anne McCaffrey, an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series
- 1942 - Samuel R. Delany, an American author, professor, literary critic, and winner of four Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards
- 1959 - J. Timothy Hunt, also known as Tim Beiser, an American-Canadian science fiction author and journalist
Anniversaries and events
- 1934 - The last of six parts of the science fiction disaster novel After Worlds Collide, by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, is serialized in the February issue of Blue Book
- 1938 - The character Superman appears for the first time in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938, on newsstands in April 1938)
- 2009 - Sci Fi Channel launches in the Philippines