Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 23
Book releases
- 1984 - Birds of Prey, a science fiction historical novel by David Drake
Film releases
- 1985 - Warning Sign, a science fiction-horror film directed by Hal Barwood
- 1996 - The Island of Dr. Moreau, the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells science fiction horror novel of the same name
- 1996 - Solo, a science fiction action film from Columbia/Tristar Studios
Births
- 1965 - Chris Bachalo, an American comic book illustrator
- 1965 - Ilija Trojanow, a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher
Deaths
- 1971 - Frank Fenton (b. 1903), a British-born but American-raised writer of screenplays, short stories, magazine articles, and novels