Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 11
Book releases
Film releases
Television series
- 1964 - The Keys of Marinus, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on the BBC
- 1967 - The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., an American spy-fi TV series, finishes airing on NBC
- 1992 - Eerie, Indiana, an American mystery, horror, and science fiction television series, finishes airing on NBC
- 2001 - Special Unit 2, an American sci-fi/comedy television series, begins airing on UPN
- 2011 - Mortal Kombat: Legacy, an American web series anthology debuts on Machinima.com's YouTube channel
Births
- 1955 - Julie E. Czerneda, a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author
- 1963 - Gregory Keyes, an American writer of science fiction and fantasy
Deaths
- 1944 - Bruno Winawer (b. 1889), a Polish comedy and prose writer, a journalist, a physicist, and a writer of early science fiction stories
- 1964 - Hannes Bok (b. 1914), an American artist and illustrator, amateur astrologer, and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry
- 1991 - Chester Anderson (b. 1932), a novelist, poet, and editor and member of the New Wave movement in science fiction
- 2007 - Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922), an American satire, black comedy, and science fiction writer