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These are the selected anniversaries for October that appear on the Speculative fiction portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.
October 1
Anniversaries and events
- 1950 - The first issue of Galaxy Science Fiction is dated October 1950
- 2009 - Sci Fi Channel launches in Serbia
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October 2
Book releases
- 2001 - Dune: House Corrino, a science fiction novel written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Television series
- 1999 - Spider-Man Unlimited, an animated series, begins airing on Fox Kids
- 2009 - The Stargate Universe series premieres on Syfy
Births
- 1909 - Alex Raymond (d. 1956), an American cartoonist, best known for creating the Flash Gordon comic strip for King Features
- 1911 - Jack Finney (d. 1995), an American science fiction and thriller author
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October 3
Book releases
- 2000 - Dune: House Harkonnen, a science fiction novel written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Film releases
- 2000 - Hellraiser: Inferno, the fifth film in the Hellraiser series is released straight-to-DVD
Television series
- 1983 - Terrahawks, a British science fiction television series, begins airing on ITV
- 2000 - Dark Angel, an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television program created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, begins airing on Fox
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October 4
Television series
- 1965 - Out of the Unknown, a British television science fiction anthology drama series, begins airing on BBC2
- 1991 - Beyond Reality, a Canadian/American science fiction television series, begins airing
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October 5
Book releases
- 1999 - Dune: House Atreides, a science fiction novel written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- 2010 - Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
- 2010 - Gauntlgrym by R. A. Salvatore
- 2010 - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II by Sean Williams
Film releases
- 2001 - Serendipity, a romantic comedy, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale
Television series
- 1999 - Angel begins airing on The WB
- 2002 - Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, a Canadian science fiction television program, begins airing on NBC and Discovery Kids
- 2007 - UFO Files, an American documentary television series covering unidentified flying and submerged objects, close encounters with alleged extraterrestrial life, and alleged military and government cover-up conspiracies, finishes airing on The History Channel
Deaths
- 1972 - Ivan Yefremov (b. 1908), a Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author
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October 6
Television series
- 1997 - Team Knight Rider, a syndicated television spin-off series of the original Knight Rider, begins airing
Deaths
- 1892 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 1809), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language
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October 7
Television series
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October 8
Births
- 1920 - Frank Herbert (d. 1986), an American science fiction author best known for his Dune series
Deaths
- 1997 - William Rotsler (b. 1926), an American author of science fiction novels and short stories, as well as television and film novelizations
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October 9
Deaths
- 1995 - Kukrit Pramoj (b. 1911), a Thai politician, author, and scholar
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October 10
Television series
- 1988 - War of the Worlds, a science fiction television series, begins airing as a syndicated series in the United States
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October 11
Television series
- 1997 - Men in Black: The Series, an animated television series based on the 1997 film, begins airing on Kids' WB
Deaths
- 2006 - Jacques Sternberg (b. 1923), a French-language writer of science fiction and fantastique
Anniversaries and events
- 2000 - the Baen Free Library goes online
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October 12
Book releases
- 2010 - Knot Gneiss by Piers Anthony
- 2010 - The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
- 2010 - The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Television series
- 1974 - Star Trek: The Animated Series, an animated science fiction television series, begins airing on NBC
- 2007 - Wizards of Waverly Place, a fantasy teen sitcom, begins airing on Disney Channel
Births
- 1928 - Thomas Burnett Swann (d. 1976), an American poet, critic and fantasy author
Deaths
- 1964 - Pat Frank (b. 1908), the pen name of American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank, best known for his 1959 post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon
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October 13
Births
- 1923 - Meyer Dolinsky (d. 1984), an American writer, actor and stunt coordinator
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October 14
Deaths
- 2008 - Barrington J. Bayley (b. 1937), an English science fiction writer
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October 15
Book releases
Film releases
- 2002 - Hellraiser: Hellseeker, the sixth film in the Hellraiser series, is released straight-to-DVD
Television series
- 1954 - Flash Gordon, a science fiction television series, begins airing on the DuMont Television Network
Births
- 1911 - James H. Schmitz (d. 1981), an American science fiction writer
Deaths
- 1987 - Donald Wandrei (b. 1908), an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor
- 2009 - George Tuska (b. 1916), an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay
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October 16
Book releases
- 1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- 1979 - Alongside Night, a Prometheus Award-winning libertarian and anarchist dystopian novel by science fiction writer J. Neil Schulman
- 2007 - Star Wars: Death Star, a science fiction novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry that is set in the Star Wars universe
- 2007 - Fleet of Worlds, a science fiction book by Edward M. Lerner and Larry Niven in the Known Space series
- 2007 - The Merchants' War, the fourth book in Charlie Stross' alternate history, science fiction series, The Merchant Princes
- 2010 - Homecoming by Jo Graham and Melissa Scott
Film releases
Births
- 1916 - George Turner (d. 1997), an Australian science fiction writer and critic
- 1926 - Joe Sinnott, an American comic book artist
- 1971 - Lawrence Schimel, an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist
Deaths
- 2003 - Mark Hanna (b. 1917), an American screenwriter and actor best known his screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s
- 2004 - Tetsu Yano (b. 1923), a Japanese science fiction translator and writer
- 2008 - Patrick W. Welch (b. 1965), an English painter, illustrator, and art professor known as the "Painter of Hate," a spoof/homage to Thomas Kinkade, "Painter of Light"
Anniversaries and events
- 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded in Los Angeles, California
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October 17
Film releases
- 1971 - Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, a British horror film based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Television series
- 2004 - The first of two parts of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, the miniseries conclusion of the Farscape series, airs on the Sci-Fi Channel
Births
- 1914 - Jerry Siegel (d. 1996), the American co-creator of Superman (along with Joe Shuster)
Deaths
- 1910 - Kurd Lasswitz (b. 1848), a German author, scientist, and philosopher considered the father of German science fiction
Anniversaries and events
- 1997 - Space, a Canadian cable television specialty channel which features science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming, goes on-air
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October 18
Television series
- 1975 - Planet of Evil, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, finishes airing on BBC
- 2004 - The reimagined Battlestar Galactica series premieres on the SciFi Channel
- 2004 - The first of two parts of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, the miniseries conclusion of the Farscape series, airs on the Sci-Fi Channel
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October 19
Book releases
- 2010 - Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson
- 2010 - Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 2010 - Writers of the Future Volume XXVI edited by K. D. Wentworth
Television series
- 1998 - The New Addams Family, a Canadian sitcom, begins airing on YTV and Fox Family
Births
- 1893 - Harl Vincent (d. 1968), the pen name of Harold Vincent Schoepflin, an American mechanical engineer and science fiction writer
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias (d. 1974), a Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and diplomat
- 1918 - Russell Kirk (d. 1994), an American political theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author
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October 20
Film releases
- 2000 - Bedazzled, a film remake of the 1967 film Bedazzled
- 2005 - Doom, a science fiction horror film, based on the popular Doom series of video games
Television series
- 1973 - The Six Million Dollar Man TV movie, Wine, Women and War, airs on ABC
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October 21
Book releases
- 2008 - Millennium Falcon, a novel by James Luceno about the history of the Millennium Falcon
Film releases
- 1959 - A Bucket of Blood, an American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman
- 1977 - Damnation Alley, a science fiction film directed by Jack Smight which is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny
Television series
- 1988 - Something Is Out There, an American science fiction television miniseries, begins airing on NBC
Births
- 1904 - Edmond Hamilton (d. 1977), an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century
- 1937 - Richard C. Meredith (d. 1979), an American science fiction author
- 1956 - Carrie Fisher, an American actress, screenwriter, and novelist best known for playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy
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October 22
Film releases
- 1998 - What Dreams May Come, a fantasy drama film
Television series
- 2000 - Andromeda begins airing on Global in Canada and in first-run syndication in the United States
Births
- 1943 - Jim Baen (d. 2006), a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor and founder of Baen Books
- 1952 - Yoshiki Tanaka, a Japanese science fiction and fantasy novelist best known of Legend of the Galactic Heroes and The Heroic Legend of Arslan
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October 23
Births
- 1942 - Michael Crichton (d. 2008), an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres
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October 24
Film releases
- 1960 - The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, a horror film directed by Terence Fisher
Deaths
- 1991 - Gene Roddenberry (b. 1921), an American screenwriter, producer and futurist, and creator of Star Trek
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October 25
Births
- 1909 - Whit Bissell (d. 1996), an American actor who received a life career award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1994
Deaths
- 1971 - Philip Wylie (d. 1902), an American science fiction author, co-author of When Worlds Collide
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October 26
Book releases
Television series
- 1984 - V: The Series, an American science fiction TV series, begins airing on NBC
Births
- 1971 - Jim Butcher, an American author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files
Deaths
- 1993 - Albert Zugsmith (b. 1910), an American film producer, film director and screenwriter known for works such as the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil
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October 27
Births
- 1926 - Takumi Shibano (d. 2010), Japanese science fiction translator and author
- 1927 - George H. Smith (d. 1996), American science fiction author
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October 28
Film releases
Deaths
- 1999 - Howard Browne (b. 1908), a science fiction editor and mystery writer
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October 29
Film releases
- 1993 - The Nightmare Before Christmas, a stop motion fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton
Births
- 1906 - Fredric Brown (d. 1972), an American science fiction and mystery writer
Anniversaries and events
- 1996 - Radio Tales, an American drama anthology radio series produced by Generations Productions, premieres on National Public Radio
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October 30
Television and web series
- 2008 - The last episode of Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction, a science fiction action-comedy machinima series, is released on the Rooster Teeth website
Deaths
- 1997 - Sydney Newman (b. 1917), a Canadian film and television producer who played a pioneering role in green-lighting production of The Avengers and Doctor Who
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October 31
Book releases
- 1984 - Legend of the Galactic Heroes volume 4, by Yoshiki Tanaka
- 1985 - Legend of the Galactic Heroes volume 6, by Yoshiki Tanaka
Television series
- 1964 - Planet of Giants, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on BBC
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