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April 11:

Book releases

• 2005 - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Film releases

• 1986 - Critters, an action sci-fi comedy horror film

Television series

• 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
• Machinima.com's YouTube
  channel

• 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