Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 15
Book releases
- 1997 - Absolute Magnitude, an anthology collecting stories from the magazine of the same title
- 2010 - A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files
- 2010 - Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, by Fritz Leiber
- 2010 - The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories by Walter Jon Williams
- 2010 - I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick by Laurence A. Rickels
- 2010 - The Lord of the Void by James Lovegrove
- 2010 - Nieve by Terry Griggs
Television series
- first-run syndication
Births
- 1908 - Howard Browne (d. 1999), a science fiction editor and mystery writer
- 1918 - Denis McLoughlin (d. 2002), a well-known British illustrator known for his hard-boiled detective illustrations and science fiction works
- 1925 or 1927 - Jerry Grandenetti, an American comic book artist and advertising art director
- 1931 - Sally Miller Gearhart, an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist
- 1937 - Tom Sutton (d. 2002), an American comic book artist
Deaths
- RMS Titanic
- 1993 - Alberto Giolitti (b. 1923), an Italian-American comic book artist
- 1997 - Sam Moskowitz (b. 1920), an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer, critic, and historian of the field
- 2002 - Damon Knight (b. 1922), an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan
Anniversaries and events
- 1975 - Dune, by Frank Herbert, is voted the "all-time best science-fiction novel" by a poll of readers of Locus
- 6371 Heinlein, a main-belt asteroid named for Robert A. Heinlein, is discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell