Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 2
Book releases
- 2003 - Blind Lake, a science fiction novel by author Robert Charles Wilson
- 2007 - Spook Country, novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson
Film releases
- 1946 - Boom in the Moon, a Mexican science fiction comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador
- 1980 - Contamination, a science fiction horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi
- 1985 - Weird Science, an American teen comedy science fiction film written and directed by John Hughes
- Signs, a science fiction thriller film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- 2005 - Cypher, a Canadian sci-fi thriller
Births
- 1939 - Wes Craven, an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films
- John Wilson, a Canadian historical fiction and science fiction author
- 1970 - Kevin Smith, an American screenwriter, film producer, and director, as well as a comic book writer, author, comedian, and actor
Deaths
- 1997 - William S. Burroughs (b. 1914), an American novelist, poet, essayist, painter and spoken word performer