Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/June/June 8
Book releases
- 2010 - Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters
- 2010 - The Passage by Justin Cronin
Births
- 1906 - Joseph W. Ferman (d. 1974), a Lithuanian-American science fiction publisher
- 1910 - John W. Campbell (d. 1971), an influential author and editor in American science fiction, generally credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction
- 1915 - Robert F. Young (d. 1986), an American science fiction writer
- 1921 - Ivan Southall (d. 2008), an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction
- 1928 - Kate Wilhelm, an American writer whose works include science fiction, mystery, and fantasy
- 1957 - Scott Adams, an American author and the creator of the Dilbert comic strip
- 1965 - Paul Youll, a British science fiction and fantasy artist and illustrator
- 1965 - Stephen Youll, a British science fiction and fantasy artist and illustrator
Deaths
- 1942 - Morley Roberts (b. 1857), an English science fiction novelist and short story writer
- 1947 - Murray Leinster (b. 1896), the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history
- 1997 - George Turner (b. 1916), an Australian science fiction writer and critic
- 1997 - Amos Tutuola (b. 1920), a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales