Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/March/March 20

March 20:

Film releases

• 2009 - Knowing, a science fiction/disaster film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage

Television series

• television series
  , finishes airing
• 1996 - The Sentinel, a Canadian-produced science fiction television series, begins airing on UPN
• television series, finishes airing on Syfy

• 1902 - David Lasser (d. 1996), one of the most influential figures of early science fiction writing
• Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1
• 1948 -
  feminist, science fiction author
  , and editor
• 1955 - Nina Kiriki Hoffman, an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer
• 1957 - Chris Wedge, an American film director, best known for the films Ice Age and Robots
• 1958 - Stephen Sommers, an American screenwriter and film director, best known for The Mummy and its sequel, The Mummy Returns
• 1959 - Mariko Ōhara, a Japanese science fiction writer
• 1959 - Suzanne Francis, an English science fiction and fantasy author
• Atlanta, Georgia
• science-fiction and fantasy
  author

• 2006 - John Morressy (b. 1930), an American science fiction and fantasy writer

Anniversaries and events

• 1976 - The first Stellarcon is held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro