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1866 Sep 21
 H.G. Wells (d.1946), English novelist and historian was born as Herbert George Wells in Bromley, Kent, England. His work included the novel "Marriage," "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897) and "The War of the Worlds" (1898).
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1928 Aug
 Buck Rogers first appeared as Anthony Rogers in a short space opera, "Armageddon-2419 A.D." by Philip Francis Nowlan, published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories.
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1936
 The sci-fi film "The Shape of Things to Come" by William Cameron Menzies was produced by Alexander Korda. It was based on a novel by H.G. Wells, who helped write the screenplay. The film depicted the obliteration of cities by air power.
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1937
 Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), British philosopher and science fiction writer, authored “Star Maker.”
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1951
 Isaac Asimov authored his sci-fi novel “Foundation” (1951), the first of trilogy that began as a series of short stories published from 1942-1950. It imagined a science called psycho-history which enabled practitioners to precisely predict the behavior of large groups of people.
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1953
 Arthur C. Clarke authored his sci-fi novel “”The Nine Billion Names of God.”
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1966
 Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) published his novel “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.” His setting was a penal colony on the moon in 2075.
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1966
 Harry Harrison authored sci-fi novel “Make Room! Make Room” was published. It was originally serialized in Impulse magazine. The novel was the basis of the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green, although the movie changed much of the plot and theme and introduced cannibalism as a solution to feeding people.
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1968 Apr 2
 The influential science-fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey," produced and di-rected by Stanley Kubrick, had its world premiere in Washington.
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1968
 Philip Dick (1928-1982) authored his sci-fi novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." In 1982 it was made into the film "Blade Runner."
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1971 Apr 2
 The ABC sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows,” which premiered in 1966, aired for the last time.
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1971
 Ursula LeGuin (b.1929), American author, published "The Lathe of Heaven," a science fiction novel where all the dreams of the main character come true.
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1972
 Thomas M. Disch authored his science fiction novel "334," on events following the passage of the Revised Genetic Testing Act of 2011.
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1975 Jul 30
 James Benjamin Blish (b.1921), sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader, Black Sunday), died. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
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1978
 The British sci-fi TV series "Dr. Who," which began in 1963, reached the US. It featured a space traveling Doctor who was hundreds of years old from the planet Gellifrey. He used a London police call box as the external form of his space vessel. The interior was spacious with comfortable Edwardian touches.
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1979
 Arthur C. Clarke authored his science fiction novel “The Fountains of Paradise” about the construction of a space elevator.
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1979
 Marge Piercy authored her science fiction novel "Woman on the Edge of Time," on travel to the year 2137.
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1982
 William Gibson authored “Neuromancer,” a science fiction short story in which he coined the term cyberspace.
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1990
 William Gibson and Bruce Sterling authored a novel called “The Difference Engine.” It described an alternative Victorian era of mechanical computers driven by steam.
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1999
 Neal Stephenson authored his sci-fi novel “Cryptonomicon.”
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2008 Mar 19
 Arthur C. Clarke (b.1917), English-born science fiction writer, died in Sri Lanka. Clarke wrote or collaborated on close to 100 books and had moved to Sri Lanka in 1956. He had just finished his last novel, co-authored with Frederik Pohl, titled “The Last Theorem.”
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2008
 Suzanne Collins authored “The Hunger Games,” the first book of a trilogy. The sequels were titled “Catching Fire” (2009) and “Mockingjay” (2010). A film followed in 2012 based on the first book.
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2008
 Chinese writer Liu Cixin (b.1963) published "The Three-Body Problem," the first of a three-part science fiction series. The work was serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006 and published as a book in 2008.
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2009 Sep 19
 Nigeria’s Information Minister Dora Akunyili said she's asked movie houses to stop screening "District 9" because the South Africa-based sci-fi movie about aliens and discrimination makes Nigerians look bad. Akunyili said she has asked Sony for an apology and wants them to edit out the Nigerian antagonists and the name of the main Nigerian gangster Obesandjo, whose name closely resembles that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The film brought in some US$37 million (euro25.16 million) during its US debut weekend in August.
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2012 Jun 5
 Ray Bradbury (91), author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and other beloved science fiction novels, died.
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2013 Jun 23
 Richard Matheson, American sci-fi and fantasy writer, died in Los Angeles. His 1954 vampire novel “I Am Legend” inspired three different film adaptations: “The Last Man on Earth” (1964), “The Omega Man” (1971), and “I Am Legend” (2007).
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2015 Mar 12
 British science fiction and fantasy author Terry Pratchett (66) died. His 40 Discworld novels made him Britain’s bestselling author in the 1990s. By 2015 he sold some 85 million books in 37 languages.
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2015
 The Hugo Award for the best science-fiction novel went to “The Three-Body Problem” (2008) by Liu Cixin of China. A film adaptation of the same name was scheduled for release in July, 2016.
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