Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/October/October 21
Book releases
- 2008 - Millennium Falcon, a novel by James Luceno about the history of the Millennium Falcon
Film releases
- 1959 - A Bucket of Blood, an American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman
- 1977 - Damnation Alley, a science fiction film directed by Jack Smight which is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny
Television series
- 1988 - Something Is Out There, an American science fiction television miniseries, begins airing on NBC
Births
- 1904 - Edmond Hamilton (d. 1977), an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century
- 1937 - Richard C. Meredith (d. 1979), an American science fiction author
- 1956 - Carrie Fisher, an American actress, screenwriter, and novelist best known for playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy