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April 11:

Book releases
 * 2005 - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Film releases
 * 1986 - Critters, an action sci-fi comedy horror film

Television series
 * 1964 - The Keys of Marinus, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on the BBC
 * 1967 - The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., an American spy-fi TV series, finishes airing on NBC
 * 1992 - Eerie, Indiana, an American mystery, horror, and science fiction television series, finishes airing on NBC
 * 2001 - Special Unit 2, an American sci-fi/comedy television series, begins airing on UPN
 * 2011 - Mortal Kombat: Legacy, an American web series anthology debuts on Machinima.com's YouTube channel

Births
 * 1955 - Julie E. Czerneda, a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author
 * 1963 - Gregory Keyes, an American writer of science fiction and fantasy

Deaths
 * 1944 - Bruno Winawer (b. 1889), a Polish comedy and prose writer, a journalist, a physicist, and a writer of early science fiction stories
 * 1964 - Hannes Bok (b. 1914), an American artist and illustrator, amateur astrologer, and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry
 * 1991 - Chester Anderson (b. 1932), a novelist, poet, and editor and member of the New Wave movement in science fiction
 * 2007 - Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922), an American satire, black comedy, and science fiction writer