Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 12

April 12:

Book releases
 * 1972 - The Terminal Man, a novel by Michael Crichton about the dangers of mind control
 * 2010 - A Wizard of Mars, twelfth book in the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane

Film releases
 * 1996 - James and the Giant Peach, a musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick
 * 2008 - A Fox's Tale, a Hungarian animated fantasy film

Television series
 * 1969 - The Space Pirates, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, finishes airing on the BBC

Births
 * 1952 - Pierre Stolze, a French writer whose doctoral thesis was on science fiction

Deaths
 * 1999 - Ricardo Barreiro (b. 1949), an Argentine comic book writer