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April 15:

Book releases
 * 1997 - Absolute Magnitude, an anthology collecting stories from the magazine of the same title
 * 2010 - A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files
 * 2010 - Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, by Fritz Leiber
 * 2010 - The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories by Walter Jon Williams
 * 2010 - I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick by Laurence A. Rickels
 * 2010 - The Lord of the Void by James Lovegrove
 * 2010 - Nieve by Terry Griggs

Television series
 * 1989 - The Twilight Zone, the revival of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series, finishes airing in first-run syndication

Births
 * 1908 - Howard Browne (d. 1999), a science fiction editor and mystery writer
 * 1918 - Denis McLoughlin (d. 2002), a well-known British illustrator known for his hard-boiled detective illustrations and science fiction works
 * 1925 or 1927 - Jerry Grandenetti, an American comic book artist and advertising art director
 * 1931 - Sally Miller Gearhart, an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist
 * 1937 - Tom Sutton (d. 2002), an American comic book artist

Deaths
 * 1912 - John Jacob Astor IV (b. 1864), an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic
 * 1993 - Alberto Giolitti (b. 1923), an Italian-American comic book artist
 * 1997 - Sam Moskowitz (b. 1920), an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer, critic, and historian of the field
 * 2002 - Damon Knight (b. 1922), an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan

Anniversaries and events
 * 1975 - Dune, by Frank Herbert, is voted the "all-time best science-fiction novel" by a poll of readers of Locus
 * 1985 - 6371 Heinlein, a main-belt asteroid named for Robert A. Heinlein, is discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell