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April 3:

Book releases
 * 2007 - Skin, a contemporary Christian fiction science fiction/horror novel by Ted Dekker

Film releases
 * 1987 - Making Mr. Right, a science fiction/comedy film
 * 2005 - Man with the Screaming Brain, science fiction/slapstick film directed by, co-written by, and starring Bruce Campbell
 * 2009 - Alien Trespass, a science-fiction comedy film based on 1950s sci-fi B movies

Television series
 * 1999 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, begins airing on PPV/DirecTV and The WB

Births
 * 1927 - Donald M. Grant (d. 2009), an American publisher and winner of five World Fantasy Awards

Deaths
 * 1990 - Sloan Nibley (b. 1908), an American screenwriter known for his work on Science Fiction Theatre, The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, and The Addams Family