Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 1

August 1:

Book releases
 * 2007 - Happiness Is a Squishy Cephalopod, the first Liō collection, by Mark Tatulli
 * 2008 - Silent But Deadly, the second Liō collection, by Mark Tatulli
 * 2010 - I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Film releases
 * 1970 - Space Amoeba, a tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho

Television series
 * 1964 The Sensorites, a serial in the Doctor Who series, finishes airing on the BBC

Births
 * 1904 - Russell R. Winterbotham (d. 1971), an American writer of westerns, crime fiction, and science fiction

Anniversaries and events
 * 1868 - The Steam Man of the Prairies, the first U.S. science fiction dime novel is published in August (exact date unknown)
 * 1928 - Buck Rogers (then named "Anthony Rogers") makes his first appearance in the novella "Armageddon 2419 A.D." by Philip Francis Nowlan