Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 2

August 2:

Book releases
 * 2003 - Blind Lake, a science fiction novel by author Robert Charles Wilson
 * 2007 - Spook Country, novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson

Film releases
 * 1946 - Boom in the Moon, a Mexican science fiction comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador
 * 1980 - Contamination, a science fiction horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi
 * 1985 - Weird Science, an American teen comedy science fiction film written and directed by John Hughes
 * 2002 - Signs, a science fiction thriller film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
 * 2005 - Cypher, a Canadian sci-fi thriller

Births
 * 1939 - Wes Craven, an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films
 * 1951 - John Wilson, a Canadian historical fiction and science fiction author
 * 1970 - Kevin Smith, an American screenwriter, film producer, and director, as well as a comic book writer, author, comedian, and actor

Deaths
 * 1997 - William S. Burroughs (b. 1914), an American novelist, poet, essayist, painter and spoken word performer