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August 31:

Book releases
 * 2010 - The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
 * 2010 - The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence by Susan Cooper
 * 2010 - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Births
 * 1933 - Robert Adams (d. 1990), an American science fiction and fantasy writer

Deaths
 * 1965 - E. E. Smith (b. 1890), a food engineer and early science fiction author best known for his Lensman and Skylark series