Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 7

August 7:

Book releases
 * 2007 - Sandworms of Dune, a science fiction novel written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Births
 * 1933 - Jerry Pournelle, an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist

Deaths
 * 1940 - T. O'Conor Sloane (b. 1851), the editor of Amazing Stories from 1929 through 1938