Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 31

July 31:

Book releases
 * 1989 - Legend of the Galactic Heroes Side Stories volume 4, by Yoshiki Tanaka

Film releases
 * 1992 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres
 * 2007 - Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, an anthology short film set in the Babylon 5 universe, is released directly to DVD

Deaths
 * 2001 - Poul Anderson (b. 1926), an American science fiction and fantasy author