Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/June/June 5

June 5:

Book releases
 * 2007 - Soon I Will Be Invincible, a science novel by Austin Grossman
 * 2010 - The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, a novella in the Twilight series by author Stephenie Meyer

Film releases
 * 1954 - Gog, a science fiction film directed by Herbert L. Strock
 * 1998 - The Truman Show

Births
 * 1932 - W. Warren Wagar (d. 2004), an American historian, futures studies scholar, and an expert in the work of pioneering science fiction writer H.G. Wells
 * 1938 - Massimo Belardinelli (d. 2007), an Italian comics artist best known for his work in the British science fiction comic 2000 AD
 * 1964 - PJ Haarsma, a Canadian born science fiction author

Deaths
 * 2006 - Karl T. Pflock (b. 1943), an American science fiction and non-fiction author