Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/May/May 23

May 23:

Book releases
 * 2006 - Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever by James Patterson

Film releases
 * 1980 - The Shining, a horror film by Stanley Kubrick

Television series
 * 1964 The Aztecs, a serial in the Doctor Who series, begins airing on the BBC
 * 1994 - Star Trek: The Next Generation, an American science fiction television series, finishes airing in first-run syndication
 * 2001 - Star Trek: Voyager, a science fiction television series, finishes airing on UPN

Deaths
 * 2007 - Tron Øgrim (b. 1947), a Norwegian journalist, political and science fiction author, and politician