Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/May/May 27
Book releases
- 2003 - Year's Best SF 8, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- 2007 - Year's Best SF 12, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- 2008 - Year's Best SF 13, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Television series
- 2000 - Early Edition finishes airing on CBS
- 2010 - FlashForward finishes airing on ABC
Births
- 1930 - Axel Madsen (d. 2007), a Danish-American biographer, journalist, and science fiction novelist
- 1934 - Harlan Ellison, an American speculative fiction writer
Deaths
- 1981 - George O. Smith (b. 1911), an American science fiction author
Anniversaries and events
- 1962 - The first Nihon SF Taikai, MEG-CON, is held in Caravan Hall in Tokyo