Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/May/May 27

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