Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/May/May 8

May 8:

Film releases
 * 1998 - Deep Impact, a 1998 disaster science fiction film

Television series
 * 1984 - V: The Final Battle, an American science fiction miniseries, finishes airing on NBC

Deaths
 * 1988 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (d. 1907)
 * 1993 - Avram Davidson (b. 1923), an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction