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November 9:

Book releases
 * 2010 - The Sentinels by R. A. Salvatore and Geno Salvatore
 * 2010 - Wicked City: The Scarlet Clan by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Television series
 * 1963 - Emerald Soup, a British children's science fiction television series, begins airing on the Associated British Corporation network
 * 1998 - Welcome to Paradox, a science fiction television series, finishes airing on the Sci Fi Channel

Births
 * 1914 - Pavel Vezhinov (d. 1983), a Bulgarian science fiction writer
 * 1924 - Riichiro Manabe, a Japanese composer who wrote the scores for numerous science fiction, horror, and kaiju films
 * 1924 - Larry Shaw (d. 1985), a Hugo Award-winning science fiction fan, author, editor, and literary agent
 * 1934 - Carl Sagan (d. 1996), an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist
 * 1947 - Herbert Wright, a science fiction writer and producer

Deaths
 * 1988 - Billy Curtis (b. 1909), an American film and television actor known for his work mainly in Westerns and in science fiction films