Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 9
Film releases
- 1980 - The Lathe of Heaven, based on the novel of the same name by Ursula K. Le Guin
Television series
- 1996 - 3rd Rock from the Sun begins airing on NBC
Births
- 1931 - Algis Budrys (d. 2008), a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic
Anniversaries and events
- 1958 - X Minus One, a half-hour science fiction radio series, finishes airing on NBC Radio