Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/May/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