Glen David Brin was born on October 6, 1950 in Glendale, California, USA. David Brin's career as a science fiction writer began while he was still studying for...

On October 2, 1959, the TV show 'The Twilight Zone' made its debut in the USA. It lasted until 1964 for a total of 5 seasons. In the following decades it had...

John Finney was born on October 2, 1911 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His birth name was John Finney but after the death of his father, when he was three years old,...

On September 29, 1967, in the UK, the TV show 'The Prisoner' made its debut. Some sources report October 1 as its debut date: at that time, an episode of a...

Enrico Fermi was born on September 29, 1901 in Rome, Italy. He was a brilliant physicist in both theoretic and experimental works. He was awarded the Nobel...

On September 28, 1987 the TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' made its debut, set about a century after the original Star Trek series. The show went of...

John Kilian Houston Brunner was born on September 24, 1934 in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. During his career he wrote a lot of...

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, a suburb of Greater London, England. Thanks to a number of novels H.G. Wells was already...

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, USA. In 1974 Stephen King published his first novel, 'Carrie', which had little success...

On September 20, 2002, the TV show 'Firefly' made its debut on Fox. 'Firefly' is set in 2517 in a colonized solar system after Earth, overpopulated and...

George Raymond Martin, this is his birth name, was born on September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. Years later he added the name Richard after chosing...

Tanith Lee was born on September 19, 1947 in London, England. Tanith Lee's debut as a writer took place in 1968 with a very short story, of only 90 words,...

Damon Francis Knight was born on September 19, 1922 in Baker, Oregon. During his life he's been a science fiction writer, editor and critic. He was also the...

A little while ago, the Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus spacecraft took off on an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), part of...

Norman Richard Spinrad was born on September 15, 1940 in New York, USA. Norman Spinrad earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in...

Walter Marvin Koenig was born on September 14, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He's famous especially for playing Pavel Chekov in 'Star Trek', from the...

On September 10, 1993 the TV show 'The X-Files' made its debut in the USA. A celebration of the 20th anniversary already happened at the Comic-Con in San Diego...

On September 8, 1966 the TV show 'Star Trek' made its debut in the USA. Today it's also referred to as the original series to distinguish it from the shows...

News arrived of the death of Michael S. Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg. He fought to encourage the creation and distribution of books in electronic...

Patricia J. Tallman was born on September 4, 1957 in Pontiac, Illinois, USA. She worked as an actress in a lot of theater, cinema and television productions...

The news arrived of the death of writer Peter Straub, which happened on September 4. According to the information that emerged, his death occurred due to...

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. During his career as a writer he published series that are still reprinted after...

Carolyn Janice Cherry, this is her real name, was born on September 1, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri. She has wrote more than 60 science fiction and fantasy...

The news arrived that the writer and screenwriter Terrance Dicks died on August 29. No details were provided on his death, official statements indicate only...

Amanda Tapping was born on August 28, 1965 in Rochford, Essex, England. When she was three years old her family moved to Ontario, Canada. She's famous...

Yesterday, Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, passed away. Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. On July...

Timothy Walter Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California, USA. Tim Burton developed a passion for cinema since his childhood and started...

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds (photo ©Krd) announced in a message on the comp.os.minix newsgroup the project of a new operating system that actually...

Alice Hastings Bradley, this was her birth name, was born on August 24, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In the second half of the '60s, she started writing...

Peter Lindsay Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, Australia. He directed, produced and scripted many successful movies winning many international...

Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, this is his real name, was born on August 20, 1943, in Dunoon, Scotland. With the stage name Sylvester McCoy he had a long...

Greg Egan was born on August 20, 1961, in Perth, Australia. His novels are: 'Quarantine', 'Permutation City', 'Distress', 'Diaspora', 'Teranesia', 'Schild's...