Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 5
Book releases
- 2004 - Skyfall by Catherine Asaro
- 2008 - The Last Theorem by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
Births
- 1943 - Kathleen Sky, the pen name of Kathleen Mckinney Goldin, an American science fiction and fantasy author
- 1947 - Élisabeth Vonarburg, Franco-Canadian science fiction author, Worldcon Guest of Honor
- 1948 - Larry Elmore, American fantasy artist
Deaths
- 2002 - Franco Lucentini (b.1920), an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies