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Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/June/June 8

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June 8:

Book releases

Births

Deaths

  • 1942 - Morley Roberts (b. 1857), an English science fiction novelist and short story writer
  • 1947 - Murray Leinster (b. 1896), the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history
  • 1997 - George Turner (b. 1916), an Australian science fiction writer and critic
  • 1997 - Amos Tutuola (b. 1920), a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales