Catherine Lucille Moore ( January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987 ) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore.

* Cyclops ( 1987 film ), a Japanese science fiction horror film

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks.

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.

Edward Robert Harrison's Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe ( 1987 ) is the definitive account to date of the dark night sky paradox, seen as a problem in the history of science.

As late as 1987 it was still possible to raise the question of structured programming in a computer science journal.

* The TYPES Forum — moderated e-mail forum focusing on type theory in computer science, operating since 1987.

In 1987, the phrase " intelligent design " replaced " creation science " in drafts of a book, Of Pandas and People that was intended for secondary-school students.

The Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear.

WMCF builds on earlier books by Lakoff ( 1987 ) and Lakoff and Johnson ( 1980, 1999 ), which analyze such concepts of metaphor and image schemata from second-generation cognitive science.

Patrick George Troughton ( 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987 ) was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969, reappearing in 1973, 1983 and 1985.

On Friday, 27 March 1987, two days after his 67th birthday, Troughton was a guest at the Magnum Opus Con II science fiction convention in Columbus, Georgia, USA.

To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987.

It was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, and the 1987 Prometheus Award, both science fiction awards.

His 1987 drama Alan Turing featured one of the fathers of modern computer science, who had made significant contributions to breaking German ciphers during World War II.

Spaceballs is a 1987 American science fiction comedy parody film co-written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Bill Pullman, John Candy, Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis.

In 1987, Varela, along with R. Adam Engle, founded the Mind and Life Institute, initially to sponsor a series of dialogues between scientists and His Holiness The Dalai Lama about the relationship between modern science and Buddhism.

* The Kindly Ones ( 1987 ), a science fiction novel by Melissa Scott ( writer )

* Primal Scream ( film ), a 1987 science fiction movie directed by J. William Murray.

is a 1987 Japanese animated science fiction film and the first film produced by Gainax and Bandai Visual.

During 1986 and 1987, Sims starred as Annie Begley alongside Angela Thorne in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Farrington of the F. O .. Also in 1986, Sims appeared in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in the four episodes of The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet as Katryca.

From 1982 through 1987 he hosted the Emmy Award PBS science program Newton's Apple, which originated at KTCA in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The mid and late 1980s also saw Cinemax include a very limited amount of television series on its schedule including the sketch-comedy series Second City Television ( whose U. S. broadcast rights Cinemax had acquired from NBC in 1983 ) and the science fiction series Max Headroom ( which had also aired on ABC from 1987 to 1988 ).

* William Jardine and other Jardine tai-pans are fictionally portrayed in author James Clavell's popular fiction novels Tai-Pan ( 1966 ), Gai-Jin ( 1993 ), Noble House ( 1981 ) and Whirlwind ( 1987 ).

The following are references to year 1987 in fiction:

* The Wandering Fire won the 1987 Aurora Award in the English category, and the 1987 Casper Award for best speculative fiction.

In 1987 a symposium was held in Valkenburg, the Netherlands, titled " Aquatic Ape: Fact or fiction?

* Indochine ( book ), a 1987 historical fiction novel by Christie Dickason.

* January 24-C. L. Moore, science fiction author ( died 1987 )

* March 10-Theodore Cogswell, science fiction author ( died 1987 )

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1987 film ), a made-for-television live action film released in 1987 ; aka Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).

The break-through moment came in the fall of 1987, during the Open Theatre Festival in Wrocław, when the Village Voice reported the Orange Alternative's action known as " Distribution of Toilet Paper " – a happening that satirized the annoying lack of that consumer product at the time.

* Survivor ( video game ), a 1987 8-bit action game

The song, which is a protest, against nuclear weapons, was written in 1987, implying that the Earth could be nearly completely devastated by nuclear weapons in 12 years without any action taken against them.

Passage of the Administrative Litigation Law of 1987 created legal recourse for individuals from arbitrary government action, an avenue previously unavailable.

Later Lethal Weapon ( 1987 ), proved that low-budget action plots ( like a maverick cop with martial arts skills fighting drug traffickers ), given the " Hollywood A-list " treatment ( bigger budgets, more talented casts, etc.

In January 1987, they visited the offices of Playmates Toys Inc, a small California toy company who wished to expand into the action figure market.

Accompanied by the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series, and the subsequent action figure line, the TMNT were soon catapulted into pop culture history.

Following FIA's banning of Group B cars for 1987, in May after Henri Toivonen's fatal accident, Todt was outraged and even ( unsuccessfully ) pursued legal action against the federation.

The Abbey's organ, located in the North Transept was installed in 1858 by Gray & Davison, and completely rebuilt in 1955 by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd, though that restoration's action failed by 1987 and had to be replaced.

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs ( 1992 ) was reworked from Lam's City on Fire ( 1987 ), and critics have indicated that there are shot-by-shot copies of certain action sequences.

Survivor is an action game released in 1987 by the Spanish software house Topo Soft and later re-released in the UK by U. S. Gold.

In 1987 he entered Harvard University, where he took anthropology, live action film, and animation courses, eventually majoring in social anthropology and graduated from Harvard in 1991 with honors.

He is credited with about ten scripts between 1982 and 1987, covering an array of genres from romantic comedy to action drama, but claims to have worked to some extent or another on about fifty more without official credit.

The concept of permanent power-ups that are progressively unlocked dates back to the early NES action RPGs, Deadly Towers ( 1986 ) and Rygar ( 1987 ), which blurred the line between the power-ups used in action-adventures and the experience points used in role-playing video games.

The Hungerford killings in 1987 was followed by the Firearms Act 1988 which banned centre-fire self-loading and pump action rifles and extended compulsory security to shotguns.

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, and Kevin Peter Hall.

Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film and the first in a series of films, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of LAPD detectives, and Gary Busey as their primary adversary.

The concept of permanent power-ups dates back to the early NES action RPGs, Deadly Towers ( 1986 ) and Rygar ( 1987 ), which blurred the line between the power-ups used in action-adventures and the experience points used in console RPGs.

* Top Secret ( arcade game ) or Bionic Commando, a 1987 action platform game

ACT UP held their next action at the New York City General Post Office on the night of April 15, 1987, to a captive audience of people filing last minute tax returns.