Forrest J. Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," has died.

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He was the monster maker. Although he was Dr. Frankenstein's most devoted assistant, Dracula's loyalest acolyte, Forrest J Ackerman -- who preferred the initial without the period -- didn't actually ...

Forrest J. Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term “sci-fi,” died ...

The man credited with coining the phrase "sci-fi" died this week at the age of 92. Host Andrea Seabrook has this remembrance of Forrest J. Ackerman. A science fiction legend died this week, the man ...

Finally, we take a breath, clear the cobwebs of mourning and peek out from beneath the shadows to find out how the late Forrest J Ackerman continues to do us good. At genre conventions from coast to ...

Fanboy love is an industry now. Film studios and comix publishers court their young, mostly male base and count on it to help turn cult items into mass phenomena. Once, though, fantasy magazines and ...

Forrest J Ackerman (born Forrest James Ackerman; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, ...

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Today is a day we all knew was coming but didn’t want to get here. Horror legend and icon Forrest J. Ackerman is no longer with us. Ackerman died Thursday of heart failure at his Los Angeles home, ...