Barely a week after his 92nd birthday, the great Forrest J. Ackerman passed away yesterday from heart attack.
He was perhaps the godfather of sci-fi (a term he coined) and genre fandom in general. Among other things, he founded and edited the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland which he edited for decades, and he also discovered Ray Bradbury. His Los Angeles home was veritable museum of film which was open to the public every Saturday morning he was home. He was also a writer himself as well as a literary agent as well as a movie and television star.
Forry was one of the greats, and he will be missed.
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