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Sci-fi 'creator' Forrest Ackerman RIP

mike65 · 2008-12-08 14:44:33

Bit of a landmark passing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7769184.stm

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Bit of a landmark passing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7769184.stm

Forrest Ackerman, a writer and editor credited with discovering the author Ray Bradbury and coining the term "sci-fi", has died, aged 92.

Ackerman died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, said a spokesman.

Ackerman's achievements included founding the sci-fi pulp magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. But he is probably best known for finding Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles, when looking for people to join a sci-fi club he was starting up.

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