Forrest J. Ackerman ( born Forrest James Ackerman ; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008 ) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

Also called " Forry ," " The Ackermonster ," " 4e " and " 4SJ ," Ackerman was central to the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom, and a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art and film genre.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Ackerman was fluent in the international language Esperanto, and claimed to have walked down Hollywood Boulevard arm-in-arm with Leo G. Carroll singing La Espero, the hymn of Esperanto.

Ackerman was an early member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Science Fiction League, and became so active in and important to the club, that in essence he ran it, including after the name change the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a prominent regional organization, as well as the National Fantasy Fan Federation ( N3F ).

Ackerman was a board member of the Seattle Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, where many items of his collection are now displayed.

He kept all of the stories submitted to his magazine, even the ones he rejected ; Stephen King has stated that Ackerman showed up to a King book signing with a copy of a story King had submitted for publication when he was 11.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

Bradbury was invited by Forrest J. Ackerman to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met at Clifton's Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.

Though much of the dialogue in Curb Your Enthusiasm is improvised, the plot was scripted, and the Seinfeld special that aired within the show was scripted and directed by Seinfeld regular Andy Ackerman, making this the first time since Seinfeld went off the air that the central cast appeared together in a scripted show.

It was originally described in detail by Yale Law School professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres in their 2004 book Voting with Dollars: A new paradigm for campaign finance.

Jon D. Levenson, Susan Nidditch and Susan Ackerman have stated that at least some Israelites believed child sacrifice was a legitimate part of ancient Israelite religion.

An island in the middle of the Arkansas River, named Ackerman Island was home to an amusement park, and a dance pavilion.

It was incorporated under a city manager government in 1968, the first city manager being J. M. Ackerman.

The act was a hit and convinced CBS executive Harry Ackerman that a Ball-Arnaz pairing would be a worthwhile venture.

Meeting Burke " was not purely kismet ," as Wexler and Ertegun were aware of Burke and his talent, as " Wexler ’ s former mentor at Billboard, Paul Ackerman, had been urging him to sign Burke for several years ," but were waiting for Burke's contract with Apollo Records to expire.

CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed.

Similarly, Blaster Al Ackerman declared himself a " Salmineoist " after Sicilian-American actor Sal Mineo, and John Berndt was credited by Ackerman as having given Neoism the name " Spanish Art ," circa 1983.

Bradbury often attended meetings with his friend Ray Harryhausen ; the two Rays had been introduced to each other by Ackerman.

Ackerman had 50 stories published, including collaborations with A. E. van Vogt, Francis Flagg, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wollheim and Catherine Moore and the world's shortest – one letter of the alphabet.

However, it turned out that in order to get Ackerman home, the hospital had cured his infection with antibiotics.

" Forrest J Ackerman is interred at Glendale Forest Lawn with his wife Wendayne " Rocket To The Rue Morgue " Ackerman.

* Interview and shoot with Forrest J Ackerman, Bizarre Magazine

* Audio Interview with Forrest J Ackerman

Gros Louis, with James S. Ackerman & Thayer S. Warshaw, 120 – 40.

In January 1932, the New York City circle, which by then included future comic book editors Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger, brought out the first issue of their own publication, The Time Traveller, with Forrest J Ackerman of the embryonic Los Angeles group as a contributing editor.

On October 21, 2004, Val Ackerman, the first WNBA president, announced her resignation, effective February 1, 2005, citing the desire to spend more time with her family.

The Convention of Ackerman in 1826, the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829 and finally, the Hatt-i Sharif, recognized the suzerainty of Serbia with Miloš Obrenović I as its hereditary Prince.

Forrest J Ackerman wrote in Astounding that Triffids " is extraordinarily well carried out, with the exception of a somewhat anticlimactic if perhaps inevitable conclusion.

Most of the officials were elected in 2004 with Debra Ackerman being specially elected to replace Brian Hill.

Mississippi Highway 15 enters from the north from Ackerman, MS, then meets up with Mississippi Highway 25 just north of Louisville.

* Forrest J. Ackerman as Forry ( Tourist at Zoo with Monsters of Filmland magazine )

Fans around the world knew Ackerman by three letters " 4sj " or even two: " 4e " for " Forry.

However, there is evidence that proteins are never truly random coils, even when denatured ( Shortle & Ackerman ).

While the wearing of costumes — and even a costume competition ( known in the United States as a " masquerade ")— has been an occasional feature of traditional science-fiction conventions since Forrest J Ackerman wore one during the First World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, this has never been the dominant feature of such events.

" It was the ability to do the right thing even at the risk of their personal safety that guided these soldiers to do what they did ," then-Major General Michael Ackerman said at the 1998 ceremony.

" It was the ability to do the right thing even at the risk of their personal safety that guided these soldiers to do what they did ," then-Major General Michael Ackerman said at the 1998 ceremony.

" It was the ability to do the right thing even at the risk of their personal safety that guided these soldiers to do what they did ," then-Major General Michael Ackerman said at the ceremony.

The Homeodynamic principle was a term used by Nathan Ackerman, referring to his observations, in the course of family therapy, that families have a basic dynamic, and following an interruption to that dynamic ( for example, an intervention by a psychotherapist ), the previous family patterns tend to re-emerge, i. e., the family soon returns to its basic patterns, even if those patterns are dysfunctional.

Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a " Tuscan order ", " the solidest and least ornate ", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di Architettura ... sopra le cinque maniere io fra le antichità di Roma trovato ornamento toscano " in Ackerman 1983: 17 note 11 ); Ackerman identifies some plausibly Tuscan elements in several early 16th-century architectural drawings of unidentified Roman remains .</ ref > and so did Leon Battista Alberti in De re aedificatoria ( shortly before 1452 ).

Trimble says that she met John Trimble under Forrest J Ackerman ’ s piano, where several fans had taken refuge during a particularly crowded party.

The film features interviews with Ackerman and several of the current top names in the science fiction genre, including Peter Jackson and Rick Baker, who attest to the influence of the magazine and of Ackerman himself.

But in 1943, at the behest of Columbia history professor and former Philo president Jacques Barzun ( Class of 1927 ), several undergraduates competed for the Philolexian Centennial Washington Prize, an oratory competition endowed by J. Ackerman Coles ( Class of 1864 ), bestowed on the society on the occasion of its centennial in 1902.