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 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.

Ackerman was credited with nurturing and even inspiring the careers of several early contemporaries like Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Charles Beaumont, Marion Zimmer Bradley and L. Ron Hubbard.

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.

Susan Ackerman also believes that there is highly eroticized language present in six different sections in the Hebrew Bible in regards to the relationship of David and Jonathan.

In 1997, Ackerman filed a civil lawsuit against Ferry for libel, breach of contract, and misrepresentation ; Ferry had publicly claimed that Ackerman ’ s only connection with the new FM was as a hired hand and that Ferry “ had to let Forry go ” because he was no longer writing or editing for the magazine.

Ferry also claimed rights to pen names and other personal properties of Ackerman.

Congressmen Dr Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on " Free Software in Public Administration ".

He is arrested by a ' Star patrol but saved by his future self, who informs him that Ackerman and the rest of the crew at TF & D have taken a stand against Lilistar, using Ackerman's getaway on Mars as their hideout.

Some of Penn's former faculty members have continued their carriers at other institutions, e. g. Bruce Ackerman ( now at Yale ), Lani Guinier ( now at Harvard ), Michael H. Schill ( now at Chicago ), and Myron T. Steele ( now at Virginia ).

Nick Ackerman, the wrestler who won the Division III national championship despite having no legs, was an ATO, as were some of the most prominent names at Simpson College, including Bill Buxton, Bill Buxton, Jr., Dick Buxton, and James Weinman, all of whom have facilities on campus named in their honor.

According to Robert Ackerman, " he reason the Ritualists have fallen into disfavor ... is not that their assertions have been controverted by new information.

Notable contributors have included Barry Michael Cooper, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Byron Coley, Kim France, Tad Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, Andy Greenwald, William T. Vollman, Will Hermes, Dave Itzkoff, David Bourgeois, John Leland, Bart Bull, Greil Marcus, Matt Groening, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Glenn O ' Brien, Norman Mailer, R. Meltzer, Karen Schoemer, Marilyn Manson, William S. Burroughs, Anton Corbijn, Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jon Dolan, Rob Tannenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Strawberry Saroyan, Paul Beahan ( founder of Manimal Vinyl ), Michael O ' Donoghue, Bönz Malone, Hari Kondabolu, Dan Ackerman, and Marc Spitz.

Despite the later emergence of games that resemble Master of Magic ( such as the Age of Wonders series ), reviewers like Kyle Ackerman and GameSpot editor, Andrew Park, have stated that the game's essence has not yet been re-captured.

Social Justice in the Liberal State is a book written by Bruce A. Ackerman, recipient of the French Order of Merit, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy.

Ackerman argues for a maximal separation doctrine in that religion does not have an appropriate place in the public realm of a liberal democracy.

The magazine regularly published photos from King Kong ( 1933 ), including one from the film's infamous " spider pit sequence ", featured in Issue # 108 ( 1974 ) which, until Ackerman discovered a photo of a spider in the cavern setting, had never been proven definitively to have actually been filmed.

Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.

Sometime later, Pulovski, Ackerman and Garcia have been promoted.

Since Santoro did not have an agent in North America, Ackerman contacted Santoro's father.

Fishkin and Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman have proposed a national holiday called Deliberation Day to allow voters to gather in large and small groups to discuss political issues.

Ackerman and his wife, Linda, who married in 1968, have three children, Lauren, Marc, and Brett, and two granddaughters, Caitlin and Elizabeth.

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.

Scholars such as Bruce Ackerman have pointed to the Court's decision in Stuart v. Laird as part of the opposition Federalist Court's accommodation of the new Jeffersonian political regime.

Raymond Ackerman was chairman until he stepped down in 2010.

In trying to determine Pulovski's whereabouts, Ackerman tracks down one of Strom's henchmen named Loco.

On February 1, 2005 Ackerman stepped down, and Donna Orender was named as her successor.