Forrest J. Ackerman

Forrest J Ackerman (also Forrest J. Ackerman), born November 24 1916 and still living and active, is often called "Forry" or "4e" or "4SJ", and is a legendary science fiction fan, as well as an occasional author, actor, producer (Vampirella), magazine editor and literary agent of many of the science fiction greats. Although he is best known to baby-boomers as editor-writer of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, this is actually only one facet of his enormous influence on the origination, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom and of science fiction as a respectable literary, art and film genre from its inception in the early 1920s to the present.

Works

Non-fiction

• A Reference Guide to American Science Fiction Films
• Forrest J Ackerman's World of Science Fiction
• Famous Forrie Fotos: Over 70 Years of Ackermemories
• Mr. Monster's Movie Gold, A Treasure-Trove Of Imagi-Movies

Anthologies

• Rainbow Fantasia: 35 Spectrumatic Tales of Wonder
• Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J. Ackerman
• Best Science Fiction for 1973
• Gernsback Awards 1926
• The Gernsback Awards Vol. 1, 1926
• Gosh! Wow! (Sense of Wonder) Science Fiction
• Gosh! Wow!
• Reel Future
• I, Vampire: Interviews with the Undead
• Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts
• Ackermanthology: Millennium Edition: 65 Astonishing Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts
• Film Futures

Short stories

• Nymph of Darkness
• The Shortest SF Story Ever Written
• A Martian Oddity
• Nymph of Darkness
• Earth's Lucky Day
• The Record
• Micro Man
• Tarzan and the Golden Lion
• Dhactwhu!-Remember?
• A Martian Oddity
• The Mute Question
• Atoms and Stars
• The Lady Takes a Powder
• Sabina
• What an Idea!
• Death Rides the Spaceways
• Dwellers in the Dust
• Burn Witch, Burn
• The Girl Who Wasn't There
• Count Down to Doom
• Time to Change
• And Then the Cover Was Bare
• The Atomic Monument
• Letter to an Angel
• The Man Who Was Thirsty
• The Radclyffe Effect
• Cosmic Report Card: Earth