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Sci-fi Legend Forrest Ackerman Dies

Forrest Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent and magazine editor who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term “sci-fi,” has died at the age of 92. From the Associated Press: Ackerman died Thursday of heart failure at his Los Angeles home, said Kevin Burns, head of Prometheus Entertainment and a trustee of Ackerman’s estate. Although only marginally known to readers of mainstream literature, Ackerman was legendary in science-fiction circles as the found

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Sci-fi Legend Forrest Ackerman Dies