Forrest J. Ackerman (1916–2008), RIP.
A good and, within a tiny subculture, great man has died.
I hadn’t even finished the tribute issue of Rue Morgue I picked up just because of the cover with him on it. I was never a devoted FM reader, but I had a few copies and enjoyed the heck out of them.
GorT will be interested to learn (if he didn’t already know) that Forrie coined the term “sci-fi.”
Ripozu en paco.
Caption: The first issue I ever bought, in Ocean City, Maryland, in the summer of 1978.
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.