Forrest Ackerman Research Paper

Forrest Ackerman, a renown Science Fiction specialist, was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles. His grandpa and grandma, George and Bell Herbert, made a huge impact on Ackerman’s interests in monsters and aliens. As a child, his grandmother influenced him by reading ghost stories while his grandpa drew pictures of monsters and aliens and brought him to as many as seven movies a day. His eccentric imagination of extraterrestrials encouraged and sparked his career as a Science Fiction publisher. Ackerman’s broad fancy inspired any writers and films during his generation. By the age of nine Forrest Ackerman already began his career. He won a contest sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1929 and by 1932 caught the attention of Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger the publishers of the first science-fiction fan magazine titled “The Time Traveller”. Ackerman was later hired as a Sci- Fi film …show more content…
This video gave a vivid synopsis of the lives of Ray Bradbury and Forrest Ackerman and their strong influence among countless people within the science fiction genre. Both was and is still an important figure behind the visions of sci-fi books and movies. Their love for what seemed strange during that time aspired many film makers and writers of today. There were many topics on science fiction that I did not know before watching this video including the fact that Forrest Ackerman was the first to coin the tern sci-fi, and that he had a mansion called the Ackermansion which consisted of numerous of rooms filled with magazines, posters, and paintings based on science fiction. I also did not know that Ray Bradbury’s formal education ended when he graduated from high school in 1938. An additional detail that intrigued me was the period of time the idea of science fiction began to