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Forrest J Ackerman

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Forrest J Ackerman (born Forrest James Ackerman; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films, and acknowledged as the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia. [1]

141 relations: A. E. van Vogt, Al Goldstein, Amazing Stories, Amazon Women on the Moon, American Heritage Center, Argentina, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, B movie, Battle of the Bulge, Billy Bob Thornton, Bram Stoker Award, Buzz Aldrin, C. L. Moore, California, Charles Beaumont, Comics Buyer's Guide, Cosplay, Curse of the Queerwolf, Curt Siodmak, Danny Elfman, Daughters of Bilitis, David Gerrold, David McDaniel, Donald A. Wollheim, Donald F. Glut, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Ed Wood, Elise Matthesen, Emil Petaja, Esperanto, Fallen Angels (science fiction novel), Famous Monsters of Filmland, Fantasy, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Fort MacArthur, Frank Darabont, Frankenstein, Fredric Brown, Future War, Futuria Fantasia, Gene Simmons, George Burns, George Henry Weiss, George Lucas, George Wyman, Haji (actress), Hard to Die, Henry Kuttner, Hollywood Boulevard, Horror film, ..., Horror punk, Huell Howser, Hugo Award, Innocent Blood (film), International auxiliary language, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Jason V. Brock, Jerry Pournelle, Jerry Siegel, Joe Dante, Joe Shuster, John Clute, John Landis, Kiss (band), Kitten Natividad, L. Ron Hubbard, La Espero, Larry Niven, Leigh Brackett, Leo G. Carroll, Lesbian, List of science-fiction authors, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Michael Flynn (writer), Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video), Michael Shannon, Museum of Pop Culture, National Fantasy Fan Federation, Neologism, Nudist Colony of the Dead, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, One Glorious Day, Penn & Teller, Perry Rhodan, Peter Jackson, Peter Pan, Philip José Farmer, Premium Rush, Projectionist, Raven De La Croix, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Return of the Living Dead Part II, Rick Baker, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Robert Bloch, Russ Meyer, Scalps, Science fiction fandom, Science fiction film, Science fiction magazine, Science-fiction fanzine, Seattle, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Staff sergeant, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Superman, Syracuse University, The Aftermath (1982 film), The Double-D Avenger, The Flying Sorcerers, The Guardian, The Howling (film), The Independent, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Reign of the Superman, The Time Travelers (1964 film), The Time Traveller (fanzine), The Wizard of Speed and Time, Tim Burton, Time (magazine), Tobor the Great, Transylvania Twist, United Press International, United States Army, University of California, Berkeley, University of Wyoming, Vampirella, Vice Versa (magazine), Vietnam War, William Winckler, Word play, World Fantasy Award, Worldcon, 1st World Science Fiction Convention. Expand index (91 more) »

A. E. van Vogt

Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author.

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Al Goldstein

Alvin "Al" Goldstein (January 10, 1936 – December 19, 2013) was an American pornographer.

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Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.

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Amazon Women on the Moon

Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 American satirical comedy film that parodies the experience of watching low-budget movies on late-night television.

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American Heritage Center

The American Heritage Center is the University of Wyoming's repository of manuscripts, rare books, and the university archives.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold is a 1995 satirical science fiction film starring J.J. North, Ted Monte, Tammy Parks, Raelyn Saalman, Nikki Fritz, John LaZar, Michelle Bauer, Tim Abell, and Jay Richardson.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Bram Stoker Award

The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing.

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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer, former astronaut, and Command Pilot in the United States Air Force.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Charles Beaumont

Charles Beaumont (January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967) was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres.

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Comics Buyer's Guide

Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG), established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry.

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Cosplay

, a contraction of the words costume play, is a hobby in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.

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Curse of the Queerwolf

Curse of the Queerwolf is a 1988 comedy horror film directed by Mark Pirro.

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Curt Siodmak

Curt Siodmak (August 10, 1902 – September 2, 2000) was a German-American novelist and screenwriter.

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Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Daughters of Bilitis

The Daughters of Bilitis, also called the DOB or the Daughters, was the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States.

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David Gerrold

David Gerrold (born January 24, 1944)Reginald, R. (September 12, 2010).

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David McDaniel

David Edward McDaniel (June 16, 1939 – November 1, 1977) was an American science fiction author, who also wrote spy fiction, including several novels based upon the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

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Donald A. Wollheim

Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 – November 2, 1990) was an American science fiction editor, publisher, writer, and fan.

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Donald F. Glut

Donald F. Glut (born February 19, 1944) is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter.

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Dracula vs. Frankenstein

Dracula vs.

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Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author.

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Elise Matthesen

Elise Matthesen (née Krueger; born in Wisconsin in 1960) is an American essayist, journalist, poet, and fiction writer (primarily of science fiction and fantasy; she is an active supporter of the interstitial arts movement), and a crafter of art jewelry and a long time Bisexual Rights Activist.

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Emil Petaja

Emil Petaja (12 April 1915 – 17 August 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades.

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Esperanto

Esperanto (or; Esperanto) is a constructed international auxiliary language.

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Fallen Angels (science fiction novel)

Fallen Angels (1991) is a science fiction novel by American science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn published by Jim Baen.

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Famous Monsters of Filmland

Famous Monsters of Filmland is an American genre-specific film magazine, started in 1958 by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, US.

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Fort MacArthur

Fort MacArthur is a former United States Army installation in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California (now the port community of Los Angeles).

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Frank Darabont

Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer.

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Future War

Future War is a 1997 American direct-to-video science fiction film about an escaped human slave fleeing his cyborg masters and seeking refuge on Earth.

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Futuria Fantasia

Futuria Fantasia was an American science fiction fanzine created by Ray Bradbury in 1938, when he was 18 years old.

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Gene Simmons

Gene Klein, born Chaim Witz (חיים ויץ,, born August 25, 1949), known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, author and television personality.

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George Burns

George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and writer.

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George Henry Weiss

Henry George Weiss (1898–1946) was an American poet, writer and novelist.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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George Wyman

George Herbert Wyman (1860 – 1939) was an American architect, best known for designing the Bradbury Building at 304 South Broadway in Los Angeles, California.

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Haji (actress)

Haji (born Barbarella Catton; January 24, 1946 – August 9, 2013) was a Canadian-born actress of British and Filipino descent, and a former exotic dancer known for her role in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.

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Hard to Die

Hard to Die (also known as Tower of Terror) is a 1990 American action comedy film written by Mark Thomas McGee and James B. Rogers, directed by Jim Wynorski, and starring Gail Harris and Melissa Moore.

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Henry Kuttner

Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

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Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard is a major east–west street in Los Angeles, California.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Horror punk

Horror punk (sometimes called horror rock) is a music genre that mixes proto-gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics, which are often influenced by horror films or science fiction B-movies.

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Huell Howser

Huell Burnley Howser (October 18, 1945 – January 7, 2013) was an American television personality, actor, producer, writer, singer, and voice artist, best known for hosting, producing, and writing California's Gold, his human interest show produced by KCET in Los Angeles for California PBS stations.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Innocent Blood (film)

Innocent Blood (also known in some regions as A French Vampire in America) is a 1992 American crime comedy horror film directed by John Landis and written by Michael Wolk.

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International auxiliary language

An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) or interlanguage is a language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common first language.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jack Williamson

John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988.

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Jason V. Brock

Jason V. Brock (born March 1, 1970) is an American, and filmmaker.

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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.

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Jerry Siegel

Jerome Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996),Roger Stern.

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Joe Dante

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor.

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Joe Shuster

Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938).

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John Clute

John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction (also SF, sf) and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969.

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John Landis

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Kitten Natividad

Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua State, Mexico; 13 February 1948) is a Mexican American film actress, exotic dancer and porn star, noted for her 44-inch chest and appearances in cult films by her ex-partner, director Russ Meyer.

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L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), often referred to by his initials LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology.

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La Espero

"La Espero" ("The Hope") is a poem written by Polish-Jewish doctor L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Leigh Brackett

Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera.

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Leo G. Carroll

Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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List of science-fiction authors

Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate or did not work in that genre.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society

The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Inc., or LASFS, is a science fiction society that meets in the Los Angeles area.

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Los Feliz, Los Angeles

Los Feliz is a hillside neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series.

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Michael Flynn (writer)

Michael Francis Flynn (born 1947) is an American statistician and science fiction author.

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Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)

Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 14-minute horror-themed music video for the song of the same name, released on December 2, 1983.

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Michael Shannon

Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor and musician.

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Museum of Pop Culture

The Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP (earlier called EMP Museum) is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture.

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National Fantasy Fan Federation

The National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F or NFFF) is one of the world's oldest science fiction fandom organizations.

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Neologism

A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.

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Nudist Colony of the Dead

Nudist Colony of the Dead is a 1991 horror comedy musical film written and directed by Mark Pirro (who has also worked under the names Marky Dolittle and Marky Elfman).

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir by American author Stephen King that describes his experiences as a writer and his advice for aspiring writers.

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One Glorious Day

One Glorious Day is a lost 1922 American fantasy comedy silent film directed by James Cruze and written by Barry Barringer and Walter Woods.

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Penn & Teller

Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are American magicians and entertainers who have performed together since the late 1970s, noted for their ongoing act which combines elements of comedy with magic.

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Perry Rhodan

Perry Rhodan is the eponymous hero of a German science fiction novel series which has been published each week since 8 September 1961 in the 'Romanhefte' format (digest-sized booklets, usually containing 66 pages, the German equivalent of the now-defunct American pulp magazine) by, a subsidiary of Bauer Media Group.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.

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Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

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Premium Rush

Premium Rush is a 2012 American action-thriller film directed by David Koepp and written by Koepp and John Kamps.

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Projectionist

A projectionist is a person who operates a movie projector.

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Raven De La Croix

Raven De La Croix (born Lynn Christie Martin on August 24, 1947) is an American actress and stripper known for her lead role in the 1976 Russ Meyer film Up!.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation".

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Return of the Living Dead Part II

Return of the Living Dead Part II is a 1988 American comedy horror film written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn.

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Rick Baker

Richard A. Baker (born December 8, 1950) is a retired American special make-up effects creator, mostly known for his creature effects and designs.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (See also the biography at the end of For Us, the Living, 2004 edition, p. 261. July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer.

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Robert A. W. Lowndes

Robert Augustine Ward "Doc" Lowndes (September 4, 1916 – July 14, 1998) was an American science fiction author, editor and fan.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Russ Meyer

Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editor, actor, and photographer.

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Scalps

Scalps is a 1983 American horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray that concerns a vengeful Native American spirit.

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Science fiction fandom

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Science fiction magazine

A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet.

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Science-fiction fanzine

A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game based on the "six degrees of separation" concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.

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Staff sergeant

Staff sergeant is a rank of non-commissioned officer used in the armed forces of several countries.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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The Aftermath (1982 film)

The Aftermath (also known as Zombie Aftermath) is a 1982 science fiction, horror, and action independent film.

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The Double-D Avenger

The Double-D Avenger is a 2001 American comedy film by William Winckler.

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The Flying Sorcerers

The Flying Sorcerers is a humorous 1971 science fiction novel by American writers David Gerrold and Larry Niven.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Howling (film)

The Howling is a 1981 American horror film directed by Joe Dante, and starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, and Robert Picardo.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC.

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The Reign of the Superman

"The Reign of the Superman" (January 1933) is a short story written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Joe Shuster.

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The Time Travelers (1964 film)

The Time Travelers (a.k.a. Time Trap) is a 1964 science-fiction film directed by B-movie director Ib Melchior.

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The Time Traveller (fanzine)

The Time Traveller was one of the earliest science fiction fanzines, started in 1932.

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The Wizard of Speed and Time

The Wizard of Speed and Time is a 1989 low-budget feature film written, directed, and starring animator Mike Jittlov, as well as a 1979 16 mm short film, also by Jittlov.

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter BurtonTim Burton's middle name is cited as Walter by the Museum of Modern Art on its and covering Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker, though it is cited as William by other sources, such as the (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tobor the Great

Tobor the Great (a.k.a. Tobor) is a 1954 American black-and-white science fiction film from Republic Pictures, produced by Richard Goldstone, directed by Lee Sholem, that stars Charles Drake, Karin Booth, and Billy Chapin.

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Transylvania Twist

Transylvania Twist is a 1989 comedy film that parodies horror movies.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,220 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains.

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Vampirella

Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 (September 1969).

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Vice Versa (magazine)

Vice Versa (1947–1948), subtitled "America's Gayest Magazine", is the earliest known U.S. periodical published especially for lesbians.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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William Winckler

William Winckler (born October 3, 1964 in California) is an American actor and independent filmmaker best known for writing, producing and directing cult movies, horror films and English dubbed anime.

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Word play

Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

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World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year.

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Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention.

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1st World Science Fiction Convention

The First World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) was held in the Caravan Hall in New York from July 2 to July 4, 1939, in conjunction with the New York World's Fair, which was themed as "The World of Tomorrow".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_J_Ackerman

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