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Charter group number four, in Los Angeles, had an active member in Forrest J. Ackerman, who missed the first few meetings (he was living in San Francisco with his parents), but whose enthusiasm and imagination provided a focus for the group. "Forry" and a cadre of other members kept it alive as the science fiction and fantasy genres developed.
Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story "The Coldest Place". In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury , which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun (it was found to rotate in a 2:3 resonance after Niven ...
Sci-Fest LA (The Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival) is an annual festival featuring one-act plays in the science fiction genre, held in Los Angeles. It was co-founded by veteran Los Angeles theatre producers Michael Blaha and Lee Costello and actor David Dean Bottrell (“Boston Legal”), and was first held at the ACME Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles on May 6, 2014.
Westercon (occasionally WesterCon; long version West Coast Science Fantasy Conference) is a regional science fiction and fantasy convention founded in September 1948 by Walter J. Daugherty of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. [1] [2] The original full name was West Coast Scienti-Fantasy Conference. [3]
Futuria Fantasia was an American science fiction fanzine created by Ray Bradbury in 1938, when he was 18 years old. Though only four issues of the fanzine were published, its list of contributors included Hannes Bok , Forrest J. Ackerman , Henry Kuttner , Damon Knight , and Robert A. Heinlein .
A review for Los Angeles Review of Books called the novel "daring" and "thoughtful", stating that novels such as Translation State are performing "vital cultural work". [3] A review for Paste Magazine called Leckie a "luminary of modern SFF", praising the novel's exploration of deep questions and its simultaneously relatable characters. [4]
Wellness program participant Jerry Bardo at the opening of the Ron Beasley Wellness Center in L.A.'s skid row on Friday. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation is a leading collection of science fiction.It was founded in Toronto in 1970 by Judith Merril.This public library collection contains over 63,000 items, including books, magazines, audiovisual works, original manuscripts, and other items of interest to both casual users and academic researchers.