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Born in Los Angeles in 1916, Ackerman traced the birth of his vocation to 1926, when he read his first "scientifiction" tale in an early issue of Amazing Stories, the pioneering magazine published by Hugo Gernsback, for whom the Hugo Awards are named. (Ackerman won a 1953 Hugo as No...
In the '80s and '90s, his "Acker-mansion," on Glendower Road in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of L.A., became a museum and a shrine - Mecca for fan-fans. Show up on a Saturday morning, walk past the Lincoln Continental in the driveway (license plate: SCI FI) and find smiling Forry...
The inner ring appears identical in composition and mass to the asteroid belt in our solar system located between Mars and Jupiter, and the outer one is 20 astronomical units from Epsilon Eridani—about the distance from Uranus to the Sun. The outer ring of icy mini-planets...
The day after Obama's election, poverty among black Americans was still twice the national average. In some ways, change has come slowly, if at all. But in another sense, it came sooner than we--and King--imagined. Admit it: not so long ago, you pictured this day against a...
Other issues require attention too. In outer space, we must continue to fund cost-effective robot missions but also plan manned flights to the moon and Mars that will inspire the world. We need to solve water management issues in the rapidly drying American Southwest and pass those good strategies...