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    Out of This World Convention
    Out of This World Convention
    Out of This World Convention
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    Out of This World Convention

    By Forrest J. Ackerman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Out of This World Convention - Forrest J. Ackerman

      Project Gutenberg's Out of This World Convention, by Forrest James Ackerman

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Out of This World Convention

      Author: Forrest James Ackerman

      Release Date: April 7, 2009 [EBook #28535]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUT OF THIS WORLD CONVENTION ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Forrest J. Ackerman, prominent Los Angeles agent and Science Fiction enthusiast, reports on the recent World Convention in New York. Mr. Ackerman, who attended the first World Convention seventeen years ago, has been prominent in SF circles since the early thirties.

      out

      of

      this

      world

      convention

      by FORREST J. ACKERMAN

      An eye-witness account of the 14th World Science Fiction Convention in session.

      I was a spy for the FBI—the Fantasy Bureau of Investigation! Learning of a monster meeting of science fiction fen in New

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