9. We have ignition sequence start. Engines on 5, 4, 3, 2. All engines running.
We have lift on 49 minutes.
9. We have ignition sequence start.
10. We have ignition sequence start.
I think my greatest accomplishment was that I was the only individual who tried to get it all together.
Complete runs of 200 different science fiction and fantasy magazines. 50,000 books.
10. When Dane, his wife, was alive in those days and she said to him,
I will not put up with a collection above stairs. You can put all the books and magazines and everything you like downstairs and that's fine.
And all your posters and your King Kong statues and your monster mask and your hairs from Lon Chaney's makeup kit, they can all be downstairs.
But do not bring them above stairs in our house. Alright, I'll honor that. I'll keep everything below the stairs.
I'll do what you want, Dane. So he did that. She dies and slowly the collection creeps upstairs.
First it fills the living room with artwork and paintings. Then it creeps up the stairs to their bedroom and monster masks are appearing along the way.
And suddenly a gorilla mask and stuffed gorillas and first additions are in the bathroom.
And slowly the house is taken over by Forrest Collection.
Giving the world the word sci-fi which has been added to the English language in every dictionary and on everybody's lips.
One morning as a teenager I was getting ready to go to school and I was packing up my briefcase.
My mother looked at my briefcase and said, don't take science fiction to school.
The way she said it was like it was some kind of substance like marzipan.
I would have poured into the bottom of my briefcase, don't take science fiction to school.
It didn't even sound like a form of literature.
I guess my first experience of Forie was when I was buying famous monsters of Filman magazine.
There wasn't anything like it on the newsstands.
A magazine that dealt with science fiction and horror and fantasy films.
Then he did the companion magazine Space Man magazine which only lasted a few issues.
But I actually have one of them on my wall because there was a great cover that he did.
He hired Wally Wood to do a cover of this astronaut basically relaxing reading Space Man magazine
with all these beautiful alien women surrounding him.
And I remember even as a ten year old thinking, well now that's the life.
That was sort of something to aspire to.
