中午吃飯回來的車上，新聞播報，科幻大師，“華氏451度”，“火星紀事(Martian Chronicles_"的作者，Ray Douglas Bradbury(雷·道格拉斯·布莱伯利)去世，享年九十一歲。

"Author of more than 27 novels and story collections and more than 600 short stories, Bradbury has frequently been credited with elevating the often maligned reputation of science fiction. Some say he singlehandedly helped to move the genre into the realm of literature."

“I'm not a science fiction writer,” he was frequently quoted as saying. “I've written only one book of science fiction [“Fahrenheit 451”]. All the others are fantasy. Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.”

這話可以給昌海不久前提出，對軟硬科幻的注解。

[All quotes are from Chicago Tribune reports, 6/6/12]

虽不曾有机会读他的著作，还是要哀悼一下...