我说的自然不是那些脑子里头经常有几根筋搭不牢的粉丝，而是Forrest Ackerman。是他最早于 1945 年开始使用词语 sci-fi （Science Fiction）。

Over a long career he acted as literary agent for Isaac Asimov, A.E. van Vogt, Hugo Gernsback, and L. Ron Hubbard; he published Ray Bradbury’s first short story in a fan magazine in 1938. Ackerman wrote over 2,000 articles and short stories, including, oddly enough, lesbian fiction in the 1940s. In recent years mounting health bills forced him to sell his home, the ‘Ackermansion,’ and most of the 300,000 items of memorabilia it stored.

记得 The Simpsons 电影版里头有个家伙在小镇迎来世界末日之前（被罩住了）感慨：我一辈子都在搜集漫画看漫画研究漫画和别人交流漫画，如今大限将至，我只想说：“这辈子过得真值阿！”。