He made paradoxic human music of despair.

She’s the perfect package.

There is a buoyancy to Ai that lends his work weight.

His minimalist compo­sitions are haunted by his counter­tenor voice

He wrote superman novels, and criticized humankind’s mediocrity.

She strolled in the no man’s land between seeing too much and innocence.

Backwards, in high heels, and brilliant

A critic indifferent to current pressures and public opinion

He set a record that will not be broken until man finds water amongst the stars.

Her books abrade the British literary canon.

Forget Phantom of the Opera — check out his cyborg novel!

Heroically engaged with his own alienation.

She found her most popular book untruthful.

The electric charisma of the People’s Champion…

He wrote an inadvertent manifesto for idlers.

The whore to Annie Oakley’s virgin in American myth.

He invented a funny avatar of passive resistance.

Sometimes it pays a man to keep his eyes closed.

He bridged the gap between two eras of science fiction.

He presaged barbarity by pointing out abuses to the German language.

His cartoons ring a very specific important curdled cultural alarm bell.

How to act right and focus in the face of meaning­lessness.

Spare, coiled works of un­settling philosoph­ical rigor

Model, artist, photo­graph­er, surrealist, war correspon­dent.