By: Amanda French

A poetess with a talent for assured incongruity.

By: Joshua Glenn

One of the first real scientists to write science fiction. FWIW.

By: Mark Kingwell

He was haunted by his memories of destroying a Benedictine monastery.

By: Joshua Glenn

His Radium Age sf and fantasy influenced Lovecraft and Gygax.

By: Adam McGovern

The camera never smiled at her, and she’s not looking at you.

By: Tucker Cummings

It’s pretty hard to call a harp player a sell-out.

By: Jerrold Freitag

“I became a humorist out of rage, not kindness.”

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Everything was a reagent for her compositions.

By: David Smay

He never ceased his restless formal innovations.

By: Alix Lambert

Visionary inventor infamous for her on-screen nudity.

By: David Smay

She radiated menace, steel and megawatt charisma.

By: Tucker Cummings

His poetry still seems experimental and forward-thinking today.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

“An indescribable gamut of colors!” said the first cosmonaut.