By: Suzanne Fischer

Science fiction inspired her to an incisive, productive anger.

By: William Nericcio

She clawed a fiction out of the very soul of the Americas.

By: Anthony Miller

He mixed total irreverence with profound compassion.

By: Tor Aarestad

Topped with dark humor, his social messages went down easily.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 12 books that inaugurated a great era in kids’ lit.

By: Anthony Miller

He tested limits, courted demons, and thrashed it all out on the page.

By: Devin McKinney

The tubercular cousin in our family of vigorous visionaries.

By: Kio Stark

A shimmer of thievery, deceit, and undependable identities.

By: Mark Kingwell

Big man, big brain, big appetites.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He builds churches of disaster, museums of accidents.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Science is a humanist’s playground.

By: Kio Stark

Profoundly political without any rhetoric.

By: Brian Berger

His obsessions: Christian theology, art, authenticity.

By: Suzanne Fischer

Teleportation, space travel, and the id.

By: Kio Stark

“this is the saddest story I have ever heard”