By: Joshua Glenn

His radio-building hobby led him to pioneer pulp sci-fi!

By: Joshua Glenn

He gave us the weird tentacle and the occult detective.

By: Elina Shatkin

She developed a pathological aversion to her native England.

By: Elina Shatkin

An astute proto-ethnologist attired in full Victorian garb.

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

“That saving incertitude which is our supreme consolation.”

By: Peter Bebergal

He creates black-and-white surreal masterpieces.

By: Joshua Glenn

Mechanical men, Martian vampires, and dirigible crashes.

By: Joshua Glenn

He imagined the Internet and other impossibilities.

By: Joshua Glenn

The suffragist who wrote Radium Age science fiction.

By: Elina Shatkin

“A woman whose life’s poetry never sank to prose.”

By: William Nericcio

The monkey grammarian plagued by conjunctions and disjunctions.

By: Joshua Glenn

“The first writer to discover what ‘other planets’ are really good for.”

By: Jerrold Freitag

The ghost in Cash’s machine was Sturm und Drang Romanticism.

By: William Nericcio

The Cuban writer who was the toast of 1960s-70s Paris.

By: Jerrold Freitag

His smiles, tears, and wall-punching are the best.