By: Alix Lambert

Backwards, in high heels, and brilliant

By: Brian Berger

A critic indifferent to current pressures and public opinion

By: Barbara Bogaev

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

By: David Smay

Her books abrade the British literary canon.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: David Smay

Heroically engaged with his own alienation.

By: Suzanne Fischer

She found her most popular book untruthful.

By: Tucker Cummings

The electric charisma of the People’s Champion…

By: Robert Wringham

He wrote an inadvertent manifesto for idlers.

By: Catherynne M. Valente

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

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He invented a funny avatar of passive resistance.

By: Alix Lambert

Sometimes it pays a man to keep his eyes closed.

By: Joshua Glenn

He bridged the gap between two eras of science fiction.

By: Jerrold Freitag

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

By: Gary Panter

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