By: Jacob Mikanowski

He spurned all avant-gardes but his own.

By: Flourish Klink

You will take the kangaroo seriously.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Mike Fleisch

He aimed for total objectivity and compassion.

By: Tucker Cummings

He courageously shared his sexual predilections with the world.

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: Tucker Cummings

He was dis­illusioned by the materialism of modern Japan.

By: Jerrold Freitag

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

By: Brian Berger

An anthropologist who studied “the muck.”

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Brian Berger

His journalism about white tenant farmers became “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”

By: Tucker Cummings

An uncontrollable fit of the giggles transitioning to bitter tears.

By: Joshua Glenn

Without his fantasy fiction, no Dungeons & Dragons