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Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Brian W Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Roger MacBride Allen

U.S. Department of State
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
A. Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
G. Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
David Bodanis

Ancius Boethius

Isaac Bonewits

Edward De Bono

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

E. R. Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 24, 1962 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-117467)
J. H. Brennan

Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Damien Broderick

Barbara Lamar
Terry Brooks

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Raymond Buckland

Robert Burns

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michael Caine

Richard Bitting, July 30, 2007
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Fritjof Capra

Eric Carle

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Paddy Chayefsky

World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1958 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121944)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Babette Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
J Conrad

from Wikipedia
William Crookes

The Master Therion (Aleister Crowley)

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Nicholas Culpepper

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
E Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Peter David

L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Keith R.A. DeCandido

http://www.startrekdb.se/litteratur/litteratur.php?forfattare=28
Samuel R Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester del Rey

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
J.M. Dillard

Ernest Dimnet

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-36336)
(cropped)
Thomas M Disch

Ariel Hameon
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Emile Durkheim

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Mary Baker G. Eddy

Photographic print copyrighted 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-53514)
Einhard

from Wikipedia
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Phillip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Francis Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
James George Frazer

Egon Friedell

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Hugo Gernsback

Radio News Nov 1928 Cover.jpg
Hugo Gernsback in his Manhattan apartment is watching a television broadcast from his WRNY station in August 1928.
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

William Golding

Amit Goswami

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Alan Grant

User:Vizjim
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Brian Greene

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJoe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Geraldine Pinch

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
S.W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Tracy Hickman

Jaqen
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
John Jakes

William James

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Paul Jennings

W. Stanley Jevons

Robert Jordan

C.G. Jung

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Victor Koman

David Harmon
Jerzy N. Kosinski

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Timothy Leary

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
Harper. Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
James Legge

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Eliphas Levi

Wikipedia
Steven Levy

C. S. Lewis

George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Lord Macaulay

Niccolo Machiavelli

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Frederick Mayer

Wikipedia
Anne Mccaffrey

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Judith Merril

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
Jules Michelet

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
A. B. Mitford

Samuel Lawrence
Richard D. Mohr

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
C. L. Moore

John Burlinson
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Ed Naha

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Andrew Newberg

Photograph by Norman Levinson
Inazo Nitobe

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06329)
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Nicholas Ostler

Lou Paget

William Paley

James Patterson

M.Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Jan Pienkowski

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
David Pogue

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
A. C. Bhaktivedanta

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
OUP

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
J.K. Rowling

Douglas Rushkoff

KLRU's Engaging Speaker Series, April 2007, photo by Bruce Turner
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
J. Neil Schulman

W. Shakespeare

Wikipedia
G. B. Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Stephen Skinner

Stephen Skinner
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles

Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Olaf Stapledon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Mark Steyn

Photo by Tania Gail / Flickr.
David Suzuki

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James D. Tabor

Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Andrew S. Tanebaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
J.R.R. Tolkien

Peter Tremayne

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Bjo Trimble

Bjo Trimble at home, November 1981, photo by Alan Light
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

A.E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Kurt Vonnegut Jnr.

Arthur Edward Waite

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJoss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
O. Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Mike Wilks

Supplied by subject
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edmund Wilson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Winter

William Winter (1836-1917) Drama Critic & Author
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Tobias Wolff

Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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