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Janet Abbate

Copyright Janet Abbate 2007
Douglas Adams

Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Norman Angell, Sir

Bain Collection at the Library of Congress
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Michael Arlen

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

©Rowena
Alan Atkinson

University of New England
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Antony Beevor

Christopher Bellamy

David Graerra-Baker
Edward Bellamy

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

Gregory Benford

Patrick Bishop

Ian Jones
Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht


David Brin

By R. Feist
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Charles N. Brown

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Stephen Budiansky

James Burke

Julius Caesar

public domain
Ramsey Campbell

Nicholas Campion

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton

Brigadier-General L E O Charlton CB CMG DSO RAF. Published 27 February 1919. Wikimedia Commons.
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill, Sir

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Carl Von Clausewitz

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Loren Coleman

Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Peter Connolly

Christodouloug534
John Cornwell

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Mike Davis

Richard Dawkins

L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jared Diamond

Philip K. Dick

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

NASA Photo
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Charles Montagu Doughty

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
George Dyson

Photo © Esther Dyson

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Arthur Stanley Eddington, Sir

the Elder Pliny

David Faber

Wikipedia
Niall Ferguson

Orlando Figes

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Timothy Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Fontenelle

Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
James George Frazer

Lawrence Freedman

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice Principal (Research), King's College, London
Frank Furedi

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Francis Galton

From "The Life, Letters, and Labors of Francis Galton" by Karl Pearson.
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
David M. Glantz

carl.army.mil
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
A.C. Grayling

Colin Greenland

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Ursula Le Guin

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Richard P. Hallion

Dr. Richard P. Hallion as Senior Adviser for Air and Space Issues, Directorate for Security, Counterintelligence and Special Programs Oversight, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. (Retired, 2006)
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Sir Arthur Harris

Stannus, RAF (1944)
M.John Harrison

Danie Ware
Robert Harris

David Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Friedrich Heer

Robert A. Heinlein

Peter Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
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.
Eric Hobsbawm

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Samuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Samuel Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Peter James

Richard Jeffries

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Barry Jones

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
C. G. Jung

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Paul M. Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak

Ian Kershaw

Stephen King-Hall

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

Rocky Kolb

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Fritz Leiber

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

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Michael Light

Sven Lindqvist

Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
Bjorn Lomborg

Emil Jupin
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Ramon Llull

Statue of Ramon Llull, Univeristy of Barcelona. Photo by user Dr. Manuel / German Wikipedia.
Charles Mackay

Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Richard Matheson

Daphne Du Maurier

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
John McCarthy

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
Colleen McCullough

John J. Mearshimer

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
John Michell

John Michell
China Mieville

William Mitchell

Brig. Gen. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell (1879–1936)
af.milAlistair Moffat

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moorehead

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

David Scanlan
Ward Moore

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

Jan Morris

Harold George Nicolson, Sir, K.C.V.O.

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

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Edward Phillips Oppenheim

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

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


Richard Overy

Ambroise Pare

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Ian Patterson

Petronius Arbiter

Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Ian R. Plimer

Picture by 'Barrier Daily Truth', Broken Hill (www.bdtruth.com.au)
Plutarch

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Roy Porter

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jeffrey Record

Professor Jeffrey Record, Department of Strategy and International Security, Air War College, Montgomery, Alabama.
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
John J. Robinson

http://www.msana.com/jrobinson.asp
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
N.A.M. Rodger

Susan Rodger
Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)
Carl Sagan

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Steven Shapin

Ragesoss
Bob Shaw

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

Seth Shostak

Nevil Shute

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

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Cordwainer Smith

George Smoot

Photo by Wikipedia User SCZenz
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Olaf Stapledon

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

taleswapper
George R. Stewart

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Stross

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Frederick Taylor

Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood

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

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-04851)
E. P. Thompson


J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)

Vernor Vinge

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

Larry Wall

Geoffrey Wawro

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Loren Bonser
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
James Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienClaude Grahame White

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Anne Whitehead

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kate Wilhelm

P. G. Wodehouse

Christian Wolmar

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Robert Zubrin

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