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Lynn Abbey

Taken in 1989.
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
(Franklin) Robert Adams

With permission of Mundania Press. http://www.mundania.com
Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong (1969).
Kingsley Amis

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

Michael P. Sauers
Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Edward Bellamy

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

Photo of Clare Bell by husband Chuck Piper,2006
Gregory Benford

John Gregory Betancourt

Jgbetancourt
Lloyd J. Biggle

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

David Brin

By R. Feist
Terry Brooks

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Caleb Carr

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Greg Costikyan

Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
David Cross

Luigi Novi
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)
John Dalmas

Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Erich von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Peter David

Avram Davidson

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester Del Rey

August Derleth

Graham Diamond

Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Dickson Gordon R

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
William C. Dietz

J.m. Dillard

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen R. Donaldson

David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Dave Duncan

www.daveduncan.com
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Phyllis Eisenstein

Harlan Ellison

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

Photo by Andy Edgar
Philip Jose Farmer

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

Georges Seguin
William R. Forstchen

Kate Forsyth

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop.
Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Herbert W. Franke

Credit: Andreas Hübner
Pat Frank

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

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

Permission of VJF.
C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Esther Friesner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Neil Gaiman

Daniel V. Gallery

USS Guadalcanal Task Force 22.3 Association (candotg.org) (via Wikipedia)
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
David Gemmell

William Gibson

Christopher Golden

William Goldman

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

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Jack C. Haldeman, II

At Necronomicon '90.
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Laurell K. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Thomas Harlan

http://www.throneworld.com/
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Robin Hobb

Lee Hoffman

Lee Hoffman, 1988.
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert E. Howard

Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Richard Hoyt

L Ron Hubbard

Tanya Huff

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eric Idle

Photo by Tom E. Canavan
Brian Jacques

John Jakes

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksK. W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
Judith Jones

Christopher Hirsheimer
Terry Jones

Robert Jordan

L. E. Modesitt Jr.

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Franz Kafka

James P. Kelly

John Kessel

Donald Kingsbury

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Richard A. Knaak

Courtesy of Richard A. Knaak
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dean Koontz

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Michael Kurland

Photo by Burser
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Tim LaHaye

Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueDavid Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Comte de Lautreamont

Stephen R. Lawhead

Gentry Lee

Image credit: NASA/JPL
(nasa.gov)
Fritz Leiber

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

William Wesen
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Paul Levinson

photo by Emon Hassan
C. S. Lewis

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Jean Lorrah

no credit given
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucretius

Robert Ludlum

Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Eric Van Lustbader

Niccolo Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Ngaio Marsh

George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Richard Matheson

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Anne Mccaffrey

Gregory McDonald

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Maureen F. McHugh

Dennis Mckiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
Patricia A. Mckillip

Adrianna Dane
Sean Mcmullen

James A. Michener

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

Mark Kidd Studios
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Larry Niven

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

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Alexei, Panshin

Alexei Panshin
Sara Paretsky

James Patterson

Ridley Pearson

H. Beam Piper

Photo from Murder in the Gunroom (1953) dust jacket
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Jerry Pournelle

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

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

kitreed.net
Robert Reed

Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
Mike Resnick

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
John Ringo

Used by permission of John Ringo.
Tom Robbins

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
J. K. Rowling

Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Fred Saberhagen

Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

R. A. Salvatore

John Saul

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Stanley Schmidt

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Robert J. Serling

Robert J. Serling
William Shatner

Bob Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
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
Dan Simmons

B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Cordwainer Smith

Smith L. Neil

Courtesy of L. Neil Smith.
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Michael Marshall Smith

Image copyright © Steve Double, 2006
Somtow Sucharitkul

S.P. Somtow
Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Mickey Spillane

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stephen G. Spruill

photo by Nancy Spruill
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
William Olaf Stapledon

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
S.M. Stirling

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Henry Sutton

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
George Takei

Photo credit: Diane Krauss, Aug. 17, 1996
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Diann Thornley

lackland.af.mil
James Tiptree

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
Margaret Truman

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
George turner

Norstrilia Press
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

John Varley

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
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

Mika Waltari

Evangeline Walton

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
Joseph Wambaugh

Lawrence Watt-Evans

by Julie Evans, copyright 2006, all rights
reserved, used by permission.
David Weber

Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
Herbert George Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
James White

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
1969 Eastercon (British National Science Fiction Convention),
Oxford, England.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Billy Dee Williams

Flickr user pacs_shots
Jack Williamson

Tad Williams

Walter Jon Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
F. Paul Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Flickr user dbuk2
Tom Wolfe

Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
Philip Wylie

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118224
Chelsea Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
Jane Yolen

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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