Neil Barron  

"I spot-checked the entries for relative completeness within the self-imposed limits. Of the 36 illustrators who have been nominated for or won a Hugo, as listed in the chapter on SF illustration in my Anatomy of Wonder (1987), two were omitted: Vaughan Bode (cited twice in the index) and Vai Lackey Lindahn. British illustrator Rodney Mathews, who illustrated many Moorcock works and several calendars, is absent. The best known illustrator for Burroughs, J. Allen St. John, is praised in the overview but doesn’t get an entry. Neither does the contemporary British illustrator, Brian Froud, who had a Peacock Press/Bantam collection of his work in 1977. If Gahan Wilson is included, why not Edward Gorey?" --A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists by Robert Weinberg. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988. $49.95, reviewed by Nell Barron [1]