Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer
Location	Los Angeles, CA, United States
Introduction	Speculative-fiction author, genre historian, and thoroughly strange person.
Interests	Fantasy, science fiction, swing dancing, jazz, Tolkien, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Cornell Woolrich, film noir, westerns, books, movies, jazz, film soundtracks, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, Godzilla, kaiju
Favorite movies	Chinatown, King Kong (1933), The Outlaw Josey Wales, Manhattan, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Lord of the Rings, Tron, Duck Soup, Batman Begins, Night and the City, Life of Brian, Airplane!, Groundhog Day, Stagecoach, High Plains Drifter, The Searchers, Mothra vs. Godzilla
Favorite music	Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Count Basie, Django Reinhardt, Bob Wills, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Stompy Jones, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Howard Shore, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Lambert Hendricks & Ross, James Newton Howard
Favorite books	The Lord of the Rings, The Long Goodbye, Dune, In Cold Blood, Strombringer, The Hour of the Dragon, Rendezvous in Black, Watership Down, The Maltese Falcon, The Forge of God, The Age of Reason, The Haunting of Hill House, I Am Legend

Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?

Sculpt it from unobtanium to celebrate my victory over irregular Latin verbs.