It may be that Avram Davidson never realized that he was too brilliant in too many ways to be popular : too wickedly satiric, too erudite, too speculative, too well written, too intimately familiar with about fifteen different cultures. . . . He was unclassifiable, and a genius.Guy Davenport |
Perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author. [. . .] It is hard to imagine the genre that could encompass him ; it is even more difficult to imagine fantasy or sf without him. John Clute, in
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE)
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