Jack Dann has written or edited over eighty books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, The Rebel, The Silent, Bad Medicine, and The Man Who Melted. His work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Mark Twain, and Philip K. Dick. Library Journal called Dann ""...a true poet who can create pictures with a few perfect words,"" and Best Sellers said that ""Jack Dann is a mind-warlock whose magicks will confound, disorient, shock, and delight.""