The Greatest Worldbuilder of the 20th Century Just Died. You’ve Probably Never Heard of Him.
John Crowley just died, and you probably don’t know his name. He wrote *Little, Big*, a book Harold Bloom put in the Western Canon, yet he remained a niche sci-fi author. The real tragedy isn’t his death—it’s how the literary establishment’s elitism hid the architect of modern worldbuilding from the very audiences who would revere him today.