Let's make this birthday one to remember.

75 years old (Born on April 20, 1950)

Happy Birthday, Steve Erickson! May your day be as surreal and magically realistic as the worlds you've crafted in "Days Between Stations," "Rubicon Beach," and "Tours of the Black Clock." Your novels have twisted our minds into delightful knots, leaving us questioning reality—and occasionally checking under our beds for avantpop plot twists.

Here's to another year filled with literary brilliance, critical acclaim, and essays that make readers scratch their heads while smiling. Keep bending genres until they snap back hilariously confused yet utterly amazed. Cheers to you—may this birthday celebration blur lines between fiction and cake-induced fantasy!