Dowling has also been called "Australia's finest writer of horror" by "Locus" magazine, and "Australia's premier writer of dark fantasy" by "All Hallows" (February 2004). The late leading Australian SF personality Peter McNamara (on his "SF Review" radio show on Adelaide's 5EBI-FM, 23 June 2000) called him "Australia's premier fantasist."For the US edition of "Rynosseros" (1993), multi-award-winning US Grand Master Harlan Ellison said of Terry: “Here is Jack Vance, Cordwainer Smith, and Tiptree/Sheldon come again, reborn in one wonderful talent. If you lament the chicanery and boredom of so much of today's shopworn sf, then like those of us who've been reading his award-winning stories for a few years now, you'll purr and growl with delight at your great discovery of the remarkable, brilliant Terry Dowling. He comes from Downunder, and he knows how to stand you on your head with story.”