John Frederick Clute (1940- ) is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history. "[1]
Clute's articles on speculative fiction have appeared in various publications since the 1970s. Speculative fiction is a term used as an inclusive descriptor covering a group of Fiction Genres that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real world in This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. He is a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with Peter Nicholls) and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with John Grant), as well as The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, all of which won Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is a Reference work on Science fiction. Peter Nicholls (1939-) is an Australian literary scholar and critic The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 Reference work on Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant. John Grant (born 1949 is a Scottish writer and editor of Science fiction, Fantasy, and non-fiction The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best Science fiction or Fantasy works and achievements of the previous year Clute is also author of the critical essay collections Strokes, Look at the Evidence, and Scores. His 1999 novel Appleseed, a space opera, was noted for its "combination of ideational fecundity and combustible language"[2] and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. Space opera is a subgenre of Speculative fiction or Science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often Melodramatic adventure set mainly or entirely [3] In 2006, Clute published the essay collection The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror.
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Bibliography
Criticism
- Strokes [1966-1986] (Serconia Press, 1988), ISBN 0-934933-03-0
- Look at the Evidence [1987-1993] (Liverpool University Press, 1995), ISBN 0-85323-820-0
- Scores [1993-2003] (Beccon Publications, 2003), ISBN 1-870824-47-4
- The Darkening Garden (Payseur & Schmidt, 2006), ISBN 0-9789114-0-7
Fiction
- The Disinheriting Party (Allison and Busby, 1977), ISBN 0-85031-134-9
- Appleseed (Orbit, 1999), ISBN 1-85723-758-7
References
- ^ Matthew Davis, John Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean, Strange Horizons, 18 September 2006.
- ^ Review of Appleseed in Science Fiction Weekly
- ^ New York Times Notable Book List, 2002
External links
- Official John Clute website.
- The Made in Canada Website has a page on John Clute.
- John Clute at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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