John Clute

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    November 2016
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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    This huge volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the fantasy field. Not only does it describe the genre authoritatively, but it redefines it, offering an exciting new analysis of this highly diverse and hugely popular sphere of art. With m...

  • Interzone

  • Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia

    Featuring more than a thousand illustrations in full color, a decade-by-decade timeline includes fascinating facts about science fiction films, television series, magazines, and novels, making it the most thorough visual reference book on science fic...

  • Appleseed

    No one knows more about science fiction than John Clute. He has proven that over and over as a prize-winning critic upholding the highest literary standards for the genre and as coeditor of (and major contributor to) The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and T...

  • The Shape of Things to Come

    When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into th...

  • Canary Fever

    Canary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The ti...

  • Look at the Evidence

    For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Look at the Evidence is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly...

  • Pardon This Intrusion

    Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the...

  • Scores

    For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. As Scores demonstrates, his devotion to the task of understanding the central literatures of our era has not slackened. There are jokes in Scores, and curses, and tirad...



  • Stay

    Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour.Also included is a complet...

  • Strokes

    For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Strokes is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the ...

  • The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Clute has published 12 books.

John Clute does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Stay, was published in November 2016.

The first book by John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, was published in January 1977.

No. John Clute does not write books in series.
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