John Clute

John Clute in London, 26 September 2004, by Cory Doctorow.

John Frederick Clute (born 1940) is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history."

Clute's articles on speculative fiction have appeared in various publications since the 1960s. 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 writing The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, all of which won Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction. Clute is also author of the collections of reviews and essays Strokes, Look at the Evidence, Scores, Canary Fever and Pardon This Intrusion. His 2001 novel Appleseed, a space opera, was noted for its "combination of ideational fecundity and combustible language" and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. In 2006, Clute published the essay collection The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror. The third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with David Langford and Peter Nicholls) was released online as a beta text in October 2011.

Bibliography

Criticism

• Strokes [1966-1986] (Serconia Press, 1988), ISBN 0-934933-03-0
• Look at the Evidence [1987-1993] (Serconia Press, 1996) [title page misdated]
• Scores [1993-2003] (Beccon Publications, 2003), ISBN 1-870824-47-4
• The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror (Payseur & Schmidt, 2006), ISBN 0-9789114-0-7
• Canary Fever (Beccon Publications, 2009), ISBN 9781-870824-56-9
• Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm (Beccon Publications, 2011)

Fiction

• The Disinheriting Party (Allison and Busby, 1977), ISBN 0-85031-134-9
• Appleseed (Orbit, 2001), ISBN 1-85723-758-7

External links

• Official John Clute website.
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, third edition
• John Clute at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database