Official Web Page of
John Clute
email - clute@midcoast.com

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy(with co-editor John Grant)

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction(with co-editor Peter Nicholls)

Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia

Canadian expatriate John Clute was born in Toronto in 1940, married Judith Clute in 1964, and moved to London in 1968. Novelist, writer, poet, editor, and foremost critic and reviewer, there is not much in SF that John hasn't been involved in. He has won 3 Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction Work for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with co-editor Peter Nicholls) in 1994, Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia in 1996 and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with co editor John Grant) in 1998. He also won a World Fantasy Award in1998 for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. John writes a monthly column called Excessive Candour for the online magazine Science Fiction Weekly. He is a trustee of both the Telluride Institute in Colorado and The Science Fiction Foundation in England. His numerous critical works and novel reviews are listed in a detailed bibliography of his works. His novel, Appleseed, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. His latest work is SCORES: Reviews 1993-2003.

John Clute
Photo by Paul Brazier

"...SF accustoms us to looking; it does not, in the end, tell us what we are going to have to see. SF is the window, not the view." John Clute

Interesting Links

Biography

Detailed Bibliography (Compiled by John Clute)

ISFDb bibliography

Excessive Candour Column at SF Weekly

Scores Column at Infinite Matrix

Judith Clute's Official Website

Steampunk Links

Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists (detail page)

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (update page)

Encyclopedia of Fantasy (update page)

Sunburst bio

Yore is Us (Infinite Matrix article on Jack Williamson)

The Science Fiction Foundation

2001 Conference (John is a Guest of Honour)

Some of Johns Reviews of Canadian Authors

Interviews & Reviews

Streaming Audio interview (Scifi Dimensions)
Appleseed Review (SF Site)
Appleseed Review (Infinity Plus)
Losing our Amnesia (David Mathew - Infinity Plus)
SF Site Interview
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Susan Stepney)
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Susan Stepney)
Science Fiction: the Illustrated Encyclopedia (Susan Stepney)
John Clute Answers Your Questions (SFW interview)
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Steven Silver)
SF Revu Interview (Ernest Lilley)

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PUBLICATION DATE 18 SEP 2003

SCORES: Reviews 1993-2003 - by John Clute

The third book of John Clute's collected reviews and essays. It follows on from Strokes (Serconia Press; 1988) which included pieces from 1966 to 1986 and Look at the Evidence (Serconia Press; 1996) which covered the years 1987 to 1993. It contains 125 pieces assembling work from various sources, but mostly from Interzone, Science Fiction Weekly and New York Review of Science Fiction. Where it has seemed possible to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews have been revised, sometimes extensively.

SOFTCOVER (500 copies available)
400+ pages, large fmt perfect bound. ISBN 1-870824-48-2 Price in UK is £14.00, plus £1.00 towards postage & packing
US$27 - CAN$33 (plus P&H)

HARDCOVER (fifty signed and numbered copies available)
400+ pages, with Dustjacket. ISBN 1-870824-47-4 Price in UK is £35.00, plus £3.00 towards postage & packing.
US$60 - CAN$75 (plus P&H)

In North America "Scores" will be distributed by - Michael J Walsh of Old Earth Books via pbs@pathwaybook.com

Orders can be also be placed direct with Roger Robinson of Beccon Publications in the U.K. through beccon@dial.pipex.com or by mail at

Roger Robinson
Beccon Publications
75 Rosslyn Avenue
Harold Wood
Essex RM3 0RG
United Kingdom