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John Clute

John Clute was born in Canada in 1940, and came to England with Judith Clute, living in the same Camden Town flat ever since; since 1997, he has visited America yearly, spending much of his time with Elizabeth Hand in Maine.

He received a Pilgrim Award from the SFRA in 1994, was distinguished guest scholar at the 1999 international conference for the fantastic in the arts, and received an SFWA Solstice Award in 2012. He has won several awards (including Hugo Awards) for individual books. He was associate editor of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (general editor Peter Nicholls), co-edited the second edition with Nicholls, and is co-editing the third edition (beta version online from October 2011) with David Langford (Nicholls remaining editor emeritus). He also co-edited the Encyclopedia of Fantasy with John Grant (Paul Barnett); and wrote solo a companion to SF, Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, plus The Book of End Times: Grappling with the Millennium.

Book reviews and other criticism have been assembled in Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986; in Look at the Evidence: Essays and Reviews; in Scores: Reviews 1993-2003; and in Canary Fever: Reviews. The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, and Pardon this Intrusion: Fantastika In the World Storm, collect more sustained arguments about fantastika, the world, and Uncle Tom Cobbley. Of his two novels, Appleseed is SF.

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