Cover by Judith Clute
SCORES :
REVIEWS 1993-2003
John Clute
Shortlisted for 2004 Hugo Award
for Best Nonfiction Work
Photo by Roger Robinson
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"John Clute, a critic of almost Jamesian elegance, who over the decades has become the genre's Boswell, records every tick, trend and trope in speculative fiction." Washington Post |
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For nearly 40 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 tirades, and apologies, and riffs; but every word of every review, in the end, is about how we understand the stories we tell about the world.
Following on from his two previous books of collected reviews (Strokes and Look at the Evidence) this book collects reviews from a wide variety of sources, but mostly from Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly. Where it has seemed possible to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews have been revised, sometimes extensively. 125 review articles, over 200 books reviewed in more than 214,000 words. |
| John Clute was born in 1940 in Canada, where he was raised. He lived for several years in the United States, which he visits constantly, but has resided in England since 1969. He's published two novels; three encyclopedias; four volumes of essays, reviews and commentary; and several co-edited anthologies. He's received three Hugo Awards, four Locus Awards, the Pilgrim Award for "distinguished contributions to the study of science fiction", the ICFA Distinguished Guest Scholar Award, and others. |
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233mm x 150mm. Publication date 18 Sept 2005.
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