1. John Clute is a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, as well as the author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, all of which won Hugo Awards for Best Related Work.
18 Facts About John Clute
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John Clute earned the Pilgrim Award, bestowed by the Science Fiction Research Association for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship, in 1994.
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John Clute is author of the collections of reviews and essays Strokes; Look at the Evidence: Essays and Reviews; Scores; Canary Fever; and Pardon This Intrusion.
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In 2006, John Clute published the essay collection The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror.
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The Encyclopedias statistics page reported that, as of 24 March 2017, John Clute had authored the great majority of articles: 6,421 solo and 1,219 in collaboration, totalling over 2,408,000 words.
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John Clute was a Guest of Honour at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, from 14 to 18 August 2014.
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John Clute earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at New York University in 1962 while living with writer and artist Pamela Zoline.
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John Clute has been the partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996.
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John Clute's first professional publication was a long science-fictional poem entitled "Carcajou Lament", which appeared in TriQuarterly in 1959.
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John Clute's first short story was "A Man Must Die", which appeared in New Worlds in 1966.
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In 1977, John Clute published his first novel, The Disinheriting Party.
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John Clute has proposed it as the first novel in a trilogy.
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John Clute has issued a polemic he calls the "Protocol of Excessive Candour", which argues that reviewers of science fiction and fantasy must not pull punches because of friendship:.
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John Clute is the master of periphrasis and the circling, reiterated metaphor, employing pyrotechnic diction to summon insights that are at once calculated and spontaneous.
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John Clute knew that SF was not only worthy of real criticism, but that it needed it.
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Van Vogt and Gordon Dickson, wrote about protagonists afflicted with the burden of guiding humanity up the evolutionary ladder, and it might be said that John Clute has undertaken a similar responsibility for SF's understanding of itself.
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John Clute's continuing capacity to oversee the field every year, his willingness to at least check out the dross as well as engage the golden few.
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John Clute had gained a reputation as a critic before his second novel appeared, and some reviewers admitted that they found it "difficult" to read; others found it "intimidating" to review, as though trying carried the jeopardy of being found failing.