John Clute
Novelist, Author
1940 –
Who is John Clute?
John Frederick Clute is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history" and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known."
He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine Interzone in 1982.
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 and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, as well as writing The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, all of which won Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction. He earned the Pilgrim Award, bestowed by the Science Fiction Research Association for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship, in 1994.
Clute is also 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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- Born
- Sep 12, 1940
Toronto - Also known as
- John Frederick Clute
- Spouses
- Judith Clute
(1964 - )
- Judith Clute
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
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on July 23, 2013
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