Most Popular Books by John Clute

Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika - an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy - and the world we live in now. Of these pieces, "Next", a contemporary response to 9/11, has not been revised; everything else in Part One has been reworked, sometimes extensively. Parts Two, Three and Four include essays and author studies and introductions to particular works; as they are mostly recent, Clute has felt free to rework them where necessary. The few early pieces - including "Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS", a response to the Scientology scandal at the Brighton WorldCon in 1987 - are unchanged.

For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Look at the Evidence is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1987 and 1992.

For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Strokes is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1966 and 1986.

For more than 50 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.

The Nebula Award-wining novel from Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting, dying world in his own evil image—and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying and astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence. This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour. Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden.

Canary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The title refers to the canary in the coal mine, who whiffs gas and dies to save miners; reviewers of fantastika can find themselves in a similar position, though words can only hurt us.

An encyclopedia of science fiction magazines, authors, classic titles, graphic works, genre films and television programs, and the effect history has played in relation to this genre.

Gregory Smythe, powerful ship-owning tycoon, manipulates and represses his children, who are the results of various adulterous liaisons, hating them obsessively in his insane need to remain young. It is mainly through the bizarre fantasies of Jocelyn, a daughter, that the plot is revealed in an atmosphere of incest and androgyny and foreboding. Her frantic attempts to maintain a fragile sense of reality (and to retain the affection of her father) directly lead to at least three pointless deaths. And it is under darkening clouds of mania and dissolution that all the players interact and come together in Aspen, Colorado, to perform and witness the final scenes of the "disinheriting party."

Using the TV show Millennium to focus on the larger millennial cultural drama through which we are living, this text combines selections from the literature and art of the apocalypse with a narrative musing upon the paradox that is the millennium.

The Klavier Station has been silently ambling through the empty sectors of the galaxy for longer than anyone can remember. If it hides a mystery, it is well concealed. Nathaniel Freer, a trader en route with a cargo of dedicated nano-robots, knows that he has been manoeuvred into stopping for repairs on Klavier having survived what was made to look like a botched attempt at piracy. And once there, he gradually begins to understand why. For his cargo is destined for a recently colonized planet whose only export promises to revolutionise data-processing. That export has a remarkable, ancient connection, with Klavier. And if it''s reawakened, the universe will become a very different place. Fast-paced hard SF at its best, APPLESEED is a fireworks display of storytelling. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Opulentes, reich ausgestattetes Werk, das einen umfassenden Einblick in das Science-fiction-Genre vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute bietet. Die Schilderung utopischer Visionen und der historische Kontext (Themen und Zeittafeln) stehen am Anfang, die Literatur (Magazine, wichtige Autoren und ihre Werke, klassische Titel, graphische Werke) bilden den Hauptteil, am Schluß stehen Kino und Fernsehen. Für ein übersichtliches Konzept und kenntnisreiche, sehr informative Texte bzw. Bildlegenden sorgte der renommierte englische Journalist Clute (immerhin seit über 30 Jahren mit SF beschäftigt), für die Qualität der zahlreichen aussagekräftigen Illustrationen bürgt der Name Dorling Kindersley. Auch wenn die deutsche SF-Szene kaum zu existieren scheint (dafür gibt es das wesentlich trockenere ''Lexikon der Science-fiction-Literatur'', zuletzt BA 7/88), kann dieses in jeder Hinsicht anschauliche, auch exzellent aufgemachte Werk (das seinen Preis wert ist) für alle empfohlen werden. (1).