
Edited by Colin Greenwood, John Clute and David Pringle.
Contents:
- Introduction by John Clute
- O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman
- The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe by Angela Carter
- The Flash! Kid by Scott Bradfield
- After-Images by Malcolm Edwards
- Kitemaster by Keith Roberts
- The Monroe Doctrine by Neil Ferguson
- Angel Baby by Rachel Pollack
- On the Deck of the Flying Bomb by David Redd
- What Cindy Saw by John Shirley
- The Object of the Attack by J. G. Ballard
- Something Coming Through by Cherry Wilder
- Dreamers by Kim Newman
- Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report by Michael Blumlein
Details updated August 23, 2021
John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 1940) is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history."
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 (with Peter Nicholls) and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with John Grant), as well as writing The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, all of which won Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction. Clute is also author of the collections of reviews and essays Strokes, Look at the Evidence, Scores, Canary Fever and Pardon This Intrusion. His 2001 novel Appleseed, a space opera, was noted for its "combination of ideational fecundity and combustible language" and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. In 2006, Clute published the essay collection The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror. The third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with David Langford and Peter Nicholls) was released online as a beta text in October 2011.