John Clute
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Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith
Clute
Edited by Farah Mendlesohn; Cover by Judith Clute
"Polder is a book by friends and about friends, but
can be read and deserves to be read by a great many more
people than that. It is worth reading for the humour and
warmth of its anecdotes; for the high quality of much of
its fiction; and for the insights provided by its essays.
It does what a festschrift should do: explain why its subjects
matter, and make us value them. And it packs a great deal
into its relatively few pages—I haven't discussed,
for example, the fiction by M. John Harrison (from Climbers),
Kim Stanley Robinson ("A History of the Twentieth Century,
With Illustrations") and Scott Bradfield ("The
Anti-Santa," complete with illustrations by six-year-old
Jack Bradfield), or the poems by Tom Disch ("Song of
the Rooftops," a reprint) and William Gibson ("Cold
War Water," an original composition), or, or, or."
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| Polder is a collection of essays,
stories, and poems in honor of John and Judith Clute, and their home in
Camdentown, London. A review
of Polder by Niall Harrison, senior reviews editor at Strange
Horizons.
Contributions by:
Brian Aldiss
Scott Bradfield
Damien Broderick
Andrew M. Butler
Ellen Datlow
Tom Disch
Candas Jane Dorsey
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson
Joe Haldeman
Elizabeth Hand
M. John Harrison
Edward James
Roz Kaveney
Paul Kincaid
Robert Latham
Javier Martinez
Farah Mendlesohn
Sean McMullen
Kim Stanley Robinson
Geoff Ryman
Graham Sleight
Bruce Sterling
Ian Watson
Gary K. Wolfe
Jack Womack
Pamela Zoline
This edition is limited to 500 copies and has a retail price of $40.00,
plus shipping.
Available from the OEB fulfillment company, Pathway Book
Service
 Softcover
• March 2006 • ISBN 1-882968-32-8 • $40.00 USD
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Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003
by John Clute
published by Beccon Publications
"...SF accustoms us to looking; it does not, in the
end, tell us what we are going to have to see. SF is the
window, not the view."
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– John Clute
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The third book of John Clute's (official
web site) collected reviews and essays. It follows on from Strokes
(Serconia Press; 1988), which included pieces from 1966 to 1986 and Look
at the Evidence (Serconia Press; 1996), which covered the years 1987
to 1993. It contains 125 pieces assembling work from various sources,
but mostly from Interzone, Science Fiction Weekly, and New
York Review of Science Fiction. Where it has seemed possible
to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews
have been revised, sometimes extensively.
Available from the OEB fulfillment company, Pathway
Book Service
Softcover
• September 2003 • ISBN 1-870824-48-2 • $27.00 USD
Hardcover
• OUT OF PRINT • September 2003
• ISBN 1-870824-47-4 • $60.00 USD
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Look at the Evidence
by John Clute
published by Serconia Press; 1996
On Look at the Evidence
"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."
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– Washington Post
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| As a critic and reviewer who had
spent two decades writing in and about the field of science fiction, Clute
was well placed to record the radical changes the genre was experiencing.
These essays and reviews are a seismograph of those changes. |
Available from the OEB fulfillment company, Pathway
Book Service
Hardcover
• ISBN 0-934933-05-7 • $30.00 USD
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