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	Strange Horizons Articles: John Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean, by Matthew Davis
		Clute stands out, not just because of the depth and breadth of his knowledge, but also for the individuality of his writing; even the most formal sentence plucked from one of his scholastic works is readily identifiable due to his individual judgement and style.
		Clute sidesteps matters of socio-political prediction or technological extrapolation to look at the form and qualities of the genre as a whole, as one of many, not as a "unique" category as many prior SF apologists had defensively proposed.
		Clute's history of SF is predicated on the belief that it tells a Story (oh dear, yes), that the world is transparent to certain techniques of explication and that it is ultimately, if complexly, knowable.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2006/20060918/yakfests-a.shtml (2478 words)

	John Clute Appleseed Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		John Clute's 'Appleseed' sticks out like a sore thumb in the landscape of the average science fiction novel.
		Clute is one of the most respected critics specializing in the science fiction field.
		Clute is wise enough to leaven his rather heady novel with ample doses of humor.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/clute-appleseed.htm (610 words)

	John Clute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Frederick Clute is a Canadian born author and critic who lives in Britain.
		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 The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, all of which won Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction.
		Clute is also author of the critical essay collections Strokes, Look at the Evidence, and Scores.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Clute (142 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With John Clute
		John Clute was born in Toronto in 1940.
		John Clute's work as an author and editor include his first novel, The Disinheriting Party (Allison and Busby, 1977), the 5 volume Interzone: the Anthology series and his key role in putting together The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
		I think of John Clute as a Science Fiction pedagogue, and reading his new novel Appleseed (now available in the UK and Canada, Feb 2002 for the US) was a treat as it introduced me to him as a novelist.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/jc104.htm (2510 words)

	Amazon.de: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: English Books: John Clute,John Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To begin, John Clute and company's The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is an essential book for anyone who is serious about fantasy.
		According to Clute, the book does not claim to be as complete as its predecessor, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the editors were forced to make some cuts.
		Clute is still in negotiations to issue the Encyclopedia on CD-Rom.
	www.amazon.de /Encyclopedia-Fantasy-John-Clute/dp/0312198698 (1974 words)

	Amazon.ca: Appleseed: Books: John Clute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Clute (The Disinheriting Party) has produced a space opera that, though short on characterization, is brimful of both a love of language and the tropes of science fiction.
		Despite Clute's formidable language and background, he didn't lose sight of the fundamentals of SF storytelling -- a crackerjack yarn, larger-than-life heroes, horrible villains, the fate of the universe in the balance...
		John Clute obviously thinks he's James Joyce or at least Anthony Burgess.
	www.amazon.ca /Appleseed-John-Clute/dp/0765303795 (1430 words)

	Amazon.com: Appleseed: Books: John Clute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Clute is a singular SF critic: he writes with verve and style and with a unashamedly vaste vocabulary.
		Secondly, Clute's vast knowledge of SF enables him to play with tropes, concepts and situations in away that is a delight for the afficianado.
		Clute's use of language, with it's endless cavalcade of arcane and nonsensical terminology is beyond annoying.
	www.amazon.com /Appleseed-John-Clute/dp/0765303787 (3032 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: Books: John Clute,Peter Nicholls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the introduction, Clute and Nicholls write, "We see this book as more than merely an encyclopedia of sf; it is a comprehensive history and analysis of the genre."
		Clute and Nicholls have put together an admirable, ever-improving encyclopedia that tries to encompass a genre that grows new pseudopods every year.
		But these entries are also the most problematic of the information presented in this volume, as the opinion of the writer of the piece (almost all of the author entries were done by John Clute) about the quality of each of the author's works clearly shows.
	www.amazon.ca /Encyclopedia-Science-Fiction-John-Clute/dp/0312096186 (2070 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Encyclopaedia of Fantasy: Books: John Clute,John Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Clute and John Grant the authors have produced a fine work.
		John Grant's movie reviews are also worth looking out for; they can be very funny at times!
		Many of these are written by John Clute, and he tends to use quite obscure words which will have you reaching for your dictionary in puzzlement.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Encyclopaedia-Fantasy-John-Clute/dp/1857238931 (755 words)

	John Clute interview - infinity plus non-fiction
		While preparing for an interview with the incomparable John Clute -- a man renowned for the intellectual vigour, some would say thuggery, of the reviews he has published -- I swatted away many ideas of how to begin the piece when it was written.
		For as sure as God made little apples, Clute has given us decade after decade of striking images in his non-fiction; and to his credit, he more or less singlehandedly raised the ante of genre reviewing and of essay-writing on genre-specific notions.
		Because you know that John Clute is an interesting interlocutor, and a good deal funnier than you might expect.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intjclute.htm (2628 words)

	Strange Horizons Reviews: Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute, edited by Farah Mendlesohn, reviewed ...
		Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute
		The Clutes arrived from Canada, to stay, at the tail-end of the '60s, initially sharing flat 221B with Pamela Zoline and Saleem Buckhari; they (and Judith's art, and John's books) later expanded to fill the whole of it.
		The same cannot be said of the contributions focusing on Exhibit B, John Clute, the critic.
	www.strangehorizons.com /reviews/2006/03/polder_a.shtml (3123 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| John Clute on Ian R MacLeod's The Light Ages
		From the photograph that accompanies the story about him in the London Guardian for 14 June 2003, Sir Peter Davis, the "under-fire chief executive" of an unattractive British supermarket chain known as Sainsbury's, is a portly gentleman with very cold eyes and a grin nobody in his right mind would think of as ingratiating.
		It may further suggest that there is nothing new under the kaleidoscope; that, after the kaleidoscope we inhabit is shaken, light simply falls differently on the just and the unjust, as does a rainbow.
		John Clute is the pre-eminent critic of science-fiction and fantasy, co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, and writer of more flinty, terrain-gobbling reviews than the normal mind can encompass.
	www.infinitematrix.net /columns/clute/clute4.html (1224 words)

	Excessive Candour
		In the absence of real magic, in the failure or refusal of John Uskglass to show himself, those who now call themselves magicians are in effect antiquarians.
		A society of these in York is impelled by a new member, John Segundus (who may eventually turn out to be the author of Strange and its sequels), to challenge a magician named Gilbert Norrell to prove his claim that he is in fact capable of real magic.
		It is soon clear that Norrell, a reclusive figure miserly of his vast library of Books of Magic, has exposed himself for a reason: He wishes to reinstate magic in England, but only the decorous rule-bound forms of Book Magic he himself approves of.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue385/excess.html (1693 words)

	John Clute - Official Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Canadian expatriate John Clute was born in Toronto in 1940, married Judith Clute in 1964, and moved to London in 1968.
		Novelist, writer, poet, editor, and foremost critic and reviewer, there is not much in SF that John hasn't been involved in.
		Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia in 1996 and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with co editor John Grant) in 1998.
	www.geocities.com /canadian_SF/clute (393 words)

	John Clute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Clute is one of the foremost critics and reviewers in the science fiction and fantasy field.
		He is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction with Peter Nicholls and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy with John Grant.
		Read John Clute's reviews at SF Weekly or visit his website at www.johnclute.co.uk.
	www.cosmos-books.com /clute.html (86 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Clute City, also known as Clute, is on Clute Lake and the Missouri Pacific Railroad between State highways 332 and 227, southeast of Lake Jackson and ten miles south of Angleton in south central Brazoria County.
		In 1950 Clute had a population of 700 and thirty-six businesses; in 1954 the residents numbered 3,200 and the businesses forty-five.
		Clute was incorporated in May 1952 under the name Clute City, with a commission form of government; in 1955 the town changed its name back to Clute and adopted an aldermanic form of government.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/hfc9.html (440 words)

	John Clute, Appleseed, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Encyclopedia of Fantasy
		John Clute has made his career as one of the foremost critics of science fiction and fantasy.
		Appleseed was published in the UK in April 2001 and hit the States in January 2002.
		We spoke with John Clute in June 2001 at 2001: A Celebration of British Science Fiction, an academic conference held in Liverpool, UK.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Mar02/johnclute.htm (144 words)

	John Clute OmniVisions Interview
		Jim Freund: Tonight our guest is writer/editor/critic/encyclopedist John Clute, whose Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction is (literally) definitive.
		In both the SFE and the FE, either with Peter Nicholls or with John Grant, it was decided that the names signatures would not only edit the book with all that entails, but would also individually write as many entries as possible.
		John Grant edited individual entries intensely and shaped the final book.
	www.hourwolf.com /chats/clute.html (2063 words)

	Knives in the Bell Jar: John Clute's review of The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Ficton & Fantasy
		Clute suggests that the reason for the cutoff was that the bibliographies available to Collins started mid-century.
		It's fine for Clute to say that he would have approached the problem differently (obviously, I might have, too); the point is that Collins' approach was reasonably open to him.
		Clute may disagree with those criticisms, but they were reasonably open to Collins to make.
	home.austin.rr.com /lperson/belljar.html (5833 words)

	Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		“John Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean” by Matthew Davis
		In this sense, I was of course trying to create something analogous to the montage in film, with the obvious disadvantage that they did not move, but with the advantage that they could be “followed” any which way.
		Judith Clute used two of them - “Mary Fell Silent Into History” and “The Sadness of the Egg” - as incipits for two of her paintings.
	www.johnclute.co.uk /word (1786 words)

	Special Circumstances: Appleseed by John Clute
		John Clute makes a mad grab at greatness, throwing everything into the process.
		It is an impressive feat that John Clute could write all this down, since it requires a herculean effort just to read it.
		In a valiant effort to rehaul the space opera genre, John Clute attempts to imagine strange technology, some of it is quite cool, and dresses it up in avant-garde prose.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000204.html (388 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Appleseed: Books: John Clute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Clute was so worried about showing off his gigantic vocabulary and his own shiny, all singing, all dancing, invented lexicon that he forgot to make the story any good.
		A good idea buried under a mountain of incomprehensible language that leaves the reader largely guessing what's happening in the 'real' world, as so much of the main protagonist's time is spent literally living in the abstract.
		However, this seems to be a trait of Clute's work, having read some of his short stories published in Interzone (among others) and, if you ignore the plot and just read, it does not detract at all from the book as a whole.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Appleseed-John-Clute/dp/1841491004 (883 words)

	Appleseed by John Clute
		Appleseed is the first novel in over twenty years by John Clute (best known as co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
		It's a bold, energetic pouring-out of Clute's vision of a future civilization in which social display is an obsession, and where the line between style and substance is blurred.
		While Clute writes in a poetic and wildly evocative fashion, he sacrifices style for substance.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Mar02/appleseed.htm (426 words)

	John Clute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Clute was Critic Guest of Honor at Readercon 4, received a Pilgrim Award from the SFRA in 1994, was Distinguished Guest Scholar at the 1999 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts.
		He was Associate Editor of the Hugo-winning first edition (Doubleday, 1979) of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, general editor Peter Nicholls; with Nicholls, he co-edited the second edition (St. Martin's, 1993), which won the British Science Fiction Special Award, the Locus Award, the Hugo, and the Eaton Grand Master Award.
		With John Grant, he co-edited Encyclopedia of Fantasy (St. Martin's, 1997), which won the Locus Award, the Hugo, the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Society Award, and the Eaton Award.
	www.readercon.org /bios/clute.htm (296 words)

	John Clute
		John Clute was born in Toronto in 1940, and is therefore a member of the "Noble Club of Pearls Before Boomers".
		He and Judith Clute moved to England in 1968, where he has lived since, with a few diversions elsewhere.
		With John Grant, he wrote The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (St. Martin's 1997), for which he won the Locus Award, Hugo, World Fantasy Award, Mythopoeic Society Award, and Eaton Award.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /c/john-clute (353 words)

	John Clute, The Darkening Garden -- A Short Lexicon of Horror
		John Clute is perhaps the only person who has succeeded in making a living as a science fiction critic outside of academia.
		Clute's language is every bit as mythopoeic as Catherynne M. Valente is in that lovely work.
		Clute so much define a topic, a trope, a meme if you will as create a story about it.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_clute_garden.html (1553 words)

	John Clute: BAYLEY, BARRINGTON J. (1937 - )
		John Clute: BAYLEY, BARRINGTON J. This article, an excerpt of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, is copyright 1993 by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, and is available here under the "fair use" provisions of US copyright law.
		UK writer, active as a freelance under various names for many years, author of juvenile stories, picture-strips and features as well as sf, which he began to publish with "Combat's End" for Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine in 1954.
		BJB continues to be seriously underestimated, perhaps because of his almost total restriction to pulp formats.
	www.oivas.com /bjb/jclute.htm (247 words)

	Interview: John Clute
		Born in 1940, John Clute makes his home in Britain.
		William Gibson has called Clute "formidable" and "an urban literary wit whose grasp of the genre, and of its place in the wider world of letters, are very likely unequaled in our time and language."
		Last week Clute sat down with Science Fiction Weekly to answer questions submitted by our readers about his views on science fiction, reading and the next millennium.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue29/interview.html (1497 words)

	Appleseed by John Clute - an infinity plus review
		John Clute, with his wealth of experience and genre knowledge, may not get everything right first time out (it would be asking a lot to expect Appleseed to meet the critical standards Clute himself sets), but one thing is sure: he won't get it wrong for lack of thinking or effort.
		A novel so immersed in the genre would really be best reviewed by, well, someone like John Clute.
		This is a novel with few compromises: in language and ideas Clute is pushing the boundaries, but is there a danger that he is pushing too hard and leaving many readers behind?
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/appleseed-rev.htm (864 words)

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