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| | SS > SF > book reviews > John Clute |
 | | On the surface, this might look like yet another of those glossy coffee table 'encyclopedias', with everything that needs to be said about a subject squeezed into a well-illustrated double page (on Cities, Satire, Gender, Space Wars, AIs, Robots, Alternate Worlds, Future Histories, Cyberpunk, Mars,...). |
 | | SF is a genre mainly of words, less of pictures, so the 'illustrated' part is dominated by photographs of book covers and authors. |
 | | This is a fun browsing book, with lots of variety: in addition to the two page spreads, there are timelines, author profiles and bibliographies, classic book profiles, and short-short reviews of SF films and TV shows. |
| www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/c/clute.htm (309 words) |
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