The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

John Frederick Clute 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 and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy , 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 was released online as a beta text in October 2011.
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Peter Nicholls is an Australian literary scholar and critic. He is the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he spent two decades as an expatriate, first in the US, and then the UK. Nicholls' early career was as a literary academic,... originally with The University of Melbourne. He first travelled to the US in 1968 on a Harkness fellowship, and his significant contributions to science fiction scholarship and criticism began in 1971, when he became the first Administrator of the Science Fiction Foundation , a position he held until 1977. He was editor of its journal, Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction from 1974-8. In 1979, Nicholls edited The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , with John Clute as associate editor. Most of its 730 thousand words were written by Nicholls, Clute and two contributing editors. At the time, this was widely perceived as the most comprehensive and sophisticated critical survey of the entire science fiction field ever attempted. It won the 1980 Hugo Award in the Nonfiction Book category.
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