Interview: John Clute
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ou could say that John Clute has an encyclopedic knowledge of science fiction. He is best-known today as the editor of the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1995), co-editor with Peter Nicholls of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), and editor of Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (1995), which is currently up for a Hugo Award.

Born in 1940, John Clute makes his home in Britain. His criticism and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Omni, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and other places too numerous to list. A selection of his work has been collected in Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986 (Serconia Press). He was one of the founders of the U.K. magazine Interzone, and he also published a non-science fiction novel, The Disinheriting Party, in 1977.

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."

Next issue Science Fiction Weekly will sit down with Clute to discuss his views on science fiction, his work as a critic and his popular science fiction encyclopedias. As always we are letting our readers ask all the questions, so if you have anything you'd like to ask Clute, please use the form below:

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ou can submit your questions by filling out the form below or e-mailing them to 70334.2433@compuserve.com. We'll pick the top 10 questions posed by our readers and submit them to our interview subject.

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