Cover © Judith Clute
PARDON THIS INTRUSION
Fantastika in the World Storm
John Clute
On the Locus "Recommended Reading List"
of the best non-fiction of 2011.
Photo © Judith Clute
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PARDON THIS INTRUSION
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following journals Locus #607 (by Gary K Wolfe) Vector #268 (by Paul Kincaid) Science Fiction Studies #116(v39.pt1) (by Gerry Canavan) SFRA Review #298 (by Leon Marvell) SFSite (by D. Douglas Fratz) The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts #23.3 (by T S Miller) and Foundation #114 ( by Pawel Frelik) "John Clute .....His 2011 collection Pardon this Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm reflects on what I believe will prove to be Clute's most important contribution to the field, the introduction of fantastika as an umbrella term for all fantastic literature and, by extension, the consideration of all the genres of fantastic literature as one coherent literary and cultural phenomenon." - Damien Walter, Guardian online, 28 Mar 2012 Full review at Guardian online Sample pieces from this book can be viewed here. |
| Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika – an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy – and the world we live in now. Of these pieces, "Next", a contemporary response to 9/11, has not been revised; everything else in Part One has been reworked, sometimes extensively. Parts Two, Three and Four include essays and author studies and introductions to particular works; as they are mostly recent, Clute has felt free to rework them where necessary. The few early pieces – including "Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS", a response to the Scientology scandal at the Brighton WorldCon in 1987 – are unchanged. Six essays, some of considerable length, are now published for the first time. |
| John Clute was born in 1940 in Canada. Beginning in his teens he lived for several years in the United States, which he continues to visit. Since 1969 he has lived in London. He began to review science fiction in the early 1960s, and currently contributes Scores, a regular critical column, to the online journal Strange Horizons. Much of this work has been gathered into collections. He has written two novels, Appleseed (2001) being science fiction. He has co-edited or written three encyclopedias of fantastika, including The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - the fourth edition of which is available free online here. He has won four Hugos, four Locus Awards, the World Fantasy Award, and others. For his critical work in particular he was given a Readercon Award in 1989, the Pilgrim Award in 1994, the Eaton Grand Master Award in 1995, the ICFA Distinguished Guest Scholar Award in 1999, and the Solstice Award in 2012 |
375 pages - 233mm x 150mm - Publication date 15 May 2011.
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