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| Born | John Frederick Clute 12 September 1940 Canada |
| Occupation | Author, critic, writer |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940)[1] is a Canadian-born author and critic. He mainly writes about science fiction and fantasy literature, He has lived in England and the United States since 1969. He is a very important person in the history of science fiction.[2] He was one of eight people who started the English magazine Interzone in 1982[2] (the others including Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Roz Kaveney, and David Pringle).
Clute's articles on science fiction have appeared in many publications since the 1960s. He is a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with Peter Nicholls) and of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (with John Grant), and The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction. All three won Hugo Awards for Best Non-Fiction. He earned the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship, in 1994.
- ↑ John Clute at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Davis, Matthew John Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean Archived 21 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Strange Horizons, 18 September 2006.