John Clute

This huge volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the fantasy field, offering an exciting new analysis of this highly diverse and hugely popular sphere of literature, from precursors such as Shakespeare and Dante, through Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and L. Frank Baum to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and their modern successors, like Ursula K. Le Guin, Peter S. Beagle, Stephen R. Donaldson and Jostein Gaarder. With over 4,000 entries and over 1 million words, it covers every aspect of fantasy - in literature, films, television, opera, art and comics.

This is a collection of reviews by John Clute of science fiction and fantasy books. These reviews have been assembled from various sources, but mostly from Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly. Where it seemed possible to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews have been revised, sometimes extensively.