Look at the Evidence: Essays & Reviews [Hardcover]

John Clute (Author)

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About the Author

John Clute has been writing about SF and fantasy for over thirty years, but he has never lost his love of the genre; his capacity to startle and to infuriate (and to win over) his readers; the intensity of his conviction that every word counts (that those stories which succeed must be loved, that those stories which fail must be judged); nor his awareness that every word he himself writes should be assessed as exactingly as he assesses the words of others. John Clute's previous collection of reviews and essays, Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986, won a 1989 Readercon Award, and in 1994 he won the Pilgrim Award for "distinguished contributions to the study of science fiction."

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: John D. Barry Design (1995)
• ISBN-10: 0934933057
• ISBN-13: 978-0934933056
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,517,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars dealing with sf as seriously as it probably deserves, April 18, 1999

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This review is from: Look at the Evidence: Essays & Reviews (Paperback)

Here John Clute goes for broke. This collection of his more recent ('80s for the most part) sf criticism is easier on the vocabulary than his earlier, and often deeply annoying, writings for New Worlds magazine. It still, however, comes at you as though he thinks the world should make sense, and the device for this revelation should be sf. Complex, often very funny (see the demolition of The Legacy of Heorot by Niven/Pornelle and friends) but essentially spot on. If you like sf and are worried about its transformation into a branch of marketing science you should read this.