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John Clute

(1940) Writer

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John Clute is a writer.

Quick Facts About John Clute

Born: September 12, 1940
Profession: Writer

About John Clute

[Wikidata] Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary critic (born 1940)... | [Wikipedia] John Frederick Clute is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history" and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of science

Quotes by John Clute

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,…

Adopt

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Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

Book

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We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for…

Afford

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“More interestingly, it could be argued that, if fantasy (and debatably the literature of the fantastic as a whole) has a purpose…

Books

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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most…

Anything

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Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be…

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