- Taschenbuch
- Verlag: St. Martin's Press; Auflage: Reprint (November 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 031213486X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312134860
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 18,8 x 5,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 446.394 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Did your last con visit leave you feeling out of touch? Was the latest issue of Locus full of unfamiliar writers? Or are you looking for a definitive analysis of the role of eschatology in science fiction? Look no further. You can find all the help you need, and the answers to questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask, in John Clute and Peter Nicholls's invaluable reference work, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. In the introduction, Clute and Nicholls write, "We see this book as more than merely an encyclopedia of sf; it is a comprehensive history and analysis of the genre."
With over 4,360 entries and 1,300,000 words, this is a jam-packed sourcebook on science fiction authors, books, subgenres, movements, and history. You can live without it, but why would you want to? It's got riveting trivia on every page, hours of browsing enjoyment, and endless potential for playing spot-the-error, a game popular among science fiction writers and fans. Clute and Nicholls have put together an admirable, ever-improving encyclopedia that tries to encompass a genre that grows new pseudopods every year. This is a great resource for fans and writers. Those with a yen for a more visual approach might appreciate Clute's Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, and fantasy readers and writers should definitely check out The Encyclopedia of Fantasy when the new edition is published early in 1999. --Therese Littleton
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Science fiction has long needed this comprehensive encyclopedia. Although the biographical details are necessarily short, and some of the entries border on the hopelessly opinionated, the authors provide an invaluable listing of almost every single author and subject in the genre. Particularly wonderful are the bibliographies of the complete books of each author; finally, a reader can know if he's read all of his favorite writer. It's not the kind of book one reads from cover to cover, but playing encyclopedia tag is wonderful fun; pick a page, read an entry, and then follow the references to other subjects until you get hopelessly, wonderfully lost! An excellent gift for any readers who are never without a science fiction book in their hands (and for whom you're afraid to buy something they have already read).
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No serious science fiction fan should be without this book. Since this book is filled with analyses of authors' works, it is SPOILER LADEN. So if you use it for reading suggestions (as I do), you must learn to read around the plot summaries. Caveat lector
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A book that all serious sci-fi fans will find useful. An excellent reference text, it also does well for browsing - just flip open any page and you find something interesting, which will lead you on to something more interesting, and before you know it, hours have passed! Opinionated but always entertaining, the Encyclopaedia is definitely worth a buy. Warning - the binding is a tad flimsy though (or maybe it's all the abuse that my copy's been through)
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