For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. As Scores demonstrates, his devotion to the task of understanding the central literatures of our era has not slackened. There are jokes in Scores, and curses, and tirades, and apologies, and riffs; but every word of every review, in the end, is about how we understand the stories we tell about the world.
Following on from his two previous books of collected reviews (Strokes and Look at the Evidence) this book collects reviews from a wide variety of sources, but mostly from Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly. Where it has seemed possible to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews have been revised, sometimes extensively.
125 review articles, over 200 books reviewed in more than 214,000 words.
- ISBN10 1870824474
- ISBN13 9781870824477
- Publish Date 18 September 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 August 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Beccon Publications
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 438
- Language English