John Clute
John Clute
John Frederick Cluteis a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fictionand 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 sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known."...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
escaped far groves labeled novels professors science stigma university written
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
dream book referring
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
fiction pieces location
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.