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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction contains entries under the categories of authors, themes, terminology, science fiction in various countries, films, filmmakers, television, magazines, fanzines, comics, illustrators, book publishers, original anthologies, awards, and miscellaneous.
- John Clute, Peter Nicholls
- United Kingdom
- 1979
- English
Welcome to the Fourth Edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, launched online on 6 October 2021 as a direct continuation of the Third Edition, following the amicable end of our decade-long partnership with Gollancz and the SF Gateway. This reference work, which we continue to refer to in short as the SFE, is edited by John Clute and ...
913 entries: 642 full, 271 cross-reference (>) Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
About this Site. Site information page updated 30 September 2021. Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the second to appear online. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms. For more about the Encyclopedia, please follow these links:
Science Fiction Series. A series of eighteen pamphlets published between 1929 and 1932 by Hugo Gernsback 's Stellar Publishing Corporation, and seemingly edited by him. The pamphlets were either 24 or 28 pages long, and were published without cover illustrations, though early ads do show illustrated covers for the first twelve, which were in ...
Genre SF was usually published in the first instance in magazine format (at least until the paperback book revolution of the 1950s). The first English-language magazine devoted wholly to sf was Amazing Stories, founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback; it was subtitled "The Magazine of Scientifiction" (see Scientifiction ).
The present encyclopedia was first conceived by Peter Nicholls in the mid-1970s and was published as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z ( 1979; vt The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1979 ). The title page listed Nicholls as General Editor, John Clute as Associate Editor, Carolyn Eardley as Technical Editor, and Malcolm ...
