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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
1997 book by John Clute and John Grant
1997 book by John Clute and John Grant
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |
| image | Clute & Grant - The Encyclopedia of Fantasy Coverart.png |
| caption | Cover of the first edition |
| authors | |
| cover_artist | Peter Goodfellow |
| country | United Kingdom |
| language | English |
| subject | Fantasy |
| publisher | Orbit Books UK; St. Martin's Press US |
| pub_date | 3 April 1997 |
| media_type | Print (hardback and paperback), online |
| pages | 832 pp (first edition) |
| isbn | 978-1-85723-368-1 |
| oclc | 37106061 |
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 reference work covering fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant. As of November 2012, the full text of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is available online, as a companion to the online edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Other than adding death dates, there are no plans to update the encyclopaedia.
The book was well-received on publication, receiving the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award in 1998.
Format and content
The Encyclopedia was published in a format that matches the 1993 second edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It is slightly smaller in terms of content, containing 1,049 alphabetical pages, over 4,000 entries and approximately one million words, the bulk of which were written by Clute, Grant and Ashley. A later CD-ROM edition contains numerous revisions.
The Encyclopedia uses a similar system of categorisation to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, but does not include an index of theme entries. A theme index was later included in the online addenda. One of the major differences is that there are no entries related to publishing.
Reception
Characterising the book as "an excellent and highly readable source for fantasy", the industry publication Library Journal described The Encyclopedia of Fantasy as "the first of its kind".
Rob Latham writing for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts called it "a sprawling map of the field's major authors and texts and an extraordinary cohesive argument", "an indispensable work of reference" and "perhaps the most substantial critical analysis ever to focus on fantasy literature and art".
Awards
- 1998 – Hugo Award for Best Related Work
- 1998 – World Fantasy Special Award—Professional
- 1998 – Locus Award for Nonfiction
Editions
- Clute, John and Grant, John. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1st UK edition). London: Orbit Books, 1997. .
- Clute, John and Grant, John. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. .
- Clute, John and Grant, John. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (2nd US edition). New York: St Martin's Griffin, 1999. .
References
References
- (27 November 2012). "At last the Encyclopedia of Fantasy is free and searchable online!". [[io9]].
- (1 December 2012). "The Encyclopedia of Fantasy".
- Dollard, Peter A.. (June 2018). "''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy''". [[Library Journal]].
- Latham, Rob. (1998). ""The Encyclopedia of Fantasy" as a "critical tour de force"". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
- (26 July 2007). "Hugo Awards: 1998 Hugo Awards".
- "World Fantasy Convention: 1998 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees".
- "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1998 Locus Awards".
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