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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Paperback – November 1, 1995
- Print length1386 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication dateNovember 1, 1995
- Dimensions7.25 x 2.25 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-10031213486X
- ISBN-13978-0312134860
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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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- Publisher : St Martins Pr; Reprint edition (November 1, 1995)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 1386 pages
- ISBN-10 : 031213486X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312134860
- Item Weight : 4.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.25 x 2.25 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,074,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Sheldon (Sheli) Teitelbaum is a Los Angeles-based Canadian/Israeli editor and writer, a former contributor to and member of the editorial board of the seminal Israeli SF magazine Fantasia 2000. He has contributed essays on Jewish and Israeli SF/F to the scholarly journal Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, to the SF/F trade magazine Locus, and to the authoritative second and third (online) editions of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia Judaica. Teitelbaum has also covered SF film, television, books and dark fantasy extensively for Cinefantastique, Midnight Graffiti, The Los Angeles Times, Wired, SF Eye, the Jerusalem Report, The Forward and the Jerusalem Post. The second and subsequent online edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Orbit, 1993) cited him as the first Israeli critic to contribute a regular column on science fiction to a daily Israeli newspaper. Dr. Adam Rovner, an Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature at the University of Denver, generously (if extravagantly) described Teitelbaum in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal as “the expert in the area of Israeli sci-fi.” A longtime senior writer for the Jerusalem Report and erstwhile editor and reporter for The Jerusalem Post, Teitelbaum received Canada’s first Northern Lights Award and three Brandeis University Jewish Press Association Awards. He is a member of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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