John Clute

Critic, novelist, editor of Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (

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The list of American writers in Coover's cohort (see previous tweet) should have of courseincluded https://t.co/esozWgT6ox Only real excuse is my thinking she was a lot younger, which she in fact isn't (born 1938). And I do think of her impact as weighting in the 21st century

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RIP Robert COOVER, at 92, almost the last of his age to have changed our worlds, from 1960 or so. The rest of them who made us up still include Don https://t.co/momRJ9yRRS, Joseph https://t.co/FgVqz1akC6, Thomas https://t.co/ct9A2YGJRT. And I'd add Jerome https://t.co/5p7c8hiFvk

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RIP Peter JAY https://t.co/UVdMWVun6x

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RIP M J ENGH https://t.co/h3PumoWawW

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RIP Robert IRWIN https://t.co/lyuHnrVnuj He wrote intricate tales in a sly voice that failed to conceal the intensity and the brilliance. His friendship was treasured. He had a gift of knowing: I felt he knew me (for one) at a glance. Loved his late books.

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RIP John Maddox ROBERTS https://t.co/uaqb98HJCw

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@eean Kafka would have enjoyed that.

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Franz KAFKA https://t.co/Avlq8OasH9 died one century ago. He haunts every word we write, just as he haunts every entry in the SFE, from somewhere deep within. He is the hippocampus of the century.

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Here is a new entry which brings the number of Nobel Prize for Literature laureates with an entry in the SFE up to 25. https://t.co/lxfXCXQiQ3

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RIP John BURNSIDE https://t.co/BuPOMfwK0T

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RIP Caleb CARR https://t.co/qWT5FjAOrH

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RIP H Bruce FRANKLIN https://t.co/HcBR6713U8 I remember him at ICFA conference(s) in Florida in the 1990s. A wiry deft man (with a big appetite), tough-minded, courteous but (I think rightly) intransigent. Icebreaker eyebrows. A good smile.

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RIP Roger CORMAN https://t.co/9z4ue7fpjT

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RIP Paul AUSTER https://t.co/YWSB28i4Rf , who lived along the Brooklyn end moraine, and created one of the Deep New Yorks (there are several).

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RIP C J SANSOM https://t.co/Sz9UerQUJ7 best known for Shardlake historical mysteries, but also for one sharp HITLER WINS tale, Dominion (2012).

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RIP John BARTH https://t.co/BF6KGN90o4

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RIP Martin BAX https://t.co/VPqFrP6m0i

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RIP Vernor VINGE https://t.co/LHdaLM36an who reawakened the joy of hard-thought story-driven sf for contemporaries like me. I still reread A FIRE UPON THE DEEP for the elatedness of its galaxy-building. In person, he pulled you into his voice, light with gravity.

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RIP Edward BOND https://t.co/IlLc5Iq0Dj

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SFE: We put up statistics occasionally as markers along this road we're on. One of them is the total number of "creator" entries -- authors and artists -- we have scans for in the picture Gallery. Total (minus overlaps) just passed 6,000. Only 1 for some. 100s for a few others.