John Clute Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Critic, novelist, editor of Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (http://t.co/N3v6Wj2SOK)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred DoblinJohn CluteThe formidable C D Godwin has now translated three previously books by Alfred Doblin previously unavailable in English (Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz has been in English since early 1930s). Here https://t.co/jon8qkxzXk is new stuff, including sf novel Mountains Oceans Giants.
Paperback, 2018
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The Fixed Period: A Novel: Vol. II.
Anthony TrollopeJohn CluteWe rightly don't much think about Anthony TROLLOPE https://t.co/FJevmBjaKu of The Barchester Chronicles as having much to do with sf. But his posthumous novel, The Fixed Period (1882), is sf, and there's The New Zealander (written 1856; pub 1974), nonfiction about the UK's future
Paperback, 2019
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The Three Clerks. By: Anthony Trollope: Novel
Anthony TrollopeJohn CluteWe rightly don't much think about Anthony TROLLOPE https://t.co/FJevmBjaKu of The Barchester Chronicles as having much to do with sf. But his posthumous novel, The Fixed Period (1882), is sf, and there's The New Zealander (written 1856; pub 1974), nonfiction about the UK's future
Paperback, 2017
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On the Beach
Nevil ShuteJohn CluteThe name Nevil Shute now tends to evoke memories of his 1957 novel ON THE BEACH (well filmed), but not much else. In fact he wrote quite a lot, and some of what he wrote seemed to warrant mention in the 750-word SFE entry on him: https://t.co/V9E88ZJ5nC
Paperback, 2010
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The Snowman: A Classic Children's Book
Raymond BriggsJohn CluteRIP Raymond BRIGGS https://t.co/7xwdx4d3dr most famous perhaps for THE SNOWMAN, but most astonishing for WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (1982), about the End of the World as it affects "small" real people.
Board Book, 2019
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Metropolis
Thea Von HarbouJohn CluteAt least 1000 scans in the SFE Picture Gallery provide an additional scan -- just hit "See below caption for alternative view" -- at the top of each cover image so provided. Here's the gallery for Thea Von Harbou https://t.co/E0Uzx9tToZ Check out METROPOLIS.
Paperback, 2015
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Wolf Hall
Hilary MantelJohn CluteRIP Hilary MANTEL https://t.co/SN0iwfXOvQ , a superb novelist from long before WOLF HALL; at 70, far too soon (to our grasping eyes) for a novelist who continued to say more with each new book.
Paperback, 2021
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Cards of Identity
Nigel Forbes DennisJohn CluteBorn this day in 1927, UK novelist and playwright Nigel DENNIS https://t.co/LLrGjnnxcQ whose Cards of Identity (1955) contains one of the funniest Shakespeare parodies ever written. The dj of the book is by Lucien Freud.
Paperback, 2002
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Mountains Oceans Giants: An Epic of the 27th Century
Alfred DoblinJohn CluteThe formidable C D Godwin has now translated three previously books by Alfred Doblin previously unavailable in English (Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz has been in English since early 1930s). Here https://t.co/jon8qkxzXk is new stuff, including sf novel Mountains Oceans Giants.
Paperback, 2021
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Deep Wheel Orcadia
Harry Josephine GilesJohn CluteHarry Josephine GILES. See previous tweet. Finger hit button before I named their winning book-length poem, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, written in Orkney plus deeply interesting cabbalistically-intense translation/recasting by Giles.
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