Scores: Reviews 1993-2003.(Book Review)

John Clute Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 Harold timber-land Essex, UK: Beccon Publications, 2003 428 pp $2700 pb

in what way to approach Clute? How to approach an ineluctable cultural edifice whose critical perspicacity I greatly reverence but whose elliptical dull I occasionally have trouble understanding? When I first became seriously interested in science fiction the gold standard for work reviewing was the work of Damon Knight and James Blish. For several decades now, however, that standard has been place in the work of John Clute editor, with Peter Nicholls, of the monumental