SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for what we mean by Science Fiction; here for the masthead; here for some Statistics; here for the Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 12 October 2026
Sponsor of the day: The Telluride Institute
Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Paterson, Don
(1963- ) Scottish academic, editor, musician, composer and author, active from the late 1980s. His Poetry, which has been assembled in several collections beginning with Nil Nil (coll 1993 chap), is vigorous, formally inventive, various. Of specific sf interest is Zonal (coll of linked poems 2020 chap), a set of explorations into something like autobiography through the lenses of ...
Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians, The
Japanese animated tv series (2024; original title Mahō Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi). J.C. Staff. Directed by Takashi Watanabe and Masato Matsune. Written by Hiroko Kanasugi. Based on the web novel by Yuzuki Akasaka. Voice cast includes Hana Hishikawa, Yui Horie, Hikaru Midorikawa, Mako Morino and Misuzu Yamada. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / As a child Kurumi Mirai (Hishikawa) is unhappy that she cannot perform ...
Scott-Moncrieff, D
(1907-1987) UK vintage car restorer and author, who hyphenated his surname for his books, which included some nonfiction. In Not for the Squeamish (coll 1948), the first of his two volumes of stories, of direct sf interest is "Count Szolnok's Robots", in which Robots are terminally evil, with several other tales edge into the realms of Gothic SF; his second collection, The Vaivaisukko's Bride (coll 1949 ...
Pope, Nick
(1965- ) US author of two Technothrillers, the Operation sequence comprising Operation Thunder Child (1999) and Operation Lightning Strike (2000), involving advanced Weapons used to threaten the UK, which turn out to prefigure an Alien Invasion. [JC]
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...