<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c440bda8-b366-444b-a665-1eee0e0e78f1/6B7492C8-40D7-4EA6-92FA-3D78CFA82968/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html" href="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.galactic-guide.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><H1 align="center">Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction <FONT color="#999999">(Real)</FONT></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><H2 align="center">Science Fiction Reference Work</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><P><A href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/1857238974?ie=UTF8&tag=alexmclintosbook&link_code=em1&camp=212341&creative=384049&creativeASIN=1857238974&adid=e155938d-9cb1-4f9a-8bc9-34fb1c39edd2" target="_blank" id="amzn_cl_link_0" name="1857238974">The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</A> was edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls. It costs 45 UK pounds in hardback and is published by Orbit. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><P>The Blue Book, as I shall call it, doesn't really need a review. It needs statistics. It has 1370 pages, 1.2 million words, and 4300 entries. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><P>And that is all I can say about it. It has everything I never needed to know. The nationality of the last author in the book is Polish (not Hungarian as I thought). If the Blue Book has any faults it is that it takes itself too seriously. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><P>I would like to have seen more cross referencing of <A href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/0313233802?ie=UTF8&tag=alexmclintosbook&link_code=em1&camp=212341&creative=384049&creativeASIN=0313233802&adid=3faa17c2-2fcd-4cd0-8344-bf01fbe21c67" target="_blank" id="amzn_cl_link_1" name="0313233802">science fiction</A> terms. There is the obligatory entry on time travel, hyper space, and so on, but less well-know terms such as "Slans" were by passed. Comics and fantasy novelists are also left out. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R157.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2R38.html">Jargon In British Science Fiction Fandom</A> </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6B7492C8-40D7-4EA6-92FA-3D78CFA82968/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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