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Article: Michael Burgess and Lisa R. Bartle, eds. Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2nd ed.).(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 2003
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Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2002. 605 pp. $75.00.
IT IS THE MEASURE of how quickly the bibliographical coverage of a field can change that the two single most important volumes in science fiction and fantasy--Clute and Nichols's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) and Clute's Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)--were not available for the first (1992) edition of this book. This second edition of the Reference Guide includes 150 new entries and extensive reworkings of many--up to half--of the entries from the first edition, making it an authoritative and essential volume for the serious scholar of science fiction, fantasy, horror and any field (such as utopian ...