![]() As before, there were numerous other contributors, but most entries were written by the editors. The title page also listed Brian Stableford as the sole (and very extensive) Contributing Editor and John Grant as Technical Editor. The second edition, co-edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, was The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ( 19 further rev vt Grolier Science Fiction: The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1995 CD-ROM further rev 1999). Further statistical detail on this and later editions may be found in the Statistics entry see also the Introduction to the First Edition. This first edition was published as a single volume illustrated with author photographs, magazine covers, film stills etc and ran to some 730,000 words. It won a 1980 Hugo for best nonfiction book. Besides the expected coverage of authors, artists, Cinema, publications ( SF Magazines and Fanzines) and Television, the encyclopedia offered an extensive network of entries on sf themes and Terminology. Numerous others were involved, including John Brosnan who wrote many film entries. ![]() The title page listed Nicholls as General Editor, John Clute as Associate Editor, Carolyn Eardley as Technical Editor, and Malcolm Edwards and Brian Stableford as Contributing Editors. ![]() The present encyclopedia was first conceived by Peter Nicholls in the mid-1970s and was published as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z ( 1979 vt The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1979). ![]()
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