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1093571 No.1093571 [Reply] [Original]

Is The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by Clue & Grant worth picking up if you're a fantasy fan?

Same thing goes for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

>> No.1093583

>fantasy
>worth picking up
lol plebeian genre

>> No.1093588

>>1093583
Oh, Fake Stagolee, you never get old.

sage because I'd feel selfish bumping my thread for this post.

>> No.1093591

I have the Encyclopedia of SF. It's occasionally useful for a browse, but to be honest, Wikipedia does me just as well. The one thing I can't easily get off the net is Clute's indices of fiction on a particular topic.

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1093604

>>1093588
>fake stagolee

>> No.1093612

Wikipedia and TVTropes do it for me, but I've never read these myself.

>> No.1093632

>>1093588
That's the real Stagolee, son.

>> No.1093650

>>1093612
>>1093591

I guess I won't get them and instead spend my money on actual science fiction and fantasy.

Thanks!
>>1093632
>wrong trip
>no Joseph Gordon-Levitt
>Real Stagolee
right.....

>> No.1093670

>>1093650
the trip is right, dumbass, check the archives.
and the jogo thing is relatively new.

>> No.1093756

I love both of these, but they are a bit old (SFE is fom 1993 and FE from 1997, I think.) So you mght not think them worth buying new, but they're two books I use all the time.