His criticism and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Omni , the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , and other places too numerous to list. He was one of the founders of the U.K. magazine Interzone , and he also published a non-science fiction novel, The Disinheriting Party , in 1977. Last week Clute sat down with Science Fiction Weekly to answer questions submitted by our readers about his views on science fiction, reading and the next millennium. This is not to say that the sense of Story which lies at the heart of fantasy cannot lead to something we might call Truth. SF takes the shape of the world, upon which it extrapolates.
Recognition looks backward into the underlying truth.
Fantasy, on the other hand, is very much less defined. Its boundaries are not so much fences as fadings into water margins. It is vital to SF that it be based on some possible argument about the nature of the world. Its arguments derive also from human history, and our understanding of human nature. Answer See answer 3.