Sticking to the End
Sticking to the End is John Clute's seventh collection of reviews and other pieces. It is broken into four parts. Part One presents around 100,000 words of reviews from late 2014 until now, none previously collected. They follow on directly from the pieces assembled in Stay, and illustrate Clute's long-iterated contention that fantastika is the natural and necessary form of story in the twenty-first century: now more than ever the case, two decades into this period. Part Two contains short pieces in memory of some friends. Part Three contains some essays, highly selected but including a further piece on fantastika, "The Sacred Grove". Part Four contains a number of essay/reviews of films and television miniseries; they are versions of entries in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction from 2014 on.