I. F. Clarke

(July 10, 1918 – November 5, 2009)

Ignatius Frederic Clarke, a UK academic and bibliographer, was Professor of English (from 1964) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His first major publication was The Tale of the Future: From the Beginning to the Present Day (1961), a bibliography in several editions. This work was very useful but far from comprehensive. Later he wrote Voices Prophesying War (1966), a study of the future war sub-genre, and The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001 (1979).

Clarke also published an 8-volume anthology of British Future Fiction 1700–1913 (2001).

He was a British Intelligence officer during World War Two.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1974 — Pilgrim Award
• 1998 — Pioneer Award

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1918—2009

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