The third edition was conceived from the outset as an online resource, developed intensively from 2005 onward using a corrected and expanded version of the CD-ROM text as a starting point, and first launched in October 2011 as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ( 2011 web) edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls (who subsequently adopted the role of Editor Emeritus) and Graham Sleight (Managing Editor).
In the twenty-first century it became apparent that further expansion in book form was no longer practical for such a specialist reference work. See also the Introduction to the Second Book Edition Introduction to the CD-ROM Edition. The book version won a 1994 Hugo and Locus Award for best nonfiction book.
Again the encyclopedia was published as a single volume, with illustrations now omitted for reasons of space the length was some 1.3 million words, with over 65,000 words of additional material added for the CD-ROM edition. 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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