For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Strokes is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone , the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first science fiction, fantasy and the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1966 and 1986.