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John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 - March 10, 2000) was an American science-fiction author. He was known for his satirical and surrealistic novels. Innate inside Minnesota witharound 1937, Sladek was in England in the 1960s for the New Wave movement. His foremost novel, published around London by Gollancz as The Reproductive System and in the United States as Mechasm, dealt with the task to build machines that build copies of themselves, a run that gets beyond control & threatens to kill humanity. In The Müller-Fokker Effect, an attempt to preserve human personality in tape also goes awry, returning andy skinner the risk to satirize large business, large religion, chauvinism, & men's magazines, among more items. Roderick and Roderick at Random offer the traditional satiric approach of seeking at the world through the eyes of an inexperienced person, therein pack the golem. Sladek revisited automaton from either the darker point of look at inside Tik-Tok, featuring a sociopathic robot world health organization lacks any moral "asimov circuits", and Bugs, the wide-ranging caustic remark where the pitiable technical indicator writer (the job Sladek pursued for numbers of years) aids to produce a golem world health organization quickly goes harebrained. Sladek was besides known for his brief parodies of more sf writers, like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Cordwainer Smith. a nonindulgent materialist, Sladek subjected dubious science & the occult to unmerciful scrutiny in The New Apocrypha and, under the title of James Vogh, wrote Arachne Rising, which purports to be the nonfictional prose account of the thirteenth sign of the zodiac suppressed per scientific establishment, inside an attempt to demonstrate that population might suppose anything. He likewise co-wrote 2 pseudonymous novels by having his friend Thomas M. Disch, the Gothic The House that Fear Built (as Cassandra Knye) and the satirical thriller Black Alice (as Thom Demijohn). Sladek returned from either England to Minnesota inside 1986, where he lived until his dying inside 2000 from pulmonary fibrosis.
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SFcrowsnest.com: Maps Book review of Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek, edited by David Langford. Obituary: John Sladek From The Guardian. Stop Evolution in its Tracks Online text of short story satirizing Creationism. Betterhumans: The Müller-Fokker Effect Review of 1970 novel, describing it as nasty wicked fun. Crescent Blues Book Views: The Reproductive System Lynn I. Miller reviews the author's first novel. Infinity Plus: The Complete Roderick Richard Hammersley reviews Roderick and Roderick at Random. |
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