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Science fiction, it seems to me, constitutes the right brain hemisphere of contemporary fiction (the dreaming part). My work ... is probably somewhere near the lobotomy scars.[http://www.grasslimb.com/sallis/GlobeColumns/globe.14.sladek.html]
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Science fiction, it seems to me, constitutes the right brain hemisphere of contemporary fiction (the dreaming part). My work ... is probably somewhere near the lobotomy scars.<ref>from ''Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers'', cited in [http://www.grasslimb.com/sallis/GlobeColumns/globe.14.sladek.html Sallis]</ref>
 
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Notes are here for these books:
 
Notes are here for these books:
  
* ''[[Roderick]]''
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* '''''[[Tik-Tok]]''''' (under construction)
  
I recommend reading anything you can find by him, but my other favorite is probably ''Tik-Tok''.
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I recommend reading anything you can find by him, but my other favorite is probably ''The Reproductive System''.
  
 
== Other reading ==
 
== Other reading ==
* [[wikipedia:John Sladek|Wikipedia]] - biography etc.
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* {{wp|John Sladek|Wikipedia}} - biography etc.
* great [http://ansible.uk/writing/jsladek.html interview] from 1982 by David Langford, cited in many of these notes
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* {{cite Sladek SF Encyclopedia}}
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* {{cite Sladek Langford obit}}
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* {{cite Sladek Langford}}
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* {{cite article|author=Davis, Matthew|date=January 2006|title=Alien #E538368: Sladek, John Thomas|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707131434/http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10230|publication=The Internet Review of Science Fiction}} {{InternetArchive|date=July 7, 2017}}
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* {{cite article|author=Sallis, James|title=John Sladek: The high priest of something else|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418182508/http://www.grasslimb.com/sallis/GlobeColumns/globe.14.sladek.html|publication=The Boston Globe: A Reading Life}} {{InternetArchive|date=April 18, 2021}}
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[[Category:John Sladek]]
 
[[Category:John Sladek]]

Latest revision as of 01:55, 25 January 2025

John Sladek (1937-2000), Midwestern ambassador to the British New Wave science fiction movement, purveyor of antic satire, occasional collaborator with Thomas M. Disch. Now sadly obscure in the US.

Science fiction, it seems to me, constitutes the right brain hemisphere of contemporary fiction (the dreaming part). My work ... is probably somewhere near the lobotomy scars.[1]

Notes are here for these books:

I recommend reading anything you can find by him, but my other favorite is probably The Reproductive System.

Other reading

  1. from Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, cited in Sallis