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'''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.
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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]]''
 
* ''[[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.
 
* [[wikipedia:John Sladek|Wikipedia]] - biography etc.
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* [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sladek_john_t Encyclopedia of Science Fiction], John Clute
 
* great [http://ansible.uk/writing/jsladek.html interview] from 1982 by David Langford, cited in many of these notes
 
* great [http://ansible.uk/writing/jsladek.html interview] from 1982 by David Langford, cited in many of these notes
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* [http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10230 Internet Review of Science Fiction], Matthew Davis
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* [http://www.grasslimb.com/sallis/GlobeColumns/globe.14.sladek.html "The High Priest of Something Else"], James Sallis
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* [http://www.bsfa.co.uk/www.vectormagazine.co.uk/article.asp%3FarticleID=34.html review of his short story collections] from Vector Magazine
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 20 November 2016

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