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I recommend reading anything you can find by him, but my other favorite is probably ''The Reproductive System''. | I recommend reading anything you can find by him, but my other favorite is probably ''The Reproductive System''. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:55, 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
- Wikipedia - biography etc.
- Clute, John. "Sladek, John T.". Science Fiction Encyclopedia.
- Langford, David (February 2001). "Remembering John Sladek". Fortean Times, 143. Accessed on July 20, 2016.
- Langford, David (February 1983). "An Interview with John Sladek". Vector, 112. Accessed on July 20, 2016.
- Davis, Matthew (January 2006). "Alien #E538368: Sladek, John Thomas". The Internet Review of Science Fiction. (Internet Archive link, archived July 7, 2017)
- Sallis, James. "John Sladek: The high priest of something else". The Boston Globe: A Reading Life. (Internet Archive link, archived April 18, 2021)