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The Steam-Driven Boy is John Sladek's first collection of
brilliant, eccentric, darkly satirical and downright weird science
fiction stories. As a bonus it includes his parodies of SF authors,
uproariously spoofing Asimov (and the Laws of Robotics), Ballard,
Bradbury, Dick, Poe, Cordwainer Smith, and more.
The last book by one of the most original, brilliant and
under-rated American writers of the 20th century. Like many of
Sladek's earlier books, Wholly Smokes is almost impossible to
categorize, other than to say it is the fictionalized history of a
tobacco company, one which seems to have been present at, or had
bizarre influence on, many of the great moments of history.
Alien Accounts, published in British paperback in 1982, was the
third collection of John Sladek's brilliant and eccentric short
stories. There has never been an American edition until now.
John Sladek's hilarious SF satires may show a world riddled with
shambolic flaws, but this (he pointed out) is actually the good
news: "My own small ray of hope concerns human frailty. All
conspiracies, no matter how monstrous, are ultimately the work of
mere imperfect people, whose irresolution or bad judgement or even
bad conscience works against the system. They get bunions, their
cars break down, their children run away -and all this grit gets
into the smooth-running gears of their world domination plans. I
hope."
Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek is a compilation of 60 of John
Sladek's previously uncollected short stories, including a few
poems, playlets, essays and collaborations with Thomas Disch
Roderick is a robot and this is his autobiography. Sladek conveys,
with great sensitivity and insight the innocence of an artificial
intelligence and asks profound questions about mankind's right to
manipulate others. It also portrays how a numerological mind might
structure a narrative. Inventive, funny yet melancholy this is one
of SF's greatest creative geniuses writing at his thought-provoking
best.
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