John Sladek
John Sladek
John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
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I do write a little SF in my spare time.
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
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I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
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Tom and I are never in the same city long enough and both between books, so a further collaboration looks unlikely for some time.
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.