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 found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
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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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This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
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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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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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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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I always figure I can have the Midwest one way or the other. Because it's my background, it ought to be a voice that comes easily.
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
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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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To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
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SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.