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John Sladek


(John Thomas Sladek)
USA flag (1937 - 2000)

aka Thom Demijohn, Cassandra Knye

John Sladek was born in America in 1937 but moved to the UK in 1966, where he became involved with the British New Wave movement. He began writing sf with 'The Happy Breed' which appeared in Dangerous Visions in 1967. He is now recognized as one of the most brilliant satirists of out time. His novels and short story collections include The Muller Fokker Effect, Tik Tok, Roderick and The Lunatics of Terra. He moved back to Minneapolis in the mid 1980s, where he died in March 2000.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Roderick
   1. Roderick (1980)
   2. Roderick at Random (1983)
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Novels
   The House That Fear Built (1966) (as by Cassandra Knye)
   Black Alice (1968) (as by Thom Demijohn)
   The Reproductive System (1968)
     aka Mechasm
   The Muller-Fokker Effect (1970)
   Black Aura (1974)
   Invisible Green (1977)
   Tik-Tok (1983)
   Bugs (1989)
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Collections
   The Steam-Driven Boy (1970)
   Keep the Giraffe Burning (1978)
   The Best of John Sladek (1980)
   Alien Accounts (1982)
   The Lunatics of Terra (1984)
   The Book of Clues (1984)
   The Complete Roderick (2001)
   Maps (2002)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
John Sladek recommends
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Man Plus (1976)
Frederik Pohl
"One of the most exciting, brilliantly conceived, and capably written SF novels."

Anthologies containing stories by John Sladek

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Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1982) : Roderick
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1984) : Tik-Tok


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