#john sladek

[humanoidhistory]

Tim White cover art for Alien Accounts by John Sladek, 1982.

#tim white #john sladek #robot #illustration #science fiction #sci-fi

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Thom Demijohn (aka Thomas M. Disch & John Sladek) - Black Alice - Avon - 1970

#witches #bordellos #occult #vintage #fairy tales #thom demijohn #thomas m. disch #john sladek #black alice #avon books #1970

[rosewind2007]

I am reminded this morning that Carl Sagan said in Broca's Brain (1979):

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

As always I have to point to John Sladek* who put it five years earlier in 1974:

"They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Darwin, they laughed at Edison … and they laughed at Punch and Judy."

*the man’s surname is an anagram of Daleks!

#bozo the clown #punch and judy #carl sagan #John sladek

[beyondthespheres]

cover art by Rian Hughes

#Rian Hughes #Illustration #Science Fiction #Tik Tok #John Sladek

[gonzabasta]

#book #books #book review #john sladek #tik-tok #sci-fi

[jamesdavisnicoll]



The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek

The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek

A hapless American salaryman's inadvertent decapitation sets off a tour of the zany America of yesterday's tomorrow.

[sporcafaccenda]

Dick wrote approximately 30,000 extra words for the first book publication in 1966 of his 1964 novella "The Unteleported Man." However, his book editor rejected the expanded text and reprinted the original novella version instead. A newly revised publication of Dick's expanded text was planned towards the end of his life, but he died before its completion. Dick's original expanded version from the 1960s was then used in the posthumous 1983 USA edition of "The Unteleported Man" (except for 3 gaps due to missing manuscript pages, which were published as is). However, Dick's largely complete, revised version of the expanded text was used for the British publication in 1984, which carried the new title "Lies, Inc." (with 2 remaining manuscript gaps filled by John Sladek). Dick's original "missing pages" text for both of these expanded versions was then discovered and published in 1985 in the Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter #8. In 2004, the novel was reprinted in the USA using Dick's later revised "Lies, Inc." version of the text, and corrected for the first time to include the "missing pages" text rather than Sladek's bridging text. (However, there has not been a similar, corrected reprint of Dick's original 1960s expanded text.)

Source:ISFBD

#Philip K.Dick #Lies, Inc. #Mensonges & Cie #The Unteleported Man #SF

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/new-worlds-4-by-michael-moorcock-ed

7 The Problem of Sympathy by M. John Harrison 14 The Exploration of Space by Barrington Bayley 33 Simon by William A. Woodrow  45  The First of Two Raped Prospects by Marek Obtulowicz  58 334 by Thomas M. Disch  156   Man in Transit by Alan Aumbry (Barrington Bayley)  166 The Locked Room by John Sladek  173 Weihnachtabend by Keith Roberts  211 Attack-Escape: An Article About Alfred Bester by Charles Platt   222 The Authors

#science fiction #sf #new wave science fiction

[goodtobegeeking]

The Complete Roderick by John Sladek (book review)

The Complete Roderick by John Sladek (book review)

The last book I read by John Sladek (1937-2000) a long time ago was ‘The Müller-Fokker Effect’ (1970) which I thought was a bit bizarre, although its focus was on the survival of a human personality in a computer mainframe. I suspect people bought it because of its title than the content. ‘The Complete Roderick’ is a two novel combine in Gollancz’ SF Masterworks series originally released in…

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[books0977]

Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine. John Sladek. London, Toronto, Sydney, New York: Granada, [1980]. First edition. Original dust jacket.

The title character is an intelligent robot, the first to be invented. The opening chapters describe the creation of Roderick and show his mind (at first consisting of a bodiless computer program) developing through several stages of awareness. Finally, Roderick is given a rudimentary body and, through a series of misadventures, finds himself alone in the world. Due to his sketchy understanding of human customs, and intrigues surrounding the project that created him, he unwittingly becomes the center of various criminal schemes and other unfortunate events.

#roderick #John Sladek #first edition #original dust jacket

[inhumanrobot]

“R-4 got stuck on the First Law. ‘Can anyone really protect a human eing from all harm whatever?’ it thought. ‘No. It is inevitable that all human must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. This future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo  …’ It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).”  Broot Force - John Sladek

#john sladek #blood #gore #my art #marchofrobots2020 #ok i spelled listen wrong welp

[dynamobooks]

John Sladek: The Complete Roderick (1980/1983)

#john sladek #roderick #robot #ai #science fiction #sf masterworks #machine learning

[ouruncriticalmess]

John Sladek | Roderick oder die Erziehung einer Maschine (Roderick) | 1982 (1980)

Cover Artist: Stanislaw Fernandes

John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.

Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine is a 1980 science fiction novel. It was followed in 1983 by Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine. Roderick and Roderick at Random offer the traditional satirical approach of looking at the world through the eyes of an innocent, in this case a robot.

#John Sladek #science fiction #robot #retro scifi #1980 #Stanislaw Fernandes

[olde-paperbacks]

safe to say star wars would have been much better had C-3PO looked like this

#sci fi #sci fi covers #pulp fiction #pulp fiction covers #robots #robotics #tik-tok #john sladek

[groc]

Obituary: John Sladek | Books | The Guardian

[70sscifiart]

Josh Kirby’s 1970 cover art for The Reproductive System, by John Sladek

#Josh Kirby #colorful #astronaut