John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels. Read full biography of John Sladek →
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.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic... →
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... →
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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... →
John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.