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John Sladek

American Author

Born: Dec 15, 1937

Died: Mar 10, 2000

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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. John Sladek

Great People Laughed Inventors

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. John Sladek

Science World Sense Way Out Kind One-Way Like Science Fiction Making Goes Fiction Senseless Which Explanation Standard Why

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. John Sladek

Advantage Least Preconceptions Depending

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. John Sladek

Writing Reading Whatever Seems Influence Moment

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. John Sladek

Poverty Nothing Our Only Fact Write Principle Read Deal Edit Does Due Happen Anything Who Ever Imaginations

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. John Sladek

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. John Sladek

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