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Muller-Fokker Effect
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
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44 kr
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This novel is about the first truly modern man. His name''s Bob Shairp, and he gets completely turned into data and stored on computer tape. (How modern can you get?) Actually, there are quite a few other modern characters (though none so modern as Bob) in this book. There''s Wes Davis, who knows …
John Sladek SF Gateway Omnibus
The Reproductive System, The Muller-Fokker Effect, Tik-Tok
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the razor-sharp wit of John Sladek. An important voice in the New Wave movement, Sladek had stories published in Harlan Ellison''s seminal anthology, …
Reproductive System
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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Wompler''s Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map. But they aren''t selling like they used to. In fact, they aren''t selling at all and the only alternative to winding the company up is to tap the government for a research grant. And so Wompler Research Laboratories and Project 32 come …
Tik-Tok
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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''A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm''. That''s Asimov''s celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law. But something had gone terribly wrong with Tik-Tok''s ''asimov …
Bugs
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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This comic novel about an Englishman lost in the surreal high-tech computer country of America''s mid-west describes how the hero Fred Jones goes to America to seek his fortune and ends up with his private life out of control, working for the KGB and people wanting to murder him.
Steam-Driven Boy
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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John Sladek''s first short story collection. Sladek wrote some of the best science fiction stories of the 20th-century and his parodies of famous s/f authors are uproariously "right-on". His talent went under-appreciated except by a few devoted followers, even though his satirical writing was on a …
Keep The Giraffe Burning
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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John Sladek wrote some of the best science fiction stories of the 20th-century and his parodies of famous s/f authors are uproariously "right-on". His talent went under-appreciated except by a few devoted followers, even though his satirical writing was on a par with the early Kurt Vonnegut. Keep …
Alien Accounts
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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John Sladek explains the theme of the darkly comic stories in this wonderful collection: "The aliens here are human. This book contains no giant flying snails or telepathic octopods, no Ganymedean cat-women dressed in silver, no aggressive dugong chiefs roaming the galaxy in their pulsar-powered …
Lunatics of Terra
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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A collection of John Sladek''s hilarious SF satires, including: The Last of the Whaleburgers Great Mysteries Explained!Red Noise Guesting Absent Friends After Flaubert The Brass Monkey White Hat The Island of Dr Circe Answers Breakfast with the Murgatroyds The Next Dwarf An Explanation for the …
Maps
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Maps is the definitive collection of John Sladek''s uncollected work put together by his friend, fellow writer and critic David Langford who also provides an introduction. It includes all the solo stories - science fiction, detective puzzles, mainstream, "non-fact" pieces - as well as poems, …
Wholly Smokes
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Wholly Smokes was the last book completed by one of the most original, brilliant and under-rated American writers of the 20th century. Like so many of John Sladek''s earlier books, this is almost impossible to categorize. It''s the non-fiction or non-fact history of General Snuff and Tobacco, a …
Roderick
Roderick Book 1
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Roderik is a robot and he''s on the run in the USA of the very near future. He''s on the run for having been illicitly conceived and manufactured at the University of Minnetonka. He is also a ''learning machine'' growing up in a complex technological age which threatens to submerge him in a mire of …
Roderick At Random
Roderick Book 2
Av John Sladek
E-bok, 2012
50 kr
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Roderick wasn''t exactly happy, but at least he was holding down a job, even if it was only as a bowl-washer at Danton''s Doggie Dinette. He didn''t know they were out to get him. He didn''t know that in the whole wide world of lunatic game-shows, maniacal religious cults, tentacular business …
Complete Roderick
Av John Sladek
Häftad, 2001
194 kr
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Roderick is a robot and this is his autobiography. Sladek conveys, with great sensitivity and insight the innocence of an artificial intelligence and asks profound questions about mankind's right to manipulate others. It also portrays how a numerological mind might structure a narrative.Inventive, …
John Sladek SF Gateway Omnibus
The Reproductive System, The Muller-Fokker Effect, Tik-Tok
Av John Sladek
Häftad, 2014
313 kr
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From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the razor-sharp wit of John Sladek.An important voice in the New Wave movement, Sladek had stories published in Harlan Ellison's seminal anthology, …
