John Sladek
John Sladek
John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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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.
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
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Tom and I are never in the same city long enough and both between books, so a further collaboration looks unlikely for some time.
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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.
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I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
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I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
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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 way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
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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.
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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I do write a little SF in my spare time.
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This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.