I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
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 Thomas 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.
- John Thomas Sladek
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… - John Thomas Sladek
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…
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. - John Thomas Sladek
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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 i… - John Thomas Sladek
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 i…
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 j… - John Thomas Sladek
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 j…
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. - John Thomas Sladek
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. - John Thomas Sladek
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
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 … - John Thomas 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 …
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. - John Thomas Sladek
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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