Spoof astrological book: ''in a brilliant piece of historical detection, building a meticulous sequence of evidence, James Vogh has restored to it's rightful place - lost when Christian Rome purged the old religions - the sign of Arachne''.''he published a sequence of nonfiction texts of considerable interest. The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs (1973) -- all subsequent texts modified under threat of legal action from the Church of Scientology -- scathingly anatomizes the various cults and pseuodo-sciences that exist as a kind of fringe around the sf reader's area... View More...
SF novel.''Fred Jones is an impoverished writer who goes to America to seek his fortune. He finds instead a bewildering, soulless shopping mall of a world where seemingly everything and everyone is for sale. In Las Vegas, Jones meets a serial killer. In New York he himself is arrested for murder. In between, in Minnesota's 'Silicon Prairie', Jones finds himself building a robot for the army. It's confusing enough that the Kafkaesque firm he works for keeps changing its name and image, diversifying from bathtubs to cybernetics - only the punk secretaries and mad managers remain the same. Jon... View More...
Spoof astrological hokum-pocum: great stuff.''he published a sequence of nonfiction texts of considerable interest. The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs (1973) - all subsequent texts modified under threat of legal action from the Church of Scientology - scathingly anatomizes the various cults and pseuodo-sciences that exist as a kind of fringe around the sf reader's areas of interest, from Scientology to Von Daniken. Arachne Rising: The Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac (1977) as James Vogh, The Cosmic Factor (1978) as James Vogh and JUDGEMENT OF JUPITER (1980) as Ric... View More...
Short story collection. Note: the first cover of this paperback shows (as you would expect from the title) an elephant with a burning giraffe in the background: copies were later stripped of this cover and replaced with a different illustration, simply showing a head lying on the ground (or a person buried up to his head in the sand?) . This is the later issue with the head (and no giraffe) on the front cover. View More...
SF novel, sequel to RODERICK (1980). Kerosina published a hardcover seven years later in 1990.,''Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine (1980) and Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine (1983), two texts conceived as a single novel. The novels represent the author's most ambitious work to date, conveying with considerable ingenuity and some pathos its protagonist's Candide-like innocence and its author's oulipo-derived numerological sense of narrative structure. As the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US sf wri... View More...
SF novel, sequel to RODERICK (1980). LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by the author and slipcased. This is no 20.''''Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine'' (1980) and ''Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine'' (1983), two texts conceived as a single novel. The US version, also entitled ''Roderick'' (1982 US), constituted only about two-thirds of the original book; the publisher had intended to make a trilogy out of the 2-vol novel, but the project foundered, and only the single savagely truncated volume appeared. The novel represents the autobiograph... View More...
SF novel, sequel to RODERICK (1980). First published as a paperback original in 1983.''Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine (1980) and Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine (1983), two texts conceived as a single novel. The novels represent the author's most ambitious work to date, conveying with considerable ingenuity and some pathos its protagonist's Candide-like innocence and its author's oulipo-derived numerological sense of narrative structure. As the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US sf writers, Slade... View More...
SF novel, followed by RODERICK AT RANDOM (1990).''Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine (1980) and Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine (1983), two texts conceived as a single novel. The novels represent the author's most ambitious work to date, conveying with considerable ingenuity and some pathos its protagonist's Candide-like innocence and its author's oulipo-derived numerological sense of narrative structure. As the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US sf writers, Sladekhas always addressed the heart of the... View More...
''The Book Of Clues is your chance to use your ingenuity and mastery of logic to prove yourself a home Holmes, a Poirot of the parlour, by solving the 24 cunningly plotted and ingeniously illustrated crime teasers that award-winning author John Sladek has put together for this mind-stretching volume''. View More...
More astrological spoofology.''he published a sequence of nonfiction texts of considerable interest. The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs (1973) - all subsequent texts modified under threat of legal action from the Church of Scientology - scathingly anatomizes the various cults and pseuodo-sciences that exist as a kind of fringe around the sf reader's areas of interest, from Scientology to Von Daniken. Arachne Rising: The Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac (1977) as James Vogh, THE COSMIC FACTOR (1978) as James Vogh and Judgement Of Jupiter (1980) as Richard A. Tilms w... View More...
20-page booklet, a short story by Sladek with alternative plot lines depending on which pages you turn to. Not issued for sale, but as a promotional item for Big Engine's MAPS: THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF JOHN SLADEK (2002) from which this short story is taken. View More...
SF novel.''a man's character is transferred onto computer tape, and the dissemination of several copies of this ''personality'' instigates a series of absurd events, some of them extremely comic in effect, some horrifying, all mounting to a picture of a USA disintegrated morally and physically by its own surrender to technology, the profit motive and the ethical falseness that leads to dehumanization. In its questioning of the nature of narrative events and of fiction itself, the book is a significant example of modern US self-analysis at its highly impressive best. In 1970 the book gained lit... View More...
Note: all later editions and printings were modified under threat of legal action from the Church of Scientology.''during the 1970s, Sladek produced a sequence of nonfiction texts of considerable interest. The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs (1973) - all subsequent texts modified under threat of legal action from the Church of Scientology - scathingly anatomizes the various cults and pseudo-sciences that exist as a kind of fringe around the sf reader's areas of interest, from Scientology to Von Daniken. Further titles, Arachne Rising: The Thirteenth Sign of the Z... View More...
The author's first sf novel. Reprinted in the US (paperback only) as MECHASM (1969). Note: the difference between this proof dustjacket and that issued, is that the price (21/-) states ''appx'' and not ''net'' at the bottom of the inner front flap: the front pnel design is a little different, and there are twelve titles listed on the rear panel, not eleven (one title is taken out and two added).''his first sf novel, THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (1968; vt Mechasm 1969), introduced into his typical small-town-US setting a brilliant maelstrom of sf activity: a self-reproducing technological device g... View More...
The author's first novel. Reprinted in the US (paperback only) as MECHASM (1969).''his first sf novel, THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (1968; vt Mechasm 1969), introduced into his typical small-town-US setting a brilliant maelstrom of sf activity: a self-reproducing technological device goes out of control in passages of allegorical broadness: but everything turns out all right in the end, though not through positive efforts of the inept cast, and a dreamlike Utopia looms on the horizon. Governing the conniptions of the tale is an obsessive discourse upon and dramatization of the metamorphic relation... View More...
The author's first novel. Reprinted in the US (paperback only) as MECHASM (1969).''his first sf novel, THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (1968; vt Mechasm 1969), introduced into his typical small-town-US setting a brilliant maelstrom of sf activity: a self-reproducing technological device goes out of control in passages of allegorical broadness: but everything turns out all right in the end, though not through positive efforts of the inept cast, and a dreamlike Utopia looms on the horizon. Governing the conniptions of the tale is an obsessive discourse upon and dramatization of the metamorphic relation... View More...
SF novel: ''the exploits of a killer robot whose 'asimov circuits' cease to work''.
''TIK-TOK (1983) took its structure from the arbitrary rule-generating principles of oulipo, and follows the career of a robot who, once his ''asimov circuits'' go on the blink, becomes criminally ambitious....the author is the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern US sf writers'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF). View More...
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