John Thomas Sladek
John Thomas Sladek (* December 15, 1937 in Waverly, Iowa, † March 10, 2000 in Edina, Minnesota) was an American author who wrote science fiction literature in the first place. He was known for his satirical and often surreal novels and short stories.
Life
Sladek initially studied mechanical engineering, but then saddled over to English literature. The study at the University of Minnesota, he broke off in 1959 and worked in a number of different jobs, he traveled through Europe in the 1960s and settled in England. In 1966 his first SF short story The Poets of Millgrove, Iowa (Eng. " The poets of Millgrove, Iowa " ) in Michael Moorcock's British New Wave SF magazine New Worlds; a disturbing satire about a homecoming astronaut who do not feed the small town residents who remained at home after his return from space with heroic stories, but they insulted desolate. In the following years he published there again satirical SF stories. With the New Worlds author Thomas M. Disch he wrote two novels she published under the pseudonyms Community " Cassandra Knye " and " Thom Demijohn ". Thom Demijohns book is a bad detective novel about a money-hungry father. When his daughter Alice is used by the father of her mother for the sole heir and he gets nothing, he staged a kidnapping. Alice is transformed with skin- sounding drugs and new hairstyle in a black and held in Virginia in a former mortuary, now a small brothel, trapped. The Reproductive System ( " The steel Horde " ) from 1968 was Sladeks first SF novel. He describes a loss of control of the project a self -replicating machine. In 1970 he published The Müller- Fokker Effect ( " The Müller- Fokker Effect" ), a novel about a man whose consciousness has been copied to a computer tape, full of swipes at religion, big business, patriotism, and men's magazines. Roderick or the Education of a Young Machine ( " Roderick or the education of a machine " ) and Roderick at Random ( " Roderick II - teaching and years of travel of a machine " ) rely on a commonly used literary device back: The description of the turmoil of the world from the perspective of an innocent being. Only that the innocent is here developed by NASA robot that is raised after the setting of the project by a couple in Nebraska. The 1983 published novel Tik- tok ( " tick-tock " ) won the BSFA Award. A sociopathic robot this time, the authorities responsible for the morale Asimovschaltkreise missing, it manages to be vice presidential candidate of the United States.
Sladek was highly praised by the SF- criticism, but was never commercially successful. After his divorce, and after eighteen years in London, he returned in 1986 in the United States, Minneapolis, back to where he married again in 1994 and worked as a technical writer in the computer industry. Zweiundsechzigjährig he died in 2000 from a chronic, congenital airway disease.