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"Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide."
— John Thomas Sladek
— John Thomas Sladek
"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
— John Thomas Sladek
— John Thomas Sladek
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"As the semantic engineer, your job is naming the parts and tightening nuts and bolts. I suggest you get back to your office and do that - right now!"
— John Thomas Sladek (The Steam-driven Boy)
— John Thomas Sladek (The Steam-driven Boy)
"R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured). "
— John Thomas Sladek
— John Thomas Sladek
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Who is "Chipdip K. Kill"?
a. A minor character in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", who is once seen chatting with Kilgore Trout at a science-fiction convention
b. The narrator of "Kill", an unpublished semi-autobiographical novel by Philip K. Dick, left incomplete at the time of Dick's death
c. The fictitious author of Dick parody "Solar Shoe-Salesman", actually by John Sladek
d. The nom de plume used by the editor of "Dickhead", a short-lived 70s fanzine for Dick aficionados
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a. A minor character in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", who is once seen chatting with Kilgore Trout at a science-fiction convention
b. The narrator of "Kill", an unpublished semi-autobiographical novel by Philip K. Dick, left incomplete at the time of Dick's death
c. The fictitious author of Dick parody "Solar Shoe-Salesman", actually by John Sladek
d. The nom de plume used by the editor of "Dickhead", a short-lived 70s fanzine for Dick aficionados
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