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The Reproductive System
by
John Sladek
The project: to produce self-replicating mechanisms -- identical cells equipped to repair intracellular breakdowns, convert power from their environments, and create new cells. But, suddenly the nondescript gray boxes are crawling around the lab, feeding voraciously on any metal they see -- and multiplying at an alarming rate. This insightful first novel announced the arri...more
Paperback, 191 pages
Published
December 31st 2001
by Gollancz
(first published 1968)
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More cheap vintage sci-fi paperbacks, found in a shop called Bucket of Blood in Chicago. This one a first American edition, as are a couple of the others. Read almost entirely in one long drive Chicago to Memphis.
Here, more of the manic invention of Sladek's The Steam-Driven Boy, but sustained in novel form. As with his stories, his satire can run towards the excessively zany, with various caricatures jerked mechanistically through bizarre plot devices. Except this is a story about runaway self-...more
Here, more of the manic invention of Sladek's The Steam-Driven Boy, but sustained in novel form. As with his stories, his satire can run towards the excessively zany, with various caricatures jerked mechanistically through bizarre plot devices. Except this is a story about runaway self-...more
Seriously underrated comic science-fiction novel, which satirizes so many things I'm not even going to start listing them. Toto Smilax, the mad genius who was brought up as a dog, is a particularly fine creation.
Fine sci-fi satire, but cluttered with tepid characters and inanity. Felt like a pedestrian version of Catch 22.
aka Mechasm, which is what I have...
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Glimpses of brilliance, especially when the machines take over and start building their own weird society. But overall fairly difuse narrative, that could have come together more strongly if there was more attention paid to particular narrative threads. He tried to jam a lot in to the story, but the overabundance of characters weakened the whole.
Complete non-sense but of the enjoyable kind
aka "Mechasm". As mad a book as Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide" series...
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John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.
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