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The Steam-Driven Boy and Other Strangers
| Author: | John Sladek |
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Panther Books, Ltd., 1973 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
New Angles on the Universe!
John Sladek is one of the most intelligent and versatile science fiction authors writing today. With sharp insight and wicked humor he opens his readers' minds to new angles on space, time, machines and men. In this brilliantly entertaining collection you will encounter galactic spies, nightmarishly benevolent computers, some extremely peculiar aliens, offbeat time machines -- not forgetting, of course, the Steam-Driven Boy itself...
In addition, John Sladek has included ten masterly parodies of the work of such all-time SF greats as Iclick As-i-move, Hitler I. E. Bonner, Barry DuBray, Carl Truhacker, Chipdip K. Kill and several others. Read them -- and experience a new high in outrage!
Table of Contents:
- 7 - The Secret of the Old Custard - (1966) - short story (variant of The Babe in the Oven)
- 14 - The Aggressor - (1969) - short story
- 22 - The Best-Seller - (1966) - short story
- 35 - Is There Death on Other Planets? - (1966) - short story
- 45 - The Happy Breed - (1967) - short story
- 64 - A Report on the Migrations of Educational Materials - (1968) - short story
- 71 - The Singular Visitor from Not-Yet - (1968) - short story
- 82 - The Short, Happy Wife of Mansard Eliot - (1971) - short story
- 89 - The Momster - (1969) - short story
- 97 - 1937 A.D.! - (1967) - short story
- 107 - Secret Identity - (1970) - short story
- 117 - The Transcendental Sandwich - (1973) - short story
- 124 - The Steam-Driven Boy - (1972) - short story
- 135 - The Purloined Butter...*dg*r *ll*n P** - (1972) - short story
- 138 - Pemberly's Start-Afresh Calliope or, The New Proteus...H.G. W*lls - (1971) - short story (variant of Pemberly's Start-Afresh Calliope or, The New Proteus)
- 147 - Ralph 4F...H*g* G*rnsb*ck (Hugogre N. Backs) - (1973) - short story
- 152 - Engineer to the Gods...R*b*rt H**nl**n (Hitler I.E. Bonner) - (1972) - short story
- 158 - Broot Force...*s**c *s*m*v (Iclick As-I-Move) - (1972) - short story
- 163 - Joy Ride...R*y Br*db*ry (Barry DuBray) - (1972) - short story
- 169 - The Moon Is Sixpence...*rth*r C. Cl*rk* (Carl Truhacker) - short story
- 172 - Solar Shoe-Salesman...Ph*l*p K. D*ck (Chipdip K. Kill) - (1973) - short story
- 180 - One Damned Thing After Another...C*rdw**n*r Sm*th (A Co-ordainer's Myth) - short story
- 186 - The Sublimation World...J.G. B*ll*rd (J.G. B-) - (1968) - short story (variant of The Sublimation World)
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