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From: rick@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Memory recording stories (actually, John Sladek)
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 14:33:13 EST
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From: Rick Floyd  <rick>

>From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke)
...
>	Does anyone
>	know if it's still around, or if Sladek wrote anything else besides
>	this and /The Best of John Sladek/ ??]
>

John Sladek also wrote "The Reproductive System" (originally "Mechasm").
An improbable and wildly bizarre novel about machine intelligence (in the
form of little self-reproducing boxes) gone wild.  Very heavy on satire.
The sequence about the little boxes gutting Las Vegas and the discussion
of possible military retaliation is particularly biting. I would
recommend it highly if it weren't out of print.

The author blurb in the '74 edition of "The Reproductive System" states:

	"John T. Sladek was born in Iowa in 1937. He studied mechanical
	 engineering, then English literature and composition at the
	 University of Minnesota; he says he "writes passable technical
	 manuals" and that his first published work was "The Baker
	 Forklift Truck".
	 
	"Sladek has contributed to Playboy, Ambit, Fantasy and Science
	 Fiction, Amazing Stories, Galaxy and New Worlds, and he is the
	 Editor of Ronald Reagan, The Magazine of Poetry. "The
	 Reproductive System" is his first novel."

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of "The Baker Forklift Truck"?

	rick floyd
	rick@rochester.ARPA
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