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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.
His first novel, published in London by Gollancz as The Reproductive
System and in the United States as Mechasm, dealt with a project
to build machines that build copies of themselves, a process that
gets out of hand and threatens to destroy humanity. In The Müller-Fokker
Effect, an attempt to preserve human personality on tape likewise
goes awry, giving the author a chance to satirize big business,
big religion, superpatriotism, and men's magazines, among other
things. Roderick and Roderick at Random offer the traditional satirical
approach of looking at the world through the eyes of an innocent,
in this case a robot. Sladek revisited robots from a darker point
of view in Tik-Tok, featuring a sociopathic robot who lacks any
moral "asimov circuits", and Bugs, a wide-ranging satire
in which a hapless technical writer (a job Sladek held for many
years) helps to create a robot who quickly goes insane.