The Steam-Driven Boy

✍ Scribed by John Sladek

• Book ID: 100440639
• Publisher: Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 185 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780575110618
• ASIN: B00H6SOK1E

✦ Synopsis

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Kindle Edition, 173 pages
Published 1973
Gollancz eBook (2011)
Original Title: The Steam-Driven Boy, and Other Strangers
John Sladek's first short story collection. Sladek wrote some of the best science fiction stories of the 20th-century and his parodies of famous s/f authors are uproariously "right-on." His talent went under-appreciated except by a few devoted followers, even though his satirical writing was on a par with the early Kurt Vonnegut.
The Steam-Driven Boy contains brilliant, eccentric, darkly satirical and downright weird science fiction stories and parodies of SF authors, uproariously spoofing Asimov (and the Laws of Robotics), Ballard, Bradbury, Dick, Poe, Cordwainer Smith, and more.