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“Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.”

Quote by John Thomas Sladek

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John Thomas Sladek

John Thomas Sladek was an American author renowned for his contributions to science fiction and fantasy. Born on December 15, 1937, and passing away on March 10, 2000, Sladek's writing delved into the realms of technology, philosophy, and the human experience. more

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“See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.”

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“The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.”

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“We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.”

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“There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.”

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