John Sladek
Sladek, John Thomas
December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000 (aged 62)
Birth place: Waverly, Iowa, USA
126 works in English-language magazines
| Date | Page | Type | Title | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1966 | 31 | Short Fiction | The Way to a Man's Heart | Bizarre Mystery Magazine, January 1966 |
| November 1966 | 95 | Short Fiction | The Babe in the Oven | If, November 1966 |
| February 1968 | 62 | Essay | Atrocities of the Love Slaves of Equanimity | New Worlds, February 1968 |
| June 1968 | 103 | Short Fiction | The Man from Not-Yet | Playboy, June 1968 |
| July 1968 | 18 | Review | The Reproductive System | Vector 50 |
| December 1968 | 70 | Short Fiction | A Report on the Migrations of Educational Materials | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968 |
| December 1968 | 63 | Review | The Reproductive System | New Worlds, December 1968 |
| March 1969 | 10 | Short Fiction | The Aggressor | Amazing Stories, March 1969 |
| April 1969 | 20 | Short Fiction | The Monster | Fantastic, April 1969 |
| December 1969 | 28|28.1 | Review | Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past | New Worlds, December 1969 |
| December 1969 | 28 | Essay | Space Hopping with Captain God | New Worlds, December 1969 |
| February 1970 | |34 | Essay | Up from Cash Register | New Worlds, February 1970 |
| March 1970 | |29 | Essay | Voting Games | New Worlds, March 1970 |
| January 1971 | 186 | Short Fiction | The Man Who Devoured Books | If, January-February 1971 |
| August 1971 | 167 | Review | Mechasm | Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971 |
| November 1972 | 56 | Short Fiction | Joy Ride by R*y Br*db*ry | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1972 |
| November 1972 | 5 | Essay | Science Fiction & Pseudo-Science | Vector 62 |
| July 1973 | 28 | Essay | Fossil Astronauts | Foundation, #4 July 1973 |
| November 1973 | 170 | Review | The Müller-Fokker Effect | Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1973 |
| 1974 | Review | The Steam-Driven Boy | Vector 67/68 | |
| November 1974 | 55 | Short Fiction | Space Shoes of the Gods | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1974 |
| December 1974 | 107 | Short Fiction | The Face | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1974 |
| March 1975 | 203 | Review | The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs | Foundation, #7 and 8 March 1975 |
| June 1975 | 30 | Short Fiction | Elephant with Wooden Leg | Galaxy, June 1975 |
| November 1975 | 14 | Short Fiction | Another Look | Other Times, November 1975 - January 1976 |
| March 1977 | 191 | Review | Other Senses, Other Worlds | Foundation, #11 and 12 March 1977 |
| March 1977 | 64 | Review | Wandering Stars | Foundation, #11 and 12 March 1977 |
| 1978 | |9 | Interior Art | Cartoon: Plastitutes | New Worlds, Spring 1978 |
| May 1978 | 90 | Review | Man Plus | Foundation, #13 May 1978 |
| May 1978 | 103 | Review | The Peculiar Exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes | Foundation, #13 May 1978 |
| January 1979 | 97 | Review | Keep the Giraffe Burning | Foundation, #15 January 1979 |
| January 1979 | 99 | Review | The Necronomicon | Foundation, #15 January 1979 |
| September 1979 | [7] | Short Fiction | Robot 'Kiss of Life' Drama | New Worlds, September 1979 |
| October 1980 | 105 | Review | The Mighty Micro | Foundation, October 1980 |
| October 1980 | 102 | Review | The Way the Future Was: A Memoir | Foundation, October 1980 |
| April 1981 | 32 | Review | Roderick | Vector 101 |
| June 1981 | 10 | Review | The Best of John Sladek | Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1981 |
| September 1981 | 60 | Short Fiction | Roderick Goes to School | Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, September 1981 |
| 1982 | 11 | Essay | Writing Places | Focus, #6 |
| March 1982 | 44 | Essay | Great Mysteries Explained! | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 15, 1982 |
| March 1982 | 19 | Short Fiction | Guesting | Interzone, Spring 1982 |
| March 1982 | 31 | Review | Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine | Interzone, Spring 1982 |
| May 1982 | 31 | Review | Roderick, Vol 1 | Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #4, May 1982 |
| June 1982 | 49 | Essay | Kids! Read Books in Your Spare Time! | Foundation, #25 June 1982 |
| June 1982 | 83 | Short Fiction | The Entropy Tango: A Comic Romance | Foundation, #25 June 1982 |
| July 1982 | 14 | Short Fiction | An Explanation for the Disappearance of the Moon | Extro Science Fiction, July-August 1982 |
| July 1982 | 12 | Review | Roderick | Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1982 |
| July 1982 | 165 | Review | Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine, Volume 1 | Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1982 |
| August 1982 | 113 | Review | Roderick | Whispers , August 1982 |
| August 1982 | 21 | Review | Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine, Vol. I | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1982 |
| September 1982 | 35|35.3 | Review | Alien Accounts | Interzone, Autumn 1982 |
| September 1982 | 24 | Review | Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine | Rigel Science Fiction, #5 Fall 1982 |
| December 1982 | 35 | Review | Alien Accounts | Vector 111 |
| February 1983 | 16 | Essay | 4-Part List | Vector 112 |
| February 1983 | 6 | Interview | Sladek at Random | Vector 112 |
| February 1983 | 84 | Review | The Eye of the Heron | Foundation, #27 February 1983 |
| March 1983 | 3 | Short Fiction | Calling All Gumdrops | Interzone, Spring 1983 |
| March 1983 | 29 | Review | Roderick at Random | White Dwarf, March 1983 |
| March 1983 | 20|20.2 | Essay | Science Fiction Comment | The Patchin Review, Number Six March-May 1983 |
| May 1983 | 8 | Review | Roderick at Random | Locus, #268 May 1983 |
| June 1983 | 36 | Review | Roderick at Random | Imagine, June 1983 |
| July 1983 | 73 | Essay | A Reply to L. J. Hurst | Foundation, #28 July 1983 |
| August 1983 | 86 | Short Fiction | Scenes from the Country of the Blind | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1983 |
| October 1983 | 28 | Short Fiction | The Next Dwarf | Last Wave, October 1983 |
| November 1983 | 88 | Review | Roderick | Foundation, #29 November 1983 |
| November 1983 | 88 | Review | Roderick at Random | Foundation, #29 November 1983 |
| November 1983 | 26 | Short Fiction | Ursa Minor | Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983 |
| December 1983 | 8 | Review | Tik-Tok | Locus, #275 December 1983 |
| January 1984 | 16 | Review | Tik-Tok | White Dwarf, January 1984 |
| February 1984 | 44 | Review | Tik-Tok | Vector 118 |
| March 1984 | 35 | Review | Tik-Tok | SF & Fantasy Review, March 1984 |
| April 1984 | 45 | Review | Tik-Tok | Imagine, April 1984 |
| May 1984 | 39 | Short Fiction | Absent Friends | Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1984 |
| July 1984 | 101 | Review | Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature | Foundation, #31 July 1984 |
| September 1984 | 34 | Review | The Lunatics of Terra | Fantasy Review, September 1984 |
| September 1984 | 14 | Review | The Lunatics of Terra | White Dwarf, September 1984 |
| October 1984 | 17 | Review | The Lunatics of Terra | Vector 122 |
| November 1984 | 36 | Review | Love Among the Xoids | Fantasy Review, November 1984 |
| January 1985 | 25 | Review | The Book of Clues | Fantasy Review, January 1985 |
| April 1986 | 43 | Review | Tik-Tok | Science Fiction Chronicle, #79 April 1986 |
| 1988 | 89 | Review | The Forge of God | Foundation, #42 Spring 1988 |
| January 1988 | 182 | Review | Roderick | Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1988 |
| November 1988 | 29 | Short Fiction | Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! | Interzone, November-December 1988 |
| 1989 | 32 | Interview | An Interview with John Sladek | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer 1989 |
| July 1989 | 50 | Review | Bugs | Locus, #342 July 1989 |
| July 1989 | 62|62.2 | Review | Bugs | Interzone, July-August 1989 |
| July 1989 | 42 | Interview | John Sladek | Interzone, July-August 1989 |
| August 1989 | 21 | Review | Bugs | Vector 151 |
| 1990 | 9 | Review | POLY: New Speculative Writing | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer/Fall 1990 |
| 1990 | 8|8.1 | Essay | Sinus Affliction Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer/Fall 1990 |
| 1990 | 8|8.3 | Review | Sugar Rain | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer/Fall 1990 |
| 1990 | 45 | Review | The Müller-Fokker Effect | IAFA Newsletter, Fall 1990 |
| October 1990 | 26 | Review | Roderick at Random | Vector 157 |
| 1991 | 6 | Essay | Faience Section Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1991 |
| 1991 | 7 | Review | Hemingway's Suitcase | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter-Spring-Summer 1991 |
| 1991 | 7 | Review | Only Begotten Daughter | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter-Spring-Summer 1991 |
| 1991 | 7 | Essay | Sans Friction Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter-Spring-Summer 1991 |
| 1991 | 6 | Review | The Difference Engine | Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1991 |
| 1991 | 7 | Review | The Hemingway Hoax | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter-Spring-Summer 1991 |
| 1992 | 7 | Essay | Science Fiction Coroner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer/Fall 1992 |
| December 1992 | 12 | Short Fiction | Reinventing the Wheel | Interzone, December 1992 |
| 1993 | 8 | Essay | My Corner on Science Fiction | Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1993 |
| 1993 | 9 | Review | Rising Sun | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter/Spring/Summer 1993 |
| 1993 | 9 | Essay | Science Affectation Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter/Spring/Summer 1993 |
| 1994 | 6 | Essay | Signs Inflection Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer/Fall 1994 |
| 1995 | 8 | Essay | Skin's Friction Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter/Spring/Summer 1995 |
| March 1995 | 7 | Interview | John T. Sladek: The Steam-Driven Author | The Zone, Spring 1995 |
| 1996 | 8 | Essay | Sense Fission Corner | Tales of the Unanticipated, Spring/Summer/Fall 1996 |
| September 2000 | 35 | Review | The Reproductive System | Vector 213 |
| 2001 | 58|58.1 | Review | Tik-Tok | The Third Alternative, #27 |
| March 2001 | 36 | Review | Tik Tok | Vector 216 |
| January 2002 | 22|22.5 | Review | The Complete Roderick | Science Fiction Chronicle, #220 January 2002 |
| March 2002 | 31 | Review | The Complete Roderick | Vector 222 |
| November 2002 | 31 | Review | Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek | Vector 226 |
| December 2002 | 64 | Review | Maps | 3SF #2, December 2002 |
| March 2003 | 20 | Review | Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek | Star*Line, March-April 2003 |
| June 2003 | 141 | Review | Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek | Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2003 |
| January 2004 | 32 | Review | Wholly Smokes | Vector 233 |
| November 2004 | 29 | Review | The Complete Roderick | Locus, #526 November 2004 |
| December 2005 | Short Fiction | The Great Wall of Mexico | Sci Fiction, December 21, 2005 | |
| May 2006 | 32 | Review | Alien Accounts | Vector 247 |
| May 2006 | 32 | Review | Keep the Giraffe Burning | Vector 247 |
| May 2006 | 32 | Review | The Lunatics of Terra | Vector 247 |
| May 2006 | 32 | Review | The Steam-Driven Boy and Other Strangers | Vector 247 |
| August 2008 | 64 | Essay | Thomas M. Disch: An Appreciation | Locus, #571 August 2008 |
| May 2010 | 86 | Short Fiction | The Real Martian Chronicles | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2010 |
29 English-language books
| Year | Publication | Title |
|---|---|---|
| November 1971 | The Müller-Fokker Effect | The Müller-Fokker Effect |
| December 1974 | New Worlds 7 | Liberation |
| 1977 | Keep the Giraffe Burning | Afterword (Keep the Giraffe Burning) |
| 1978 | New Worlds, Spring 1978 | Cartoon: Plastitutes |
| November 1980 | Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine | Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine |
| 2002 | Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek | Plastitone (Frontispiece) |