The Lunatics of Terra
Author: | John Sladek |
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Gollancz, 1984 |
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Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
John Sladek's hilarious SF satires may show a world riddled with shambolic flaws, but this (he pointed out) is actually the good news: "My own small ray of hope concerns human frailty. All conspiracies, no matter how monstrous, are ultimately the work of mere imperfect people, whose irresolution or bad judgement or even bad conscience works against the system. They get bunions, their cars break down, their children run away -and all this grit gets into the smooth-running gears of their world domination plans. I hope."
Table of Contents:
- The Last of the Whaleburgers
- Great Mysteries Explained!
- Red Noise
- Guesting
- Absent Friends
- After Flaubert
- The Brass Monkey
- White Hat
- The Island of Dr Circe
- Answers
- Breakfast with the Murgatroyds
- The Next Dwarf
- An Explanation for the Disappearance of the Moon
- How to Make Major Scientific Discoveries at Home in Your Spare Time
- The Kindly Ones
- Fables
- Ursa Minor
- Calling All Gumdrops!
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