The Steam-Driven Boy

The Steam-Driven Boy by John Sladek

The Steam-Driven Boy is John Sladek's first collection of brilliant, eccentric, darkly satirical and downright weird science fiction stories. As a bonus it includes his parodies of SF authors, uproariously spoofing Asimov (and the Laws of Robotics), Ballard, Bradbury, Dick, Poe, Cordwainer Smith, and more.

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Science Fiction Short Stories

Release date: 1973

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John Sladek

John Thomas Sladek (1937–2000) was an American science fiction author.

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