Book description
A challenging opportunity for a right-stuff person. Fred Jones is an
impoverished writer who goes to America to seek his fortune. He finds
instead a bewildering, soulless shopping mall of a world where
everything and everyone seems to be for sale. In Las Vegas, Jones meets
a serial killer. In New York, he himself i John Sladek (1937 - 2000)
John Sladek was born in Iowa in 1937 but moved to the UK in 1966, where
he became involved with the British New Wave movement, centred on
Michael Moorcock's groundbreaking New Worlds magazine. Sladek began
writing SF with 'The Happy Breed', which appeared in Harlan Ellison's
seminal anthology Dangerous Visions in 1967, and is now recognized as
one of SF's most brilliant satirists. His novels and short story
collections include The Muller Fokker Effect, Roderick and Tik Tok, for
which he won a BSFA Award. He returned to the United States in 1986, and
died there in March 2000.
