Talk:John Sladek

Short Stories Missing
Many, many short stories missing from this page. The external reference sited ([]) has them all but I suspect that there are too many for listing them to be practical? Someone else should make the call, I'm a coward. ShadowFirebird 13:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Judgement of Jupiter
I am reliably informed that John Sladek wrote Judgement of Jupiter (1980), a cosmobiological prediction of the devastation of the decade ahead, under the sobriquet of 'Richard A. Tilms.'

This sort of thing seriously undermines the efforts of skeptics to debunk pseudoscience, and Sladek should be censured for it.


 * The above comment by 212.100.250.218 refers to something I've seen asserted in many online articles about Sladek (easily found by searching for "Judgment of Jupiter Sladek"), but I can't really tell if they count as sources - they all just repeat the claim as if it's something everyone knew, so it could easily be the kind of speculation that becomes an urban legend. I guess one could add a statement with citations about how some critics believed Tilms was Sladek. &#8592;Hob 02:27, 18 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Ah never mind, I missed that someone had already added a citation to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, which I'm fine with as a source (although I'm unclear on why the citation is exclusively to the print edition, with no link to the online version which contains the same info). &#8592;Hob 19:12, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Why the move?
Why was the article moved from "John Sladek" to "John Thomas Sladek"? His byline almost everywhere was the former, and it is extremely improbable for anybody to look for him under the latter. If nobody objects, I intend to revert to the previous name (leaving "John Thomas Sladek" as a redirect). Goochelaar (talk) 16:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks like no one got around to fixing this, so I've finally moved it back to "John Sladek" - I think that's clearly correct per WP:MIDDLENAME. The editor who did the earlier move seems to have done a lot of renames like that, which I'm guessing were just a misunderstanding of policy. &#8592;Hob 02:22, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of SF citation
The citation of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction was referencing the 2nd print edition, which was published in 1993, but somewhat confusingly listed a later 1995 date - which as far as I can tell is the date of an updated CD-ROM version, sort of a second-and-a-half edition. In any case, both of those are now out of print and have been superseded by the online-only third edition, which includes all of the same material cited, so I'll update the references to that. &#8592;Hob 19:25, 19 March 2017 (UTC)