John Sladek

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John Sladek

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paradise planet n. 1974 J. Sladek Space Shoes of the Gods in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov. 58/2 All too soon, earthlings would cover the paradise planet with highways and fuming traffic, fill its air with thundering jets carrying earthling tourists.
space navigator n. 1974 J. Sladek Space Shoes of the Gods in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov. 56/2 Conventional archaeologists have tried to explain away a remarkable cave drawing…. The drawing can only be a space navigator taking bearings on a wooly [sic] mammoth.
time patrol n. 1972 J. Sladek Steam-Driven Boy in H. Harrison Nova 2 127 They understood. One by one, the time-patrol put down their glasses and slipped silently from the room. Carl was elected to take the robot back to 1937.
time police n. 1972 J. Sladek Steam-Driven Boy in H. Harrison Nova 2 124 Since as time-police we have the only time-bikes around, the evidence is going to make us look bad.