John Sladek

4 Quotations from John Sladek
paradise planet n. | 1974 | 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 | Space Shoes of the Gods in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov. 56/2 Conventional archaeologists have tried to explain away a remarkable cave drawingβ¦. The drawing can only be a space navigator taking bearings on a wooly [sic] mammoth.
time patrol n. | 1972 | 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 | 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.