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* (Tears) The Muller-Fokker Effect by John SladekJames Nicoll
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 by: James Nicoll - Sun, 4 Jun 2023 13:11 UTC

The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek

A hapless American salaryman's inadvertent decapitation sets off a tour
of the zany America of yesterday's tomorrow.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/rise-again
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 by: Quadibloc - Sun, 4 Jun 2023 23:57 UTC

On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:12:02 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
> The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek
>
> A hapless American salaryman's inadvertent decapitation sets off a tour
> of the zany America of yesterday's tomorrow.
>
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/rise-again

I found it interesting that the review pointed out so many things in
the novel as being "thinly disguised" versions of persons or
publications in the real world, but what with arsenic and cyanide being
both well-known poisons, it passed over in silence the thinnest of the
thin disguises... National Arsenamid for American Cyanimid.

John Savard

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Subject: Re: (Tears) The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek
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 by: Quadibloc - Mon, 5 Jun 2023 06:27 UTC

On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:12:02 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
> > The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek
> >
> > A hapless American salaryman's inadvertent decapitation sets off a tour
> > of the zany America of yesterday's tomorrow.
> >
> > https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/rise-again
> I found it interesting that the review pointed out so many things in
> the novel as being "thinly disguised" versions of persons or
> publications in the real world, but what with arsenic and cyanide being
> both well-known poisons, it passed over in silence the thinnest of the
> thin disguises... National Arsenamid for American Cyanimid.
>
> John Savard

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 by: Quadibloc - Mon, 5 Jun 2023 06:29 UTC

On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:12:02 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
> > The Muller-Fokker Effect by John Sladek
> >
> > A hapless American salaryman's inadvertent decapitation sets off a tour
> > of the zany America of yesterday's tomorrow.
> >
> > https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/rise-again

> I found it interesting that the review pointed out so many things in
> the novel as being "thinly disguised" versions of persons or
> publications in the real world, but what with arsenic and cyanide being
> both well-known poisons, it passed over in silence the thinnest of the
> thin disguises... National Arsenamid for American Cyanimid.

Also, while I was not prepared either to conduct in-depth research on
the career of John Sladek, I believe I have found an explanation for the
ten-year gap in his SF output. Simply by visiting the Wikipedia page on
this author. That seemed to be less than onerous as a research programme.

From which I also learned that he was the author of a nonfiction book
I had read: _The New Apocrypha_.

In that ten-year gap, it seems that in order to pay the rent, he was writing
mystery novels instead.

John Savard

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