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The Steam Driven Boy and other Strangers

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Illustrator
  
Colin Hay

Publication date
  
July 1973

Pages
  
189 pp

Originally published
  
July 1973

Publisher
  
Panther Books

OCLC
  
822409

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
978-0586038017

Author
  
John Sladek

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Genres
  
Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Keep the Giraffe Burning, The Lunatics of Terra, Alien Accounts, Roderick, Roderick at Random

The Steam-Driven Boy and other strangers is a science fiction short story collection by John Sladek, published in 1973.

Contents

  • "The Secret of the Old Custard" (1966) (also known as "The Babe in the Oven")
  • "The Aggressor" (1969)
  • "The Best-Seller" (1966)
  • "Is There Death on Other Planets?" (1966)
  • "The Happy Breed" (1967)
  • "A Report on the Migrations of Educational Materials" (1968)
  • "The Singular Visitor from Not-Yet" (1968)
  • "The Short, Happy Wife of Mansard Eliot" (1971)
  • "The Momster" (1969)
  • "1937 A.D.!" (1967)
  • "Secret Identity" (1970)
  • "The Transcendental Sandwich" (1973)
  • "The Steam-Driven Boy" (1972)

    • The Parodies:

  • "The Purloined Butter...*dg*r *ll*n P**" (1972)
  • "Pemberly's Start-Afresh Calliope or, The New Proteus...H.G. W*lls" (1971)
  • "Ralph 4F...H*g* G*rnsb*ck (Hugogre N. Backs)" (1973)
  • "Engineer to the Gods...R*b*rt H**nl**n (Hitler I.E. Bonner)" (1972)
  • "Broot Force...*s**c *s*m*v (Iclick As-I-Move)" (1972)
  • "Joy Ride...R*y Br*db*ry (Barry DuBray)" (1972)
  • "The Moon Is Sixpence...*rth*r C. Cl*rk* (Carl Truhacker)" (1981)
  • "Solar Shoe-Salesman...Ph*l*p K. D*ck (Chipdip K. Kill)" (1973)
  • "One Damned Thing After Another...C*rdw**n*r Sm*th (A Co-ordainer's Myth)" (1981)
  • "The Sublimation World...J.G. B*ll*rd (J.G. B----)" (1968)

    • References

    The Steam-Driven Boy and other Strangers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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