R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).
John Thomas SladekI started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
John Thomas SladekMost publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
John Thomas SladekAnything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
John Thomas Sladek