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not Sladek's strongest work but a highly amusing diversion nonetheless, Cover artist: A. Pedro

John Sladek, o célebre autor de The MullerFokker Effect, foi um dos inovadores da ficçãocientífica, uma das principais figuras do movimento New Wave e da revista New Worlds, e é um dos mais traduzidos.
Bugs é uma das suas obras mais recentes e mais plenas da sua fina ironia: a história de um inglês perdido na América da alta tecnologia.

Fred Jones é um escritor de bolsos vazios que vai para o outro lado do Atlântico na ânsia de os encher.
Em vez do que esperava, encontra um mundo em que tudo está à venda, Em Las Vegas encontra um assassino em Nova Iorque é preso por assassínio no Minnesota dá consigo a construir um robot para o Exército.
Tudo muda sob os seus olhos, desde as banheiras à cibernética, num mundo onde até os restaurantes são desmantelados enquanto ele come, um mundo onde as pessoas ou tentam assassinálo ou lhe dão dinheiro sem ele saber porquê ou para quê, e onde até os robots concedem entrevistas às ocultas.

Bugs é uma obra invulgar, hilariante e assustadora, uma obra que só John Sladek podia conceber, This was one of the oddest books I ever read, even more so than sitelinkThe Man Who Was Thursday.
I'm not even sure if the plot is all over the place, or if this book has no plot at all!

The way I read it, this book to me is above all a satire of modern society.
There were some things that really made me smile, due to how true they are even after all the years since the book has been published.
Though the focus is on the lunacies of american society in particular, I think many of these lunacies can be increasingly found in almost any so called 'modern' country unfortunately.


Don't look for much depth in the characters either, they seem to be more like caricatures than real people, and given the tone of the book I really believe it was intended as such.


I don't know what to think of this book overall, not the story nor the ending, hence I don't have a clue to who I'd recommend it to.
People who'd like a truly unpredictable book perhaps Maybe someday I'll reread it, and come to understand it better or maybe there's nothing more to understand here.
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John Thomas Sladek generally published as John Sladek or John T, Sladek, as well as under the pseudonyms Thom Demijohn, Barry DuBray, Carl Truhacker and others was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.
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