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title: "Tik-Tok (Gateway Essentials)"
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# Tik-Tok (Gateway Essentials)

**Brand:** john sladek
**Price:** € 3.66
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- **What is this?** Tik-Tok (Gateway Essentials) by john sladek
- **How much does it cost?** € 3.66 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    The more things change...
  

*by M***G on Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2008*

Tik Tok is two ideas in one slim fast read:1 - Asimov's laws don't work (and never could).2 - People are idiots.Sladek launched his career in the SF New Wave of the sixties, and spent most of his time examining Robots and AI -- in fact in the mid-nineties he was a technical writer for a software firm.  It could easily be argued that he wrote the same novel over and over -- and I should know, I've read all of them.  So what.  In a genre overflowing with techno-drivel and humourless prostulation, Sladek threw pies in the face of Science Fiction's sacred cows.And he threw them HARD.  His parodies of other SF writers ("I Click As I Move" and "Carl Truhacker") were uncomfortably accurate pastiches of form and content.His masterpiece is "Roderick" (both books).  But Tik Tok is still a great read, and he attacks fearlessly on all fronts: the nuclear family, conservatives, liberals, politics, scientists, intellectuals (in Sladek's universe they are not the same), and (most memorably) fast food.Sladek died in 2000, so he never lived the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfelt regime -- but he saw it coming.  Tik Tok is masterful satire because it is so close to the truth, and far more prohetic than anything Asimov ever did.If you've never read Sladek, this is an excellent place to start.

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    Sladek is one of the greatest science fiction writers since Asimov and Heinlein.
  

*by A***V on Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016*

I read Tic-Toc many years ago and thought it was one of the best pieces of satirical sci-fi I had ever read. Now I have my own copy.

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    Kiss my copper-plated butt
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2012*

One of those rare sci-fi novels, Tik-Tok is a perfect satire of robots and humans. Just like Animal Farm satirized farmers and livestock

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