Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1986, where he lived until his death in 2000 from pulmonary fibrosis. He was married twice, to Pamela Sladek, which ended in divorce in 1986, and to Sandra Gunter whom he married in 1994. He had a daughter from his first marriage. Skepticism A strict materialist, Sladek subjected the occult and pseudoscience to merciless scrutiny in The New Apocrypha. The book critically examined the claims of dowsing, homeopathy, parapsychology, perpetual motion and Ufology. Bibliography Science fiction novels The Reproductive System Gollancz 1968, Equinox/Avon SF Rediscovery 3 1977, Gollancz Classic SF #8 1986; as Mechasm Ace Special 1969, Pocket 1980 The Müller-Fokker Effect Hutchinson 1970; William Morrow 1971, Panther 1972, Pocket 1973, Carrol & Graf 1990 Roderick Granada 1980; Carroll & Graf 1987 Roderick at Random Granada 1983, Carroll & Graf 1988 Tik-Tok Gollancz 1983, Corgi 1984, DAW 1985 Gollancz 2001; winner of the British Science Fiction Association Best Novel award in 1984; Love Among the Xoids Chris Drumm (chapbook) 1984; Bugs Macmillan UK 1989, Paladin 1991 Blood and Gingerbread Cheap Street (chapbook) 1990; Wholly Smokes Wildside 2003. Science fiction collections The Steam-Driven Boy and other Strangers Panther 1973, Wildside 2005 Keep the Giraffe Burning Panther 1977, Wildside 2004 The Best of John Sladek Pocket 1981 Alien Accounts Granada 1982, Wildside 2005 The Lunatics of Terra Gollancz 1984, Wildside 2005 Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek, edited by David Langford (2002). Omnibus editions The Complete Roderick comprising Roderick and Roderick at Random Gollancz SF Masterworks #45 2001, Overlook Press 2004 The Reproductive System / The Müller-Fokker Effect / Tik-Tok Gollancz 2013 Mystery novels and stories The Castle and the Key (as by Cassandra Knye) Paperback Library 1967 "By an Unknown Hand", the first story featuring the detective Thackeray Phin, which was awarded the first prize in The Times Detective Story Competition in 1972, and published in The Times Anthology of Detective Stories (now included in the collection Maps, edited by David Langford (2002)); Black Aura Jonathan Cape 1974, Panther 1975, a Phin novel; "It Takes Your Breath Away", a Phin short story, originally printed in theatre programmes for a London play, 1974 (now included in Maps); Invisible Green Gollancz 1977, the second Phin novel. Both Phin novels are locked room mysteries. Nonfiction The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Science and Occult Beliefs Stein and Day 1973, Panther 1978 Arachne Rising: The Search for the Thirteenth Sign of the