Ron Goulart
Science fiction's great comedian, whose malfunctioning robots and deadpan satire made the future hilarious.
Ron Goulart was a prolific American author and pop-culture historian best known for his comic science fiction. His specialty was technology gone wrong — not through malice but sheer incompetence — populated by eccentric, fast-talking robots and set across his satirical Barnum System of future worlds. The result is SF as screwball comedy, sharp and anarchic.
Goulart wrote at a furious pace under his own name and many pseudonyms, including pulp-hero tie-ins and ghostwriting work, and he chronicled the history of pulp magazines and comics in his nonfiction. Expect deadpan wit, slapstick gadgetry, and biting social parody beneath the laughs. For readers who want their science fiction funny — genuinely, cleverly funny — Goulart is a singular pleasure, a writer who never forgot that the future could be ridiculous.
- For readers who want genuinely funny SF
- Eccentric robots and satirical future worlds
- Deadpan wit and anarchic comedy
