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Robert Sheckley


Born
in New York City, The United States
July 16, 1928

Died
December 09, 2005

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


One of science fiction's great humorists, Sheckley was a prolific short story writer beginning in 1952 with titles including "Specialist", "Pilgrimage to Earth", "Warm", "The Prize of Peril", and "Seventh Victim", collected in volumes from Untouched by Human Hands (1954) to Is That What People Do? (1984) and a five-volume set of Collected Stories (1991). His first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958), was followed by The Status Civilization (1960), Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Mindswap (1966), and several others. Sheckley served as fiction editor for Omni magazine from January 1980 through September 1981, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 57,643 ratings · 4,652 reviews · 1,038 distinct works � Similar authors
The Status Civilization
3.98 avg rating — 3,139 ratings — published 1960 — 139 editions
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Immortality, Inc.
3.76 avg rating — 2,941 ratings — published 1959 — 61 editions
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Dimension of Miracles (Dime...
3.92 avg rating — 2,647 ratings — published 1968
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Mindswap
3.64 avg rating — 1,876 ratings — published 1966 — 72 editions
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Untouched by Human Hands
4.16 avg rating — 1,592 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions
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Pilgrimage to Earth
4.02 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1957 — 28 editions
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The 10th Victim
3.71 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1965 — 35 editions
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Citizen in Space
4.13 avg rating — 671 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions
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Aliens: Alien Harvest
3.39 avg rating — 781 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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“Sanity is a matter of consensus.”
― Robert Sheckley, Options
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“- "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions.”
― Robert Sheckley, Options
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“Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor. ”
― Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles
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