Robert Sheckley (Author of The Status Civilization)

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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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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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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	The Status Civilization 3.98 avg rating — 3,163 ratings — published 1960 — 139 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immortality, Inc. 3.76 avg rating — 2,951 ratings — published 1959 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dimension of Miracles (Dimension of Miracles #1) 3.92 avg rating — 2,665 ratings — published 1968 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mindswap 3.64 avg rating — 1,886 ratings — published 1966 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untouched by Human Hands 4.16 avg rating — 1,614 ratings — published 1953 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley, Alex Abramovich (Editor), Jonathan Lethem (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 1,011 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pilgrimage to Earth 4.02 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1957 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 10th Victim 3.71 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 1965 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizen in Space 4.12 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 1955 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aliens: Alien Harvest 3.39 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dimension of Miracles (2 books)
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袥. 些褢泻芯褌芯胁邪 (Translator),

Igor Varavin (Illustrator)

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Victim (3 books)
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Quotes by Robert Sheckley (?)

“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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Monthly Reads: April 2019 - Humorous and Light Sci-Fi

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

11 votes, 42.3%

Redshirts by John Scalzi

5 votes, 19.2%

Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein

4 votes, 15.4%

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

4 votes, 15.4%

Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley

2 votes, 7.7%

26 total votes

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