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Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) was born in New York City and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. He joined the army shortly after high school and served in Korea from 1946 to 1948. Returning to New York, Sheckley completed a BA degree at New York University and later took a job in an aircraft factory, leaving as soon as he was able to support himself by selling short stories.
Robert Sheckley (nacido en 1928) es un norteamericano peripatético que ha vivido a menudo en Europa. Al igual que Ray Bradbury y Cordwainer Smith, es uno de esos escritores a quienes una novela no llega a representar acabadamente.
Robert Sheckley can.” Sheckley was also well-respected by Kingsley Amis who, in his book New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction , included Sheckley in a list with Frederik Pohl and Arthur C. Clarke, and said their volumes should “be reviewed as general fiction, not tucked away, as one writer has put it, in something called ‘Spaceman’s Realm’ between the kiddy section and dog ...
Robert Sheckley has written several hundred stories and sixty-five books to date. His best known novels in the science fiction field are Immortality, Inc. (produced as the movie Freejack, starring Mick Jagger and René Russo), Mindswap, and Dimension of Miracles. Mr. Sheckley also worked on the computer game Netrunner.
Robert Sheckley: An Interview (1981) by Darrell Schweitzer; Interview mit Robert Sheckley [German] (1984) by Hendrik P. Linckens; Entretien avec Robert Sheckley [French] (1985) by Philippe Curval; Robert Sheckley: A Humorist Looks at Contemporary Goals (1987) by N. Lee Wood; Dreaming Boy (1992) by Stan Nicholls
1 de ene. de 2001 · Robert Sheckley may have been an established sci-fi/fantasy/humor author, but his undertaking of an Alien novel was just awful. The characters mostly spoke in a stilted dialect you would expect from a novel written in 1904, or at least the 50s or 60s (when Sheckley made a name for himself) and not the more modern way futuristic people in a book published in 1994 should have spoken.
13 de may. de 2014 · Robert Sheckley was one of the funniest writers in the history of science fiction. He did screwball comedy, broad satire, and farce. He could also be deadly serious, but he was always entertaining and always had something pointed to say about our world using the skewed versions of reality he created in his fiction.
