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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is particularly known for writing stories with a moral, and for the comical elements in his stories.
Sheckley's short story first published in Galaxy Science Fiction, Seventh Victim, was filmed as *LA DECIMA VITTIMA* (The 10th Victim). He later wrote a novelization of the film. It has also been claimed that the college campus game, Assassin, was inspired by this same short story.
The movie *FREEJACK* is loosely based on Sheckley's novel, Immortality Inc.
In the 1990s, Sheckley wrote novels set against the *ALIENS* and *STAR TREK DS9* backgrounds, as well as a novelization of a *BABYLON 5* film.
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By Robert Sheckley
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Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the
black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman,
Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his nonetoo-
distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s
cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins.
Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our
mid-century technotopia while it was still under construction.
His new worlds, alternate universes, and future dystopias have
only become more present with the passing years, even as his
career, played out both in the pulp magazines and in front-line
venues like Playboy and Omni, is a glimpse of a time when
“science fiction writer” could be a kind of hipster credential.
Mordant, absurdist, and deadpan, the best of Sheckley’s dissident
farces represent science fiction’s high-water mark as an
allegorical clearinghouse for twenty-century angst. |
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By Robert Sheckley
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THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A NEW ARRIVAL ON OMEGA AVERAGED THREE EARTH YEARS Will Barrent could choose--exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth! Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth - an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and non-conformist. Now he was serving his sentence on Omega - a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard-ships from which there was no escape. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization. The Status Civilization first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. His stories first appeared in science fiction magazines of the 1950s.His quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. |
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By Robert Sheckley
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Warrior Race is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Sheckley is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Robert Sheckley then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. |
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By Robert Sheckley
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The space freighter Queen Dierdre was a great, squat, pockmarked vessel of the Earth-Mars run and she never gave anyone a bit of trouble. That should have been sufficient warning to Mr. Watkins, her engineer. Watkins was fond of saying that there are two kinds of equipment - the kind that fails bit by bit, and the kind that fails all at once. Compared with a spaceship in distress, going to hell in a handbasket is roomy and slow! |
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By Robert Sheckley
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Robert Sheckley was one of the most interesting science fiction authors of the 50’s and 60’s. While he wrote in the same language of aliens and spaceships as many of his contemporaries, he used his works as a mirror in which he showed us a reflection of society with all its flaws and foibles. Best known for his novels such a The 10th Victim, Immortality, Inc., and The Status Civilization, he also was a fine writer of short stories. Resurrected Press has collected some of the best of these from the 50’s including "Warrior Race", "The Leech", "Watchbird", "Warm", "Diplomatic Immunity", "The Hour of Battle", "Besides Still Waters", "Keep Your Shape", "One Man’s Poison", 'Ask a Foolish Question", "Cost of Living", "Death Wish Forever". |
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By Robert Sheckley
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This volume contains the major short science fiction of Robert Sheckley. |
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By Robert Sheckley
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The Leech is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Sheckley is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Robert Sheckley then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. |
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By Robert Sheckley
Released: 2010-06-01
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Beside Still Water
Cost of Living
Death Wish
Forever
The Hour of Battle
The Leech
The Status Civilization
Warm
Warrior Race
Watchbird |
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By Robert Sheckley
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First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation FREEJACK in 1992, Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of Tomorrow now arrives in ebook format for the 21st century.
Thomas Blaine awoke in a white bed in a white room, and heard someone say, "He's alive now." Then they asked him his name, age and marital status. Yes, that seemed normal enough---but what was this talk about "death trauma"?
Thus was Thomas Blaine introduced to the year 2110, where science had discovered the technique of transferring a man's consciousness from one body to another. Where a man's mind could be snatched from the past, when his body was at the point of death, and brought forward into a "host body" in this fantastic future world.
But that was only a small part of it. For the future had proved the reality of life after death, and discovered worlds beyond or simultaneous with our own---worlds where, through scientific techniques, a man could live again, in another body, when he died here. And in the process, the reality of ghosts, poltergeists, and zombies was also established.
What did it all mean? How had this discovery of what they called the "hereafter" shaped the world of 2110?
Thomas Blaine found himself living in a future where the discoveries and techniques imagined by people of his time, while having come about, were completely overwhelmed by discoveries no one had ever dreamed of. |
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By Robert Sheckley
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Released: 2010-05-31
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Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.
Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
Included in this collection are nine of some of his best stories written in the 1950s. Includes the following stories: MEETING OF THE MINDS, THE LEECH, UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS, WARRIOR RACE, SHAPE, WRITING CLASS, SEVENTH VICTIM, COST OF LIVING, and THE LAST WEAPON
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