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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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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 — 3,042 ratings — published 1960 — 132 editions
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Immortality, Inc.

3.76 avg rating — 2,887 ratings — published 1959 — 59 editions
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Dimension of Miracles (Dime...

3.92 avg rating — 2,560 ratings — published 1968 — 53 editions
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Mindswap

3.64 avg rating — 1,838 ratings — published 1966 — 71 editions
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Untouched by Human Hands

4.16 avg rating — 1,535 ratings — published 1953 — 49 editions
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Store of the Worlds: The St...

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Pilgrimage to Earth

4.03 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 1957 — 29 editions
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The 10th Victim

3.71 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 1965 — 35 editions
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Citizen in Space

4.12 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 1955 — 3 editions
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Aliens: Alien Harvest

3.41 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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Quotes by Robert Sheckley  (?)
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“Sanity is a matter of consensus.”
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“- "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions.”
Robert Sheckley, Options

“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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