December 9, 2005(2005-12-09) (aged 77) Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Writer
Nationality
American
Period
1952–2005
Genre
Science fiction, fantasy, mystery
Notable works
Immortality, Inc., Seventh Victim
Website
sheckley.com
Sheckley's first story, "Final Examination", was published in the May 1952 issue of Imagination
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005)[1] was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
RobertSheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted...
This article presents an incomplete list of short stories by RobertSheckley, arranged alphabetically by title. "A Strange but Familiar Country" (2002...
adapted it from the 1959 science fiction novel Immortality, Inc. by RobertSheckley. The film was produced by Morgan Creek and released by Warner Bros...
is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer RobertSheckley. It was first published in 1954 simultaneously by Ballantine Books...
Vernon Dobtcheff as Russian agent Robert Arden as CIA Chief Condorman was inspired by The Game of X by RobertSheckley, a novel published in 1965. The Chicago...
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Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl, and RobertSheckley. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science-fiction series...
"The Prize of Peril" is a science fiction short story by RobertSheckley. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in May 1958...
science fiction novel, with elements of absurdism, by American writer RobertSheckley. The novel concerns the odyssey of Tom Carmody, a New Yorker who wins...
Victim Prime is a novel by RobertSheckley published in 1987. Victim Prime is a novel in which the deadly Hunt is played in a resort in a dystopian 2092...
on the Planet of Bottled Brains, a 1990 novel by Harry Harrison and RobertSheckley "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster", an 1898 sketch story by Australian...
fantasy novel Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming by Roger Zelazny and RobertSheckley includes sharp satire of the traditional fairy tale theme. Prince Charming...
adapting the short story "The Prize of Peril" by the American writer RobertSheckley. Wolfgang Menge and Tom Toelle received the 1971 Prix Italia for best...
international co-production between Italy and France, it is based on RobertSheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim". Taking place in the year 2079 in...
Armstrong, Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler, Soma Blues by RobertSheckley, Vacation in Ibiza by Lawrence Schimel, A Short Life on a Sunny Isle:...
— — — — — 1979 (RobertSheckley's) In a Land of Clear Colours Peter Sinfield (as narrator) Multimedia album, text by RobertSheckley, illustrations by...
Seventh Victim" (1953) is a short story by science fiction author RobertSheckley that depicted a futuristic game in which one player gets to hunt down...
directed by Geoff Murphy and based on the novel Immortality, Inc. by RobertSheckley. There, he met the film's co-star Rene Russo, whom he married later...
"Seventh Victim" is a science fiction short story by American writer RobertSheckley, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in April 1953. In 1957...
Asimov (adapted by George Lefferts) 39. "Skulking Permit" February 15 RobertSheckley (adapted by Ernest Kinoy) 40. "Junkyard" February 22 Clifford D. Simak...
by Kinoy and Lefferts. Included in the series were adaptations of RobertSheckley's "Skulking Permit", Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven", Heinlein's "Universe"...
Robotics" by Harry Harrison and "Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie" by RobertSheckley. Not all of these stories are entirely consistent with the Asimov stories...
Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fredric Brown, John Cage, Philip K. Dick and RobertSheckley. Hemingway also wrote 18 pieces of flash fiction that were included...
French-Yugoslav science fiction movie, directed by Yves Boisset. It is based on RobertSheckley's short story "The Prize of Peril", published in 1958. In the most popular...
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