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	Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)
		Robert Sheckley, of Red Hook died December 9, 2005 at Vassar Hospital.
		Sheckley was raised in New Jersey and entered the U.S. Army after high school.
		Sheckley received the Raymond Z. Gallun award for contributions to the genre of science-fiction.
	www.sfwa.org /News/rsheckley.htm (345 words)

	The Robert Sheckley official homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The family of Robert Sheckley is strongly moved by the appreciations and tributes of his readers all over the world (and so many caring ones from Russia and Ukraine).
		Sheckley wrote more than 15 novels and around 400 short stories; the actual total is uncertain since he was so prolific in his heyday, the 1950's and 60's, that magazine editors insisted he publish some stories under pseudonyms to avoid having his byline appear more than once in an issue.
		Born in Brooklyn and raised in Maplewood, N.J., Robert Sheckley joined the Army in 1946 after graduating from high school, and served in Korea.
	www.sheckley.com (769 words)

	Robert Sheckley interview at the 1st International Week of Science Fiction
		Robert Sheckley: I have always felt that that especially with stories like that I had great luck in that the idea would suddenly come to me fully born.
		Robert Sheckley is the renowned US author of a score of novels from 1958, at least two of which have been turned into films (The 10th Victim and Freejack) and a number of his many his short stories have been collected into over a dozen volumes.
		However it is not known whether Sheckley initially drafted this during the event but he did have the opportunity as he retreated from the Sun to his hotel room for a couple of hours each day.
	www.concatenation.org /interviews/sheckley.html (2453 words)

	Sheckley
		Sheckley’s first novel was published in 1958 by Avalon, one of the short-lived sf book publishers of the Fifties, under the title of Immortality Delivered, but has since been known as Immortality Inc., the name under which it appears in the present volume.
		Sheckley’s first effort for Dell was The Game of X (1965), a spy spoof, but this was early in the James Bond era, and everyone was doing spy spoofs.
		To understand Sheckley’s career, we have to realize that in the last sixty years or so, the sf community’s idea of what size a work should be has grown like a giant chicken heart.
	www.maroney.org /hlavaty/documents/Sheckley.html (2088 words)

	Obituary: Robert Sheckley \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		In a just world, Sheckley would be recognised as one of the most important American short story writers of the 20th century but, as anyone who has read him knows, while justice might in theory be available, it is not for everyone - and then only with a catch.
		One of Sheckley's best but least-known novels, The Man in the Water (1961), a Hemingwayesque saga of two men battling it out on a becalmed yacht, was also filmed.
		A restless man, Sheckley took to travelling from the mid-1960s, living in Mexico, Ibiza, London and Paris before returning to the US in 1980, when, for a couple of years, he was fiction editor of Omni magazine.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1670960,00.html (747 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette In Memory Of Robert Sheckley
		Robert Sheckley, a writer of science fiction whose disarmingly playful stories pack a nihilistic subtext, died yesterday in Poughkeepsie.
		Sheckley was best known for his short stories.
		Sheckley mocked the self-delusions that lead to dreams in the first place.
	www.gvny.com /columns/schiff/sheckley_obit.html (707 words)

	Delos SF: Robert Sheckley
		Sheckley: Yes, I have considered it from time to time, but have desisted due to the sad condition of the sf short story market, plus a feeling that I might as well leave sleeping dogs lie.
		Sheckley: It is to the convenience of us all, my son, for if nothing happened, God would be very lonely up there with his Conjecture.
		Sheckley: My theory of music is that Debussy should have lived to the age of 112 and written ten times as much as he did.
	www.delos.fantascienza.com /ie/sheckley.html (1370 words)

	Robert Sheckley
		SF writer Robert Sheckley died on the 9th December in Poughkeepsie, New York, at the age of 77.
		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.
		Sheckley was hospitalized earlier this year in Ukraine, then recovered sufficiently to return to the US, though he was unable to attend the World SF Convention in Glasgow where he'd been scheduled Guest of Honor.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /s/robert-sheckley (403 words)

	Rebels of Mars: Robert Sheckley, R.I.P.
		Rebels of Mars: Robert Sheckley, R.I.P. Rebels of Mars
		Robert Sheckley, R.I.P. Robert Sheckley, who said Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of his favorite writers, died December 9, 2005 after suffering a stroke.
		Robert Sheckley joined the Army in 1946 after graduating from high school, and served in Korea.
	rebelsofmars.blogs.com /rebels_of_mars/2005/12/robert_sheckley.html (692 words)

	Article: Irony and Misunderstanding in the Stories of Robert Sheckley, by David Horwich
		One such author is Robert Sheckley, most of whose work is available only on the shelves of used bookstores.
		Sheckley was a prolific SF short story writer in the 1950s; since then he has focused mainly on novels.
		Sheckley is known for his sharp, satirical style, and his humor is often tinged with ironic bitterness at human folly.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2000/20000925/Article_Sheckley_Horwich.shtml (1834 words)

	Robert Sheckley - SCIFIPEDIA
		Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928- December 9, 2005) is known as one of the funniest science fiction writers ever.
		Sheckley's first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958), originally published as Immortality Delivered), set the pattern for Sheckley's fiction, with an Everyman protagonist thrust into a world he never made, complete with hostile or at least wisecracking machinery.
		He returned in 1975 with Options, a differently coherent work with much of the usual Sheckley wit, but also a postmodernist refusal to pretend that the work is anything but a story being made up by an author.
	scifipedia.scifi.com /index.php/Robert_Sheckley (377 words)

	Making Light: Robert Sheckley (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Robert Sheckley was one of the very first sf writers I ever read, back in the 1960s.
		Robert Sheckley's humor and imagination and mastery of the short story are what brought me to science fiction.
		Sheckley is watching Philip Klass/William Tenn convulsed with laughter as the two of them sat in the corner of the hotel lobby at a ParaCon.
	nielsenhayden.com.cob-web.org:8888 /makinglight/archives/007078.html (3519 words)

	Robert Sheckley \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Sheckley: In those tender years of my writing career, I was still trying to prove to myself that I was indeed a writer.
		Sheckley: It has long been my contention that being an absurdist does not imply or entail being an expert on absurdism, absurdism in SF, or any other kind of absurdism.
		Sheckley: If absurdism indeed partakes of the absurd, there is no reason why it cannot be approached accurately in a visual medium.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw10618.html (1971 words)

	Robert Sheckley novel reviews
		At this point Sheckley seems to abandon some of the weird and experimental elements that appear in most of his previous novels.
		If Sheckley was writing "Dimension of Miracles" today he would no doubt be encouraged to pad it out to at least double its 140(ish) page length.
		Sheckley considers the weird and wonderful cities that science fiction writers have dreamt up, but the text plays second fiddle to the pictures.
	members.tripod.com /~sheckley/novels2.htm (955 words)

	Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » RIP Robert Sheckley
		Far from a mere wiseacre (although he was that and much more), Sheckley was one of the first authors to fuse satire with science fiction.
		Failing that, the Robert Sheckley website has preserved a television appearance which was recorded in Romania last year.
		Sheckley told me he had called King awkwardly, to ask why Running Man was so close toSheck’s story, I believe, “The Prize of Peri”.
	www.edrants.com /?p=2440 (747 words)

	Locus Online: Robert Sheckley interview excerpts
		Robert Sheckley, born in 1928, grew up in New Jersey and served in Korea before selling his first story in 1951.
		A master of satire and irony whose work has been called "galactic humor," Sheckley was one of the first to portray gadgets that think for humans, such as intelligent refrigerators.
		Sheckley has also written for TV and film, including 15 episodes in 1953 of the Captain Video TV series.
	www.locusmag.com /2003/Issue09/Sheckley.html (1240 words)

	Robert Sheckley to be Author Emeritus - SFWA News
		Robert Sheckley to be Author Emeritus - SFWA News
		I'm very pleased to tell you that the SFWA® Board of Directors has selected Robert Sheckley to be this year's Author Emeritus.
		Bob Sheckley and his wife will be joining SFWAns at our Nebula Awards® Banquet in Los Angeles on April 28.
	www.sfwa.org /news/sheckley.htm (166 words)

	Robert Sheckley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American Jewish author.
		Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
		Robert Sheckley had vowed he would write fiction until slumped dead over the typewriter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Sheckley (1013 words)

	Robert Sheckley - A STORY MASTER WITH FEW (IF ANY) EQUALS BUT MANY IMITATORS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I just heard from www.fantasticliterature.com the sad news that Robert Sheckley died on 9th December in Poughkeepsie, New York, at the age of 77.
		Robert Sheckley passed away on December 9, 2005 in Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY Right now, condolences from all the world are flooding the guestbook on his homepage, Sheckley.com Funeral arrangement will provided soon.
		Sheckley contributed to these shows (The series was a sequel to 'Dimension X') between April, 1955 and January, 1988 and one of his stories written AKA Finn O'Donavon is on the MP3.
	www.stuarthamilton.f9.co.uk /paradox/sheckley/index.htm (682 words)

	Amazon.com: Dimensions of Sheckley : The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley: Books: Robert Sheckley,Sharon L. Sbarsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley, edited by Sharon L. Sbarsky, gathers five of the author's novels published over three decades in a tome certain to please devotees and whet the appetites of newcomers to his distinctive and endlessly inventive brand of sci-fi-cum-satire.
		Sheckley is an entertaining writer whose stories stretch the imagination while making some potent points about our political landscapes and social conventions.
		Dimensions Of Sheckley is a compilation of selected novels by master science fiction author Robert Sheckley, and include several of his works which had fallen out of print.
	amazon.com /Dimensions-Sheckley-Selected-Novels-Robert/dp/1886778299 (1215 words)

	Robert Sheckley
		It would crash down, were it not for the fact that there is no gravity in Sheckley's space.
		Robert Sheckley came to prominence in the 1950's.
		This reservation applies in particular to Sheckley, whose 'novels' are generally episodic, much as if a few short stories have been tacked together.
	www.solaris-books.co.uk /aldiss/html/sheckley.htm (1036 words)

	Robert Sheckley
		Until Robert Sheckley is as valued in America as Mark Twain, America will remain an undeveloped country.
		Presently, as one dubious measure of success, Robert Sheckley receives 12,100 Google hits while Twain receives 676,892 or one in 56 Twain-cognizant adults are cognizant of Sheckley (648,000 as Twain, 18,600 as Samuel Clemens, 292 as Samual Clemens).
		As further demonstration that these statistics of mine are all screwy, consider that half of Sheckley's hits are in a foreign language like Russian, Polish, Korean or Scottish while only 4.3% of Twain's are, which would adjust to 1 in 93 Twain-cognizant American adults.
	www.geocities.com /storeez1/RobertSheckley.html (939 words)

	Amazon.de: The Alternative Detective: English Books: Robert Sheckley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In his first mystery in decades, SF author Sheckley (The Game of X) offers a zany romp featuring Hob Draconian, a not-so-ex-hippie and proprietor of the Alternative Detective Agency in New Jersey.
		Every action of Hob's brings up the past, and while Sheckley's dialogue can be terminally wry, the narrative's playfulness is infectious and Hob is an undeniably interesting fellow to follow.
		Sheckley's series is witty, urbane, and filled with the kind of small touches only an experienced writer can deliver.
	www.amazon.de /Alternative-Detective-Robert-Sheckley/dp/0312853815 (448 words)

	The ED SF Project: "Bad Medicine" by Robert Sheckley: An Appreciation by Jason Boog
		In the science fiction pantheon, Sheckley's stories strike an odd balance between Philip K. Dick's paranoia and Ray Bradbury's sermonizing.
		Sheckley died last December, and was memorialized in quiet tributes.
		Still, Sheckley's stories beg to be re-read in this age of reality television and digital consumers, as John Kessel pointed out here.
	edsfproject.blogspot.com /2006/01/bad-medicine-by-robert-sheckley.html (632 words)

	Sci-Fi Writer Robert Sheckley on Artificial Respiration in Ukrainian Hospital - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Famous U.S. science-fiction writer Robert Sheckley is still in a Kiev hospital suffering respiratory failure after a week of treatment, the Ekho Moskvy Web site reported Thursday.
		Sheckley is now in one of Kiev’s private medical institutions, a clinic called Boris.
		Robert Sheckley is a star of the Golden Age of science fiction and one of the major creators of the genre itself.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/05/05/sheckleyhospital.shtml (591 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Victim Prime / Robert Sheckley
		And usually, when a veteran writer revisits a popular story from decades past, one is cynically tempted to think of flagging fortunes and a desperate stab at reviving past glories.
		Much less whimsical than The 10th Victim (and a completely stand-alone story, by the way), Victim Prime tells an often bitterly funny story about a simple young man who just wants to make his way in the world and can't be overly bothered by the fact that civilization has pretty much collapsed.
		Sheckley's satire always had a knack for making you cringe while cracking up, because you can tell that it really wouldn't take too slippery a slope for us to end up in one of his funhouse worlds.
	www.sfreviews.net /victimprime.html (642 words)

	Dimension Of Sheckley - A tribute to the science fiction author Robert Sheckley
		Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) was a science fiction writer whose humourous short stories first appeared in 1951.
		Robert Sheckley died on Friday the 9th of December.
		Despite the welcome release of "Dimensions of Sheckley", much of his early work remains out of print.
	members.tripod.com /~sheckley (229 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The 10th Victim / Robert Sheckley
		The 10th Victim is one of the funniest, most trenchant, and least politically correct SF novels I've read this side of Robert Heinlein.
		I'm puzzled that it hasn't managed to find a way to stay in print over the years, particularly in light of that relevance and the recycling of its premise by so many subsequent books and movies.
		Indeed I think it's an indicator of the sad state of current SF publishing that pretty much everything of Sheckley's is currently out of print and obscure.
	www.sfreviews.net /10thvictim.html (536 words)

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