Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 July 1928
CountryUnited States of America
science healthy fiction
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
science fiction would-be
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
science fiction critics
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
american-author anywhere crazy help short since stories
There's no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week.
american-author follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.
american-author field
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
american-author interfere knew selling
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.
american-author cyber deal gibson great punk somehow speaks william work
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
american-author
I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.
acceptance american-author extent knows perhaps pleased surprised work
I am very pleased and perhaps a little surprised also because I don't think one knows the extent of one's own work or the acceptance of it.
years oregon ibiza
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
blessing world curse
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.
stuff
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
important british audience
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.