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Robert Sheckley
| Full Name: |
Robert
Sheckley |
| Born: |
July 16, 1928
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Died: |
December 9, 2005
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
SF writer Robert Sheckley died on the 9th December in Poughkeepsie, New York, at the age of 77. One of the field'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.
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