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381:, and collaborations with other writers. He was best known for his several hundred short stories, which he published in book form as well as individually. Typical Sheckley stories include "Bad Medicine" (in which a man is mistakenly treated by a psychotherapy machine intended for Martians), "Protection" (whose protagonist is warned of deadly danger unless he avoids the common activity of "lesnerizing", a word whose meaning is not explained), and "The Accountant" (in which a family of wizards learns that their son has been taken from them by a more sinister trade—accountancy). In many stories Sheckley speculates about alternative (and usually sinister) social orders, of which a good example is the story " 1787: 1811: 458: 701: 1830: 159: 343:. His condition was very serious for a week, but he appeared to be slowly recovering. Sheckley's official website ran a fundraising campaign to help cover his treatment and his return to the United States. He settled in Red Hook, in northern Dutchess County, New York, to be near his daughters Anya and Alisa. On November 20 he had surgery for a 742: 493:. A novelization of the film, also written by Sheckley, was published in 1966. The satirical premise is that in the future killings are legal and televised, and that potential victims or hunters can get corporate sponsors and extra perks to assist them in succeeding as a professional, corporate-sponsored, celebrity killer. 1069: 217:, where he discovered science fiction. He graduated in 1946 and hitchhiked to California the same year, where he tried numerous jobs: landscape gardener, pretzel salesman, barman, milkman, warehouseman, and general laborer "board man" in a hand-painted necktie studio. Finally, still in 1946, he joined the 560:. Written about a man who goes on a TV show in which he must evade people out to kill him for a week in order to win a large cash prize, it is perhaps the first-ever published work predicting the advent of reality television. There are many similarities between Sheckley's story and Stephen King's novel 313:. He and Kwitney divorced in 1972 and the same year Sheckley married Abby Schulman, whom he had met in Ibiza. The couple had two children, Anya and Jed. The couple separated while living in London. In 1980, the writer returned to the United States and became fiction editor of the newly established 236:
in 1951. The same year he married, for the first time, to Barbara Scadron. The couple had one son, Jason. Sheckley worked in an aircraft factory and as an assistant metallurgist for a short time, but his breakthrough came quickly: in late 1951, he sold his first story, "Final Examination," to
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in 1981 with his fourth wife, writer Jay Rothbell: they subsequently traveled widely in Europe, finally ending up in Portland, Oregon, where they separated. He married Gail Dana of Portland in 1990. Sheckley continued publishing further science fiction and espionage or mystery stories, and
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in the late 1950s, including the above-mentioned "Seventh Victim," "Bad Medicine," "Protection," and "The Native Problem," the last of which was an exploration of Zimmer's Law, or the waiting time paradox. The radio show
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Sheckley's early stories include the far future AAA Ace detective agency series. In these tales, the two partners face unusual problems often related to human incompetence or laziness.
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Sheckley and Scadron divorced in 1956. The writer married journalist Ziva Kwitney in 1957. The newly married couple lived in Greenwich Village. Their daughter,
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In 2007, Chris Larner and David Gilbert created the radio show "The Laxian Key" based on Sheckley's short stories. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
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was adapted twice as a short film, first in Hungary in 1975 with its original title translated to Hungarian ("Világok boltja"). The second was titled
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for the Ukrainian Sci-Fi Computer Week, an international event for science fiction writers, Sheckley fell ill and had to be hospitalized in
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Sheckley was a prolific and versatile writer. His works include not only original short stories and novels, but also TV series episodes (
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In the 1990s, Sheckley wrote a series of three mystery novels featuring detective Hob Draconian, as well as novels set in the worlds of
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Not published in English. Published in Italian under the title "Computer Grand-Guignol" by Arnoldo Mondadori ed, Milano.
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The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance
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The 1954 story "Ghost V" and the 1955 story "The Lifeboat Mutiny" were adapted into two episodes of the
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Avalon (1958), Bantam A1991 (1959), Gollancz (1963), Penguin (1978), Ace (1978), Tor (1991)
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The 1958 short story "The Prize of Peril" was adapted in 1970 as the West German TV movie
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designed for human nature as it actually is, which turns out to have terrible drawbacks).
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The When, Where, and Which of Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles and its Sequel
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Sheckley's first story, "Final Examination", was published in the May 1952 issue of
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Delacorte (1965) Dell 2788 (1966). It was loosely adapted as the 1981 Disney film,
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1984; 23 previously published stories and 16 new)
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magazine. He quickly gained prominence as a writer, publishing stories in
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The short story "Watchbird" was adapted for the short-lived TV series
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Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
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The 1958 short story "The Store of the Worlds" from the collection
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is based on the short story "The Robot That Looked Like Me".
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for Powys Media, but died before completing the manuscript.
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also in the late 1950s did a version of "Watchbird" and
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Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains
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A number of Sheckley's works, some of which under the
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was filmed under that title and was also released as
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Index

Sheckley
Sheckley during the mid-1990s
Brooklyn
Poughkeepsie, New York
Immortality, Inc.
Seventh Victim
sheckley.com

Imagination
absurdist
Hugo
Nebula Awards
Author Emeritus
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Brooklyn
Maplewood, New Jersey
Columbia High School
U.S. Army
Korea
Army Band
New York University
Imagination
Galaxy
Ballantine
Bantam
Immortality, Inc.
Alisa Kwitney
Kingsley Amis
Playboy
The 10th Victim

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