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
regret experts action
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
self doubt process
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
thinking too-much impossible
I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.
hero writing able
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
able complicated walks
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
simple needs way
But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.
heart ideas people
As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.
science fiction critics
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
stars war science
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
science healthy fiction
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
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.
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 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 field
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.