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
american-author field
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in 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.
writing thinking luck
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
writing three stories
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
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 interfere knew selling
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.