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Sheckley's stories, especially in IS THAT WHAT PEOPLE DO? are amazingly witty and full of surprising twists and turns and paradoxial ideas. They are also extremely funny.

His book Dimension of Miracles is a masterpiece of satire.

Journey Beyond Tomorrow and Mindswap are also superb satires, existential to the max, alternately sweet and mean, monstrous and beautiful.

One of my favorite scifi writers.

>>By Umberto Baggaccio-Noon (Friday, 13 Jun 2003 04:28)

Hurrah for the obscure! I'm a big fan of Robert too. Books like Immortality Incorporated and The Status Civilisation are fabulously stirical. His short stories are little works of genius too. Considering they were written the 1950s quite frighteninly prescient! Read them and see how many phenomena of our own time this man put his finger on: consumer credit, people freaking out and murdering random people (beserkers he called them) etc.

>>By BluSkize (Sunday, 13 Mar 2005 13:46)

RIP (he died on 09 Dec 2005)

>>By BluSkize (Tuesday, 20 Dec 2005 23:24)

Robert Sheckley was one of the great science fiction humorists / satirists. My own favorite is Journey of Joenes (also titled Journey Beyond Tomorrow). His short stories are masterpieces. In the 1950's several of them were adapted to radio, the science fiction series X Minus One. These are all available in mp3 form in the internet sound archive: www.archive.org.

>>By indeterminacy (Saturday, 11 Mar 2006 08:42)

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