Robert Sheckley's Books
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The Laertian GambleWhen a mysterious alien woman from the planet Laertes convinces Dr. Bashir to gamble for her at Quark's gaming tables, things seem innocent enough....Read More
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Io9, August 31, 2012
...force myself to do it. But I know I'm not alone in this, because I once visited Robert Sheckley at home. And tacked up over his writing chair was a promise to himself that if he didn't do so many thousand words by a certain date, he...
DVDActive, August 15, 2012
...s The Running Man and Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000, both of which owe a debt to Robert Sheckley’s short story ‘The Prize of Peril’. The only specific twist on the ‘most dangerous game’ motif Battle Royale and The Hunger Games share is the...
Wired News, December 31, 2012
...I discovered Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise. In prose, my influences include my father, science fiction writer Robert Sheckley, Judy Blume, Fay Weldon, Carl Hiaasen and John D. MacDonald. But I continue to be influenced. I’m always trying to...
OpEdNews.com, December 2, 2012
...man' F. Rabelais, 1500s ( It is all not real, folks, But you never know:) 1.New banned author. Robert Sheckley, the famous science fiction author is banned in the US because of one short story 'The Guard Bird'. In that story humans unleashed...
Examiner.com, November 30, 2012
...super spy much like James Bond which was loosely based on the novel "The Game of X" by Robert Sheckley. For this film, Michael Crawford (yes, The Phantom of the Opera before he was the phantom) starred as Woody Wilkens, a comic book artist who how...
ArticleSnatch.com, November 28, 2012
...It's fitting that he dedicates this collection to three short story icons -- Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Sheckley. Gaimans book is a wildly diverse assortment of horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy, poetry, and speculative fiction...
AlterNet.org, October 3, 2012
...s life expectancy. Has Bloomberg been looking a little Sheen-y lately? Just kidding. Based on a novel by Robert Sheckley, this movie has all the slick dystopian action elements of a Total Recall , as well as a casting coup in the form of Mick Jagger, who...
TMC Net, September 15, 2012
...hoping for one of the futures of hyperindividualism and selfreliance predicted by Robert Heinlein or, even better, a Robert Sheckley future (I could use a good laugh). The speech technology future that I live in comes in three parts. The technical...
Den of Geek, September 4, 2012
...fame, and sliding down a familiarly slippery slope… 21. Le Prix du Danger (Boisset; 1983) Adapted from Robert Sheckley’s 1958 novel The Prize of Peril, Yves Boisset’s Le Prix du Danger tells the story of a television show in which citizens...
