darkly funny sci-fi
July 31, 2006 1:05 PM Subscribe
Because he leavened his darkest visions with wit and absurdist plotting, Robert Sheckley is considered one of science fiction's seminal humorists.
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Drat, my apology, it's a double. Perhaps if I put his stories online as the main post?
posted by nickyskye at 1:09 PM on July 31, 2006
posted by nickyskye at 1:09 PM on July 31, 2006
Sheckley is ill
Sheckley dies
Both earlier threads contain discussion of the man and his legacy (with links to your main link and several stories). I yield to no one in my love of the guy, but I don't think we need another thread. Sorry.
posted by languagehat at 1:13 PM on July 31, 2006
Sheckley dies
Both earlier threads contain discussion of the man and his legacy (with links to your main link and several stories). I yield to no one in my love of the guy, but I don't think we need another thread. Sorry.
posted by languagehat at 1:13 PM on July 31, 2006
Of course, please put this thread to sleep.
Glad to know you like him lh. :)
posted by nickyskye at 1:30 PM on July 31, 2006
Glad to know you like him lh. :)
posted by nickyskye at 1:30 PM on July 31, 2006
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Bad Medicine (in which a man is mistakenly treated by a Martian psychotherapy machine). Protection (whose protagonist is warned of deadly danger unless he avoids an act that is never explained to him). Reborn Again. The Prize of Peril.
posted by nickyskye at 1:05 PM on July 31, 2006