Robert Sheckley

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It's amazing that fantastic American sci-fi writer Robert Sheckley is famous in the USSR & post-Soviet space, Italy and Poland - while the western audience almost do not know him and his works. In my appreciation, he has written no less than 150 cult short stories and no less than 10 cult novels. My personal Top5 of his novels is:
1. Options
2. Mindswap
3. Minotaur's Maze
4. Journey Of Joenes
5. Dramocles

Sheckley was prog-related to psychedelic to plain avant-garde sci-fictionist.

"I used to be afraid that I was going out of my mind. Now I am afraid that I am not going out of my mind" is his quote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sheckley

Do any westerners on the forum know of him?

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Woon Deadn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017	Topic: Robert Sheckley Posted: January 10 2017 at 13:09
	It's amazing that fantastic American sci-fi writer Robert Sheckley is famous in the USSR & post-Soviet space, Italy and Poland - while the western audience almost do not know him and his works. In my appreciation, he has written no less than 150 cult short stories and no less than 10 cult novels. My personal Top5 of his novels is: 1. Options 2. Mindswap 3. Minotaur's Maze 4. Journey Of Joenes 5. Dramocles Sheckley was prog-related to psychedelic to plain avant-garde sci-fictionist. "I used to be afraid that I was going out of my mind. Now I am afraid that I am not going out of my mind" is his quote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sheckley Do any westerners on the forum know of him?

Evolver Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams Joined: October 22 2005 Location: The Idiocracy Status: Offline Points: 5482	Posted: January 10 2017 at 13:56
	Love his books.
	Trust me. I know what I'm doing.

Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: January 10 2017 at 14:31
	Of the comic/absurdist speculative fiction writers of the 60s and 70s I prefer John Sladek over Robert Sheckley. Oddly my favourite novel by Sheckley is The Game of X, which isn't SF.
	What?