Talk:Robert Sheckley
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[edit] Twilight Zone
Are we sure that Mr. Sheckley, who just passed away, wrote episodes for The Twilight Zone? The imdb only creates him with Captain Video, not TZ. Is this right in the article? 12/9/05
No, I don't believe so, certainly not during the days of Serling. Sheckley wrote for Twilight Zone Magazine, including book reviews and many excellent stories such as "Shootout in the Toyshop", "5 Minutes Early" and also "Juleeeeeeeen!" which was cowritten with his wife Jay Rothbell Sheckley. He wrote so many stories in the 1950's that Robert Sheckley was believed by many other writers to be a pseudonymous "house name." Sheckley himself said that he heard that the Sheckley name was used by tv writers for The Twilight Zone as a character name, to show that they knew he wasn't real. He was.
[edit] Slapstick
Should Sheckley's novels be considered slapstick? Lefty 15:32, 2004 Feb 21 (UTC)
Describing Sheckley's books as slapstick is debatable, I think. I'm going to mull this over for future modification. Additional comments on the subject welcome! kjfasimpaur 14:06, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
IMHO Sheckley's novels are not slapstick in general, although slapstick is used in some of them as a vehicle. Perhaps I would consider Mindswap a slapstick novel, but I find Immortality Incorporated and The Status Civilization to be deeper. His short stories have even more conveyed meaning than his novels, very recently I recommended someone to read A Ticket to Tranai to convey a philosophical point :-)
- It has been reported that Robert Sheckley died. I'm not going to add that information until confirmation and I ask others don't either. General sources for things like this are Locus Online and the SFWA News--T. Anthony 17:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] "cited" v. "claimed"
"His novel Dimension of Miracles is often cited as an influence on Douglas Adams, although in an interview for Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion, Adams claimed not to have read it until after writing The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy."
Perhaps it is my imperfect grasp of the English language (I am a native Dutch speaker), but to me this sounds like the author thinks Adams was lying. "Cite" sounds more authoritative to me than a mere "claim". But perhaps I am seeing things that aren't there?--82.92.181.129 03:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Sheckley's work _prefigured_ Adams.
[edit] Too many low-value links
I would like to do some work on this article. One thing that strikes me is the large number of redlinks to works of fiction and the links to years (or, in some case, xxxx in fiction). Would anybody mind if I removed these? The redlinks are probably not realistic (if somebody seriously intends to write these in the near future I'll hold off), and the year links add little. --Guinnog 15:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
