Robert Sheckley

  • American


Robert Sheckley was a notable American 20th century Science Fiction writer. - AsNotedIn


Timeline

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1928/07/17 Robert Sheckley is born in Brooklyn, New York. Born
1952/12/00 Written under the pen name of Phillips Barbee, Robert Sheckley's "The Leech" is published in Galaxy Science Fiction. Author The Leech (short story)
1953/04/00 "Seventh Victim" by American writer Robert Sheckley is published in 'Galaxy Science Fiction'. Author Seventh Victim (short story)
1954/00/00 Robert Sheckley's collection of short stories, "Untouched by Human Hands", is published by Ballantine Books. Author Untouched by Human Hands (short story collection)
1955/00/00 Ballantine Books publishes "Citizen in Space", a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert Sheckley. Author Citizen in Space (short story collection)
1957/00/00 "Pilgrimage to Earth", a collection of Science Fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley, is published by Bantam Books. Author Pilgrimage to Earth (short story collection)
1960/00/00 "Store of Infinity", a collection of Science Fiction short stories penned by Robert Sheckley, is published by Bantam Books. Author Store of Infinity (short story collection)
1960/00/00 "Notions: Unlimited", a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley, is published by Bantam Books. Author Notions: Unlimited (short story collection)
1962/00/00 Bantam Books publish "Shards of Space", a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. Author Shards of Space (short story collection)
1968/00/00 "The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance", a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Robert Sheckley, is published by Dell. Author The People Trap and other Pitfalls (short story collection)
1968/00/00 "Dimension of Miracles" by Robert Sheckley is published by Dell Publishing. Author Dimension of Miracles (book)
1969/00/00 "Cordle to Onion to Carrot" is published. Author Cordle to Onion to Carrot (short story)
1971/00/00 "The Cruel Equations" is published. Author The Cruel Equations (Sheckley short story)
1971/00/00 "Game: First Schematic" is published. Author Game: First Schematic (short story)
1971/00/00 "Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter and the Customer" is served. Author Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter and the Customer (short story)
1971/00/00 "Plague Circuit" is published. Author Plague Circuit (short story)
1971/12/00 "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?", a collection of science fiction short stories by writer Robert Sheckley, is published by Doubleday. It was also published by Pan Books under title "The Same To You Doubled". Author Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (short story collection)
1978/00/00 "The Robot Who Looked Like Me" short story collection is published by Sphere Books. Author The Robot Who Looked Like Me (short story collection)
1984/00/00 Holt, Rinehart and Winston publish, "Is That What People Do?", a collection of new and previously published Science Fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. Author Is THAT What People Do? (short story collection)
2003/00/00 "Uncanny Tales", a collection of science fiction short stories composed by Robert Sheckley, is published by Five Star. Author Uncanny Tales (short story collection)
2005/00/00 "The Masque of Manana" is published for Robert Sheckley's Guest of Honourship at Interaction, the World Science Fiction Convention. This volume contains his major short science fiction pieces. Author The Masque of Manana (short story collection)
2005/11/20 At a hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, Robert Sheckley undergoes surgery for a brain aneurysm. Health
2005/12/09 Robert Sheckley dies from complications of a brain aneurysm in a Poughkeepsie hospital. Died

289 Creative Works by Robert Sheckley »

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Title Type Association Y/M/D Moniker
The Victim from Space (short story) Author Short Story 1947/00/00
Cost of Living (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
We Are Alone (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
The Impacted Man (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
Warrior Race (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
Proof of the Pudding (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
Writing Class (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
Fear in the Night (short story) Author Short Story 1952/00/00
Final Examination (short story) Author Short Story 1952/05/00
The Leech (short story) Author Short Story 1952/12/00
Specialist (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Watchbird (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Diplomatic Immunity (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Beside Still Waters (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Ultimatum! (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Fool's Mate (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The Altar (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Spacemen in the Dark (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Wild Talents, Inc. (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Fishing Season (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
What A Man Believes (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Ritual (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Potential (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The Demons (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Ask a Foolish Question (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Restricted Area (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
What Goes Up (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The Special Exhibit (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The King's Wishes (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Time Check for Control (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The Last Weapon (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Warm (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Shape (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Feeding Time (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The Monsters (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
The Odor of Thought (short story) Author Short Story 1953/00/00
Seventh Victim (short story) Author Short Story 1953/04/00
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story
Operating Instructions (short story) Author Short Story 1953/05/00
Coast to Coast (short story) Author Short Story 1953/07/00
Closed Circuit (short story) Author Short Story 1953/09/00
The Hour of Battle (short story) Author Short Story 1953/09/00
One Man's Poison (short story) Author Short Story 1953/12/00
  • 1000 Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas
The Perfect Woman (short story) Author Short Story 1953/12/00
A Thief in Time (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
The Battle (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
The Slow Season (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Off-Limits Planet (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Hands Off (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Milk Run (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Untouched by Human Hands (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1954/00/00
Uncle Tom's Planet (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Skulking Permit (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Man of the Hour (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
The Academy (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
The Hungry (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Something for Nothing (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
The Laxian Key (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Paradise II (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Ghost V (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
The Accountant (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Subsistence Level (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Minority Group (short story) Author Short Story 1954/00/00
Carrier (short story) Author Short Story 1954/04/00
The Ogre Test (short story) Author Short Story 1954/06/00
Hex on Hax (short story) Author Short Story 1954/09/00
Conquerors Planet (short story) Author Short Story 1954/10/00
Change from a Silver Dollar (short story) Author Short Story 1954/12/00
The Necessary Thing (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Warrior's Return (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Deadhead Deadhead (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
The Luckiest Man in the World (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
The Lifeboat Mutiny (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Disposal Service (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
The Mountain Without a Name (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Earth, Air, Fire and Water (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Citizen in Space (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1955/00/00
A Ticket to Tranai (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
The Deep Hole to China (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Hunting Problem (short story) Author Short Story 1955/00/00
Squirrel Cage (short story) Author Short Story 1955/01/00
Citizen in Space (short story) Author Short Story 1955/09/00
The Native Problem (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Pilgrimage to Earth (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
All the Things You Are (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Protection (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
The Mob (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
The Skag Castle (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Bad Medicine (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
The Body (Sheckley story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Early Model (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Trap (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Human Man's Burden (short story) Author Short Story 1956/00/00
Death Wish (short story) Author Short Story 1956/06/00
Dawn Invader (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
The Language of Love (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Double Indemnity (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Mrs Donaldson's Puzzling Dream (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Gray Flannel Armor (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
The Machine (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Alone at Last (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Pilgrimage to Earth (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1957/00/00
Holdout (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
The Martyr (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
A Wind Is Rising (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Morning After (short story) Author Short Story 1957/00/00
Charter for Murder (short story) Author Short Story 1958/00/00
Accept No Substitutes (short story) Author Short Story 1958/00/00
Prospector's Special (short story) Author Short Story 1959/00/00
The Sweeper of Loray (short story) Author Short Story 1959/00/00
Svengali in Westchester (short story) Author Short Story 1959/00/00
She Was Made for Love (short story) Author Short Story 1959/00/00
Forever (short story) Author Short Story 1959/00/00
Duplication (short story) Author Short Story 1959/05/00
Judication (short story) Author Short Story 1959/05/00
Lubrication (short story) Author Short Story 1959/05/00
If the Red Slayer (short story) Author Short Story 1959/07/00
The Store of the Worlds (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
The Covenant (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
Meeting of the Minds (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
The Gun Without a Bang (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
The Girls and Nugent Miller (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
Store of Infinity (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1960/00/00
The Humours (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
Notions: Unlimited (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1960/00/00
The Minimum Man (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
The Prize of Peril (short story) Author Short Story 1960/00/00
Shards of Space (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1962/00/00
Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide (short story) Author Short Story 1962/00/00
Shall We Have a Little Talk? (short story) Author Short Story 1965/00/00
Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay (short story) Author Short Story 1967/00/00
Dreamworld (short story) Author Short Story 1968/00/00
The People Trap (short story) Author Short Story 1968/00/00
Redfern's Labyrinth (short story) Author Short Story 1968/00/00
The Petrified World (short story) Author Short Story 1968/00/00
The People Trap and other Pitfalls (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1968/00/00
I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair is Biting His Leg (short story) Author Short Story 1968/00/00
Dimension of Miracles (book) Author Novel 1968/00/00
Budget Planet (short story) Author Short Story 1968/03/00
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (short story) Author Short Story 1969/00/00
Cordle to Onion to Carrot (short story) Author Short Story 1969/00/00
Starting from Scratch (short story) Author Short Story 1970/00/00
The Same to You Doubled (short story) Author Short Story 1970/00/00
Plague Circuit (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
  • 1000 Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas
Down the Digestive Tract and into the Cosmos with Mantra, Tantra and Specklebang (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
Tailpipe to Disaster (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
Game: First Schematic (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
  • 1000 Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas
The Mnemone (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
The Cruel Equations (Sheckley short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
  • 1000 Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas
Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
Tripout (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
Aspects of Langranak (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter and the Customer (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
  • 1000 Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas
Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends (short story) Author Short Story 1971/00/00
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1971/12/00
Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead (short story) Author Short Story 1972/00/00
A Suppliant in Space (short story) Author Short Story 1973/00/00
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (short story) Author Short Story 1973/00/00
The Robot Who Looked Like Me (short story) Author Short Story 1973/00/00
Voices (short story) Author Short Story 1973/00/00
End City (short story) Author Short Story 1974/00/00
Slaves of Time (short story) Author Short Story 1974/00/00
Syncope and Fugue (short story) Author Short Story 1975/00/00
In a Land of Clear Colors (short story) Author Short Story 1976/00/00
The Never-Ending Western Movie (short story) Author Short Story 1976/00/00
What is Life? (short story) Author Short Story 1976/00/00
Sneak Previews (short story) Author Short Story 1977/00/00
Silversmith Wishes (short story) Author Short Story 1977/00/00
Is THAT What People Do? (short story) Author Short Story 1978/00/00
The Robot Who Looked Like Me (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1978/00/00
Body Game (short story) Author Short Story 1978/12/00
The Shaggy Average American Man Story (short story) Author Short Story 1979/00/00
I Can Teleport Myself to Anywhere (short story) Author Short Story 1979/00/00
Good-Bye Forever to Mr Pain (short story) Author Short Story 1979/00/00
The Future Lost (short story) Author Short Story 1980/00/00
The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth (short story) Author Short Story 1980/00/00
Celestial Visitations (short story) Author Short Story 1980/11/00
The Swamp (short story) Author Short Story 1981/00/00
The Shootout in the Toy Shop (short story) Author Short Story 1981/00/00
Eastern Exposures (short story) Author Short Story 1981/02/00
The Helping Hand (short story) Author Short Story 1981/04/00
The Man Who Loved (short story) Author Short Story 1981/04/00
The Wish (short story) Author Short Story 1981/04/00
Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension (short story) Author Short Story 1982/00/00
The Future of Sex: Speculative Journalism (short story) Author Short Story 1982/00/00
How to Write Science Fiction (short story) Author Short Story 1982/00/00
The Eye of Reality (short story) Author Short Story 1982/00/00
Five Minutes Early (short story) Author Short Story 1982/00/00
Myryx (short story) Author Short Story 1983/00/00
Vacation on Earth (short story) Author Short Story 1983/00/00
The Life of Anybody (short story) Author Short Story 1984/00/00
Is THAT What People Do? (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 1984/00/00
Robotgnomics (short story) Author Short Story 1984/12/00
The Last Word (short story) Author Short Story 1985/02/00
Robotvendor Rex (short story) Author Short Story 1985/02/00
The Universal Karmic Clearing House (short story) Author Short Story 1986/00/00
Memoir (short story) Author Short Story 1986/00/00
Sarkanger (short story) Author Short Story 1986/01/00
Juleeeeeeeeeeen! (short story) Author Short Story 1986/10/00
At the Conference of Birds (short story) Author Short Story 1987/00/00
Dial-a-Death (short story) Author Short Story 1987/00/00
There Will Be No War After This One (short story) Author Short Story 1987/00/00
Spectator Playoffs (short story) Author Short Story 1987/00/00
The Robotic Replacement of George (short story) Author Short Story 1987/00/00
Klaxon (short story) Author Short Story 1988/00/00
Traitors' Saga (short story) Author Short Story 1988/00/00
Message from Hell (short story) Author Short Story 1988/00/00
The Eryx (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Divine Intervention (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
The Resurrection Machine (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Khasara (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
The Destruction of Atlantis (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
The Homecoming (Sheckley short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Death Freaks (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Love Song from the Stars (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Death of the Dreammaster (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
The Mind-Slaves of Manitori (short story) Author Short Story 1989/00/00
Breakout (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
The Joker's War (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
Simul City (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
Alien Starswarm (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
Trojan Hearse (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
The Rabbi from Perdido (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
Minotaur Maze (short story) Author Short Story 1990/00/00
Xolotl (short story) Author Short Story 1991/00/00
Wormworld (short story) Author Short Story 1991/00/00
The Seal of Solomon (short story) Author Short Story 1991/00/00
The Other Mars (short story) Author Short Story 1991/00/00
Onesday (short story) Author Short Story 1991/00/00
The Scheherezade Machine (short story) Author Short Story 1991/06/00
Dukakis and the Aliens (short story) Author Short Story 1992/00/00
The Stand on Luminos (short story) Author Short Story 1992/00/00
The Disorder and Early Sorrow of Edward Moore Kennedy, Homunculus (short story) Author Short Story 1992/00/00
The Dream Country (short story) Author Short Story 1992/00/00
Disquisitions on the Dinosaur (short story) Author Short Story 1993/00/00
A New Christmas Carol (short story) Author Short Story 1993/00/00
Diaghilev Plays Riverworld (short story) Author Short Story 1993/00/00
The Deaths of Ben Baxter (short story) Author Short Story 1994/00/00
City of the Dead (short story) Author Short Story 1994/00/00
Perseus (Sheckley short story) Author Short Story 1994/00/00
Weather Sirens (short story) Author Short Story 1994/00/00
Miranda (short story) Author Short Story 1994/00/00
Devildeal (short story) Author Short Story 1994/00/00
The Day the Aliens Came (short story) Author Short Story 1995/00/00
A Plague of Unicorns (short story) Author Short Story 1995/00/00
George and the Boxes (short story) Author Short Story 1995/00/00
Aliens: Alien Harvest (short story) Author Short Story 1995/00/00
Seven Soup Rivers (short story) Author Short Story 1995/01/00
Mayhem Party (short story) Author Short Story 1996/00/00
Emissary from a Green and Yellow World (short story) Author Short Story 1998/00/00
Kenny (short story) Author Short Story 1999/00/00
Deep Blue Sleep (short story) Author Short Story 1999/00/00
Visions of the Green Moon (short story) Author Short Story 1999/00/00
Pandora's Box - Open with Care (short story) Author Short Story 2000/00/00
On Three Cigars (short story) Author Short Story 2000/00/00
Magic, Maples, and Maryanne (short story) Author Short Story 2000/00/00
The new Horla (short story) Author Short Story 2000/06/00
An Infinity of Angels (short story) Author Short Story 2001/00/00
The Quijote Robot (short story) Author Short Story 2001/00/00
A Trick Worth Two of That (short story) Author Short Story 2001/00/00
Mirror Games (short story) Author Short Story 2001/00/00
A Conversation With The West Nile Virus (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
Shoes (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
A Strange But Familiar Country (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
Agamemnon's Run (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
Cornfield (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
Sightseeing, 2179 (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
The Obsidian Mirror (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
The Dream of Misunderstanding (short story) Author Short Story 2002/00/00
Hunger (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
The Refuge Elsewhere (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
Message From Pluto (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
Legend of Conquistadors (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
Privilege Of Age (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
The Tales of Zanthias (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
The Sympathetic Doctor (short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
Beetle (Sheckley short story) Author Short Story 2003/00/00
Uncanny Tales (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 2003/00/00
A Spirit of Place (short story) Author Short Story 2004/00/00
Conversations on Mars (short story) Author Short Story 2004/00/00
My Trip To Mars (short story) Author Short Story 2004/00/00
The Old Curiosity Shop (short story) Author Short Story 2004/00/00
The Forest on the Asteroid (short story) Author Short Story 2004/00/00
The Two Sheckleys (short story) Author Short Story 2005/00/00
The Paris-Ganymede Clock (short story) Author Short Story 2005/00/00
Scenes from the Contest (short story) Author Short Story 2005/00/00
The Masque of Manana (short story collection) Author Short Story Collection 2005/00/00
Reborn Again (short story) Author Short Story 2005/00/00
Conversation on Mars (short story) Author Short Story 2005/03/00

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