Robert Sheckley was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City.
13 Facts About Robert Sheckley
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Robert Sheckley attended Columbia High School, where he discovered science fiction.
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Robert Sheckley graduated in 1946 and hitchhiked to California the same year, where he tried numerous jobs: landscape gardener, pretzel salesman, barman, milkman, warehouseman, and general laborer "board man" in a hand-painted necktie studio.
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Robert Sheckley graduated with an arts degree from New York University in 1951.
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Robert Sheckley worked in an aircraft factory and as an assistant metallurgist for a short time, but his breakthrough came quickly: in late 1951, he sold his first story, "Final Examination," to Imagination magazine.
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Robert Sheckley quickly gained prominence as a writer, publishing stories in Imagination, Galaxy, and other science fiction magazines.
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Robert Sheckley left OMNI in 1981 with his fourth wife, writer Jay Rothbell: they subsequently traveled widely in Europe, finally ending up in Portland, Oregon, where they separated.
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Robert Sheckley continued publishing further science fiction and espionage or mystery stories, and collaborated with other writers such as Roger Zelazny and Harry Harrison.
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Robert Sheckley's condition was very serious for a week, but he appeared to be slowly recovering.
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Robert Sheckley settled in Red Hook, in northern Dutchess County, New York, to be near his daughters Anya and Alisa.
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Robert Sheckley's works include not only original short stories and novels, but TV series episodes, novelizations of works by others, stories in shared universes such as Heroes in Hell, and collaborations with other writers.
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Robert Sheckley was best known for his several hundred short stories, which he published in book form as well as individually.
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In many stories Robert Sheckley speculates about alternative social orders, of which a good example is the story "A Ticket to Tranai".