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Robert Sheckley (born July 16, 1928) is an American author. He first appeared in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s with stories and novels, fantasies that are often moralistic (in the sense that they have a moral), but more often absurdist and broadly comical.
Typical Sheckley stories include "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), and "The Accountant" (in which a family of wizards learns that their son has been taken from them by a more sinister trade).
He is the author of a number of episodes of The Twilight Zone. One of his early works, the 1965 novel The 10th Victim, was the basis for a film of the same name, also known by the original Italian title, La Decima Vittima. The film starred Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress. Another novel, Immortality Inc. — about a world in which the afterlife could be obtained via a scientific process — was very loosely adapted into a film, the 1992 Freejack, starring Mick Jagger, Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins.
In the 1990's, Sheckley wrote a well-received series of three mystery novels featuring detective Hob Draconian.
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, Adams claimed not to have read it until after writing The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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