Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005) was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. There are those who were shocked he was not given the Grand Master Award instead. Wikipedia
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Robert Sheckley passed away at Vassar Brothers Medical Center Poughkeepsie New York on Friday, December 9, 2005. He was 77. He was first hospitalized while in the Ukraine in April of this year. He returned to the US in late May, and recovered in the su www.sfwa.org/News/rsheckley.htm
