Robert Sheckley - Opinions On Sheckley's Work

Opinions On Sheckley's Work

  • "Robert Sheckley: the best short-story writer the field has produced." — Alan Dean Foster
  • "I had no idea the competition was so terrifyingly good." — Douglas Adams
  • "Sheckley at his best is Voltaire and Soda." — Brian W. Aldiss
  • "Probably the best short-story writer during the 50s to the mid-1960s working in any field." — Neil Gaiman
  • "Always he crackles with ideas." — Kingsley Amis
  • " witty and ingenious... a draught of pure Voltaire and tonic." — J. G. Ballard
  • "If the Marx Brothers had been literary rather than thespic fantasists ... they would have been Robert Sheckley." — Harlan Ellison
  • "Journey of Joenes is a mid-20th century version of Voltaire’s Candide." — James Lovelock

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