![]() ![]() ![]() Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. His stories first appeared in science fiction magazines of the 1950s.His quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. In fact Robert Sheckley has long been my favorite sci-fi humorist, alongside Douglas Adams. ![]() This is something Sheckley does very well, usually in a humorous manner. Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. In The Status Civilization Robert Sheckley turns the idea of society and morality on its head in his world-building for the planet Omega. But what seemed obvious at the time became less so as the years passed. The Status Civilization first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. 53 quotes from Robert Sheckley: Many reasons had been given, and every man adopted the rationale which suited his own particular emotionality. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. ![]() Now he was serving his sentence on Omega - a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard-ships from which there was no escape. Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A NEW ARRIVAL ON OMEGA AVERAGED THREE EARTH YEARS Will Barrent could choose-exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth! Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth - an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and non-conformist. The Status Civilization first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. ![]()
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