American - Author | July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005
I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.
Robert Sheckley
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I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
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It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
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The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
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There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
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