Any one read any of Robert Sheckley's stuff

[NotAllThere]

I'm just rereading Dimension of Miracles. I wish I could write like that.

"He was somewhat above the average in height and self-deprecation"

[sasguru]

Hardly Nobel prize-winning material.

[AtW]

Robert Sheckley was very popular in USSR (and later Russia), one of the best SciFi writers - very undervalue in the West. Car in which he was driven in Russia was once stopped by a local policeman there but even he recognised (from name) him and let them off. In Ukraine when Sheckley's health was bad local oligarch even paid for an operation in good hospital.

Robert Sheckley is one of the best writers - on the same level as Asimov, I'd prefer Sheckley actually as his black sense of humour is very good.

[OwlHoot]

I'm just rereading Dimension of Miracles. I wish I could write like that.

"He was somewhat above the average in height and self-deprecation"

Sounds a bit like Saki "She was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go she went."