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Robert Sheckley [šeklý] byl americký spisovatel židovského původu, představitel sci-fi a dobrodružné literatury, do níž vnesl prvky humoru, satiry a absurdity.

K jeho nejslavnějším románům patří Nesmrtelnost spol. s r.o. , který knižně vyšel roku 1958 . Roku 1992 byl zfilmován pod názvem Freejack, s Mickem Jaggerem, Emilio Estevezem a Anthony Hopkinsem v hlavních rolích. Slavným antiutopickým románem je též Status Civilisation, který vyšel česky pod názvem Omega, planeta zla. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. červenec 1928 – 9. prosinec 2005
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“I found her charming, went home and thought no more about her. Or, I thought I would think no more about her. But in the following days and nights her image remained obsessively before my eyes. My appetite fell off and I began sleeping badly. My computer checked out the relevant data and told me that I might conceivably be having a nervous breakdown; but the strongest inference was that I was in love.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha The Robot Who Looked Like Me

The Robot Who Looked Like Me (p. 3)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“It was one hell of an inspection when you went around finding how many sane men you had left.”

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Fool’s Mate (p. 87)
Short fiction, Shards of Space (1962)

“Hope could be dangerous, desire could be catastrophic.”

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The Girls and Nugent Miller (p. 24)
Short fiction, Shards of Space (1962)

“Had he been right or was he just another visionary?”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Watchbird

Watchbird (p. 44)
Short fiction, Notions: Unlimited (1960)

“You simply can’t throw strangers together at random and expect the fiery, quick romance to turn into love. Love has its own rules and enforces them rigidly.”

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Gray Flannel Armor (p. 9)
Short fiction, Notions: Unlimited (1960)

“Ifs and buts could erode the soundest of principles.”

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Hands Off (p. 86)
Short fiction, Citizen in Space (1955)

“What kind of intelligent beings would evolve on a planet that is all mountains?”

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“Stupid ones!” Casker said.
Untouched by Human Hands (p. 75)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)

“This planet’s secret menace was—freedom!”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Shape

Shape (p. 44)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)

“Isn’t there anything you can do about the predator?”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Dimension of Miracles

Carmody asked.
“Nothing. Nor would I if I could. Predation is a necessary circumstance. Even the Gods are eventually eaten by Fate. You will not be an exception to the universal rule.”

Chapter 21 (p. 136)
Dimension of Miracles (1968)

“It might have meant something, or it might not have. That was the thing about uncertainty, you were never sure.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Hunter/Victim

Zdroj: Hunter/Victim (1988), Chapter 18 (p. 100)

“It was the sort of atmosphere of good humor which so often accompanies a total absence of good taste.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Victim Prime

Zdroj: Victim Prime (1987), Chapter 48 (pp. 187-188)

“I’m proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you’ll find quite enjoyable.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Victim Prime

“Make it ten,” Foote said, “and I’ll enjoy it even more.”

Chapter 37 (pp. 151-152)
Victim Prime (1987)

“Nobody says any longer, When will the killing stop?”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Victim Prime

Now we know that the killing will stop only when life itself stops.

Prologue (p. 8)
Victim Prime (1987)

“Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril.”

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I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (p. 150)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“The disease may not be too difficult to live with. I thought you said it was terminal?”

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“So I did. But then, everything is terminal, even health, even life itself. The only question is how long, and in what manner.”

I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (p. 142)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“I know they can’t help being young, but isn’t there something they can do about being so stupid?”

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“I reckon not, Mr. Washburn,” Curly says.

The Never-Ending Western Movie (p. 119)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“What is the purpose of being really intelligent if not to have the substance of what you want without mistaking it for the shadow?”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Welcome to the Standard Nightmare

Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (p. 102)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“You argue too damned well!”

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“It is just my good luck,” Detringer said, “that logic happens to be on the side of helping me.”

A Supplicant in Space (p. 64)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“Paradox is the inevitable forerunner of chaos.”

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The Impacted Man (p. 49)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)

“Not even the thought of death can upset the man who is going into space for the first time. The journey into the unknown transcends the framework of anxiety, at least for a while.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton

Zdroj: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 6 (p. 28)

“We denizens of Earth have a common vice: We take what we’re offered, whether we need it or not.
You can get into a lot of trouble that way.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Pilgrimage to Earth

Protection (p. 101)
Short fiction, Pilgrimage to Earth (1957)

“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha Mindswap

Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Zdroj: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)

“Words, in the final analysis, are just about as futile as actions, and much less fun.”

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Robert Sheckley kniha The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton

Zdroj: Crompton Divided (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 39)

“I’ve heard that some of the larger spiders hunt songbirds. I have no objection to that. The spiders belong here, too. Let nature do what it needs to do. We who are people know more than to guide ourselves by nature’s practices.”

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The Tales of Zanthias (published in Weird Tales (July-August, 2003); reprinted in David G. Hartwell (ed.), Year’s Best Fantasy 4 (pp. 400-401))
Short fiction