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Victim Prime
''Victim Prime'' is a novel by Robert Sheckley published in 1987. Plot summary ''Victim Prime'' is a novel in which the deadly Hunt is played in a resort in a dystopian 2092. Reception David Langford, Dave Langford reviewed ''Victim Prime'' for ''White Dwarf (magazine), White Dwarf'' #87, and stated that "It moves well enough, but despite ingenious ploys and counterploys has a touch of staleness: Sheckley imitating Sheckley." Reviews *Review by Brian Stableford (1987) in Fantasy Review, April 1987 *Review by Tom Easton (1987) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1987 *Review by Edward Bryant (1987) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1987 *Review by Lee Montgomerie (1987) in Interzone (magazine), Interzone, #21 Autumn 1987 *Review by Mike Christie (1987) in Foundation (journal), Foundation, #39 Spring 1987 References {{reflist 1987 novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical. Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Biography Sheckley was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. In 1931 the family moved to Maplewood, New Jersey. Sheckley attended Columbia High School, where he discovered science fiction. He graduated in 1946 and hitchhiked to California the same year, where he tried numerous jobs: landscape gardener, pretzel salesman, barman, milkman, warehouseman, and general laborer "board man" in a hand-painted necktie studio. Finally, still in 1946, he joined the U.S. Army and was sent to Korea.Jonas, Gerald"Robert Sheckley, 77, Writer of Satirical Science Fiction, Is Dead" ''The New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
