1. "Zim Left Unguarded, The
Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead," a brief
story by Robert Sheckley,
first published in Nova magazine, June 1972. The week
after Sheckley died,
Venus rose in the southwest sky, and temperatures in
Portland and New York held
below freezing. ("Venus ascendant" is also
a season referenced in
Sheckley's novel "10th Victim" and a 1956
short story called
"Protection.")
2. Sheckley had a stammer that slowed down his speech at times.
3. Dialogues between Sheckley characters were often colorfully literal. In a story called "Tripout," a visiting alien asked a young Earth woman, "Are you aware you're a very pretty woman?," to which she replied "No." So the alien answered, "Well, then, perhaps you are not."
4. "Is That What People Do?" published in 1978 in a collection of various authors' work, and later the name given to a 1984 collection of Sheckley's own stories.
5. Sheckley loved food from Italy, Greece, Brazil and China. He also loved food from France, Spain and even America. Also, see Footnote 3. Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill.
2. Sheckley had a stammer that slowed down his speech at times.
3. Dialogues between Sheckley characters were often colorfully literal. In a story called "Tripout," a visiting alien asked a young Earth woman, "Are you aware you're a very pretty woman?," to which she replied "No." So the alien answered, "Well, then, perhaps you are not."
4. "Is That What People Do?" published in 1978 in a collection of various authors' work, and later the name given to a 1984 collection of Sheckley's own stories.
5. Sheckley loved food from Italy, Greece, Brazil and China. He also loved food from France, Spain and even America. Also, see Footnote 3. Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill.
