#robert sheckley

[thefugitivesaint]

Don Maitz, 'Farce', ''The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy Art'', 2003 Cover art for the book 'A Farce To Be Reckoned With' by Roger Zelazny & Robert Sheckley, 1995 Source

#don maitz #american artists #book covers #cover art #book cover designs #roger zelazny #robert sheckley #fantasy art

[gerrysherry]

FAVORITE CANON SYSTEM CHARACTERS

Moon Knight: Popularized by the 2022 tv show the 80s comic character was always coded some DD before being confirmed to have DID in volume 8. The system that is Moon Knight consists of Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley and occasionally others such as introjects of other superheroes. In the original run the original four complemented each other and worked together to solve mysteries and right wrongs. What's touching is how Marlene, MK's love interest says she loves all four of them. I believe Layla is the same in the show.

Mark Vorkosigan: back to the Vorkosigan Saga (see Favorite Non-binary characters part 1) Mark and the black gang are always shown sympathetically. Even Killer, the protective alter who does killing is shown as the most stable. He later goes to therapy and learns to be a functional system. Like Marlene before her, Mark's love interest Kareen says she loves all 5 of him. (Honestly before I knew about MK, I knew I wasn't like Split, I was like Mark Vorkosigan and Alistair Crompton.)

Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde: These two grow up not knowing about each other with the reality serving as the twist of the cartoon season 2. However in the subsequent media they are shown attempting to communicate and help each other, just like any teenage system would. The charm of Monster High is despite the cast being kids of horror monsters said kids are extremely relatable. You should see all of Leo's Holt cosplays. They were obsessed. Nowadays they gravitate to Lockley (above) and Loomis (below)

Crazy Jane: Yes, she has superpowers but she's a great example of a system that switched hosts several. Created by Grant Morrison she is named after the Yeats poem. Her systemhood is celebrated and treated as a superpower itself. She has also changed hosts three times and this is not shown as bad but as something that happens

Alistair Crompton: An obscure one. infected with an alien virus at 11, Crompton developed DID symptoms so severe they had to take the alters out and put them in robot bodies. This procedure, dubbed Massive Cleavage, is experimental and risky. if it works it is unlikely the parts can either merge again and the parts often develop severe personality disorders so reintegration can mean insanity (listen this novella is pretty albleist at times, I'm sorry). As a precaution the two others in cyborg bodies are sent to other planets. Undaunted Alistair Crompton feels incomplete and at 30 the age he is legally allowed to reintegrate, he sets out on an interplanetary journey of self discovery. But Edgar Loomis (his lost creativity, impulsivity and love of life) is perfectly happy as he is and Dan Stack (his lost anger and violence) is trying to isolate himself in the jungle and live a peaceful life alone. Will he convince them to rejoin and will they integrate into one whole?

#moon knight #mark vorkosigan #vorkosigan saga #jackson jekyll #holt hyde #monster high #doom patrol #crazy jane #alistair crompton #the alchemical marriage of alistair crompton #lois mcmaster bujold #grant morrison #robert sheckley #charlie likes

[sivavakkiyar]

fun 50’s SF story, Seventh Victim, by Robert Sheckley. Underrated dude imo. He had a knack for making stories like Shirley Jackson’s Lottery; the kind of stuff you wish you’d found randomly in school because you’d never forget them

#Robert Sheckley

[bracketsoffear]

The Seventh Victim (Robert Sheckley) "Takes place in a world in which society that has eliminated major warfare by allowing members of society who are inclined to violence to join The Big Hunt, a human hunting game in which participants alternate between being a "hunter" and a "victim". The protagonist is surprised to learn that his intended victim is a woman, something which he has never heard of. As he tracks said victim down, he begins to fall for her -- but will love or death rule the day?" (Spoiler under cut)

Jumanji (Chris Van Allsburg) "A Leitner version of this book would cause the jungle to manifest physically in your home, with new animals escaping to hunt you down with every page turned."

Spoiler: It's death. But not hers!

#hunt poll #the hunt #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Seventh Victim #Robert Sheckley #Jumanji #Chris Van Allsburg

[phantastische-illustrationen]

Robert Shekley - Beside Still Waters,  ''Fantastic'', Vol. 16, 1967 (Virgil Finlay)

#Virgil Finlay #Robert Sheckley #science fiction

[vsthepomegranate]

The Tenth Victim (1965)

by Elio Petri

#1960s movies #sci fi #dystopia #marcello mastroianni #ursula andress #robert sheckley

[dreams-of-mutiny]

The deed of dying transcends class and breeding. It is every man’s patent of nobility, his summons from the king, his knightly adventure, the greatest deed of his life. And how he acquits himself in that lonely and perilous enterprise is his true measure as a man.

— Robert Sheckley

#robert sheckley #quotes

[thesillyoldbear]

41st book of 2023 was Robert Sheckley's Untouched By Human Hands.

#booklr #science fiction #briar pipe #tobacco pipes #plants #hip flask #scifi #robert sheckley #matches #books #am reading #vintage

[90smovies]

#Freejack #Emilio Estevez #Mick Jagger #Rene Russo #Anthony Hopkins #Geoff Murphy #Robert Sheckley #Steven Pressfield #Ronald Shusett #Dan Gilroy #90s

[imeraldworf]

Robert Sheckley “ The Gun Without a Bang” illustration

#art #artists on tumblr #digital art #the gun without a bang #robert sheckley #sci fi #sci if art #illustration

[phantomladyoverparis]

Das Millionenspiel (1970), dir. Tom Toelle

#Das Millionenspiel #tom toelle #70s #tv movie #sci-fi #german cinema #robert sheckley #the prize of peril #films on books #films and books

[spaceintruderdetector]

Piero Piccioni/La Decima Vittima /The 10th Victim /Soundtrack/Piero Piccioni

#The 10th Victim #elio pietri #piero piccioni #soundtrack #film score #robert sheckley #science fiction film #the 60s

[white-two]

«Страж-птица» (англ. Watchbird) — фантастический рассказ-притча («кибернетическая антиутопия») Роберта Шекли.

#pixel art #robert sheckley #pixel animation #pixel graphics

[getchar]

#digital art #fanart #illustration #cover art #science fiction #scifiart #robot art #robert sheckley

[bracketsoffear]

The Seventh Victim (Robert Sheckley) "Takes place in a world in which society that has eliminated major warfare by allowing members of society who are inclined to violence to join The Big Hunt, a human hunting game in which participants alternate between being a "hunter" and a "victim". The protagonist is surprised to learn that his intended victim is a woman, something which he has never heard of. As he tracks said victim down, he begins to fall for her -- but will love or death rule the day?" (Spoiler under cut)

Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) "Big hungry dinosaurs vs. small tasty humans. Muldoon commented that the raptors were cruelly intelligent and liked to hunt for sport as much as for food. It was actually justified because (as Malcolm realizes) the raptors discovered that humans are an easy meal and become a favored prey. Meanwhile, the Tyrannosaur seemed to be stalking Dr. Grant and the kids in particular, even leaving behind a Hadrosaur kill to pursue them down a river. At one point it's even waiting at the bottom of a waterfall with its jaws open, hoping they'll fall inside."

Spoiler: It's death. But not hers!

#hunt poll #the hunt #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Seventh Victim #Robert Sheckley #Jurassic Park #Michael Crichton

[tvserie-film]

Title: The Store of The Worlds (1959) Author: Robert Sheckley Vote: 6.5/10 Interesting story that puts a price on dreams and desires but only at the end do we understand what they really mean. At first it seems that it is just the curiosity of a normal man bored by the monotonous life he leads and only in the last pages do we understand that instead it is a desperate individual who has lost everything and so has the rest of humanity.

#The Store of The Worlds #book #Robert Sheckley #6.5 #1959 #Il magazzino dei mondi #sci-fi