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Robert Sheckley (born July 16, 1928) began appearing in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s with stories and novels, fantasies that are often moralistic (in the sense that they have a moral), but more often slapstick and absurdist.
Typical Sheckley stories include "Bad Medicine" (in which a man is mistakenly treated by a Martian psychotherapy machine), "Protection" (whose protagonist is warned of deadly danger unless he avoids an act that is never explained to him), and "The Accountant" (in which a family of wizards learns that their son has been taken from them by a more sinister trade).
He is the author of a number of episodes of The Twilight Zone. One of his novels, Immortality Inc -- about a world in which the afterlife is scientifically perfect -- was very loosely adapted into the film, Freejack, starring Mick Jagger and Emilio Estevez.
His novel Dimension of Miracles is often cited as an influence on Douglas Adams.
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