I’ve been looking back at Robert Sheckley’s first short-story collection, Untouched by Human Hands. It was published in 1954, when Sheckley would have been 26 (or maybe only 25, depending on what part of the year the book came out). It includes his classic story “The Monsters,” originally published in F&SF, which I like to reread every couple of years.

But what attracted my attention the most this time was his biographical blurb from the last page, which listed his previous jobs from his first quarter century as: (more…)