An interview with Robert Sheckley

[dwndrgn]

Looking into the subject of humor in sci fi from another thread, I found this article on Scifi.com

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue352/interview.html

aside from humor, he's got some very interesting thoughts on life...

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

That was interesting - and unsettling. I've always suspected that the most effective humour is usually informed by a rather grim outlook, and Sheckley certainly seems to fall into that category.


This reminds of another older SF writer I have recently discovered and come to admire - Barry N Malzberg. His works are incredibly dark, but have a black humour to them as well. Not laugh-out-loud stuff, but very effective...and also disturbing. Malzberg, too, has virtually ceased writing much SF anymore.