So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

The film starred Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress. The 1958 short story "The Prize of Peril" was adapted in 1970 as the German TV movie Das Millionenspiel and again in 1983 as the French movie Le Prix du Danger.

Robert Sheckley (July 16 1928 – December 9 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.