A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

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.