I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

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.