When was the author of "Blow-up and Other Stories" born?
Blow-up and Other Stories Blow-Up and Other Stories is a collection of short stories, selected from the short fiction of the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar. It was originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories. The title story of the paperback collection served as inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blowup".
Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley (July 17, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.