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Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530400928 Category : Languages : en Pages : 368
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Contents Ask a Foolish Question Beside Still Waters Cost of Living Death Wish Diplomatic Immunity Forever Keep Your Shape One Man's Poison Proof of the Pudding The Hour of Battle The Leech The Status Civilization Warm Warrior Race Watchbird
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530400928 Category : Languages : en Pages : 368
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Contents Ask a Foolish Question Beside Still Waters Cost of Living Death Wish Diplomatic Immunity Forever Keep Your Shape One Man's Poison Proof of the Pudding The Hour of Battle The Leech The Status Civilization Warm Warrior Race Watchbird
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590175085 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
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An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of Sheckley’s deadpan farces, proving once again that he belongs beside such mordant critics of contemporary mores as Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and Thomas Pynchon.
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497650577 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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In “Gray Flannel Armor,” a man named Hanley finds perfection in a rigidly regular structure of social interaction—including for romance—and devises a system that the whole of humanity adopts. The eleven other stories in this collection are “Gray Flannel Armor,” “The Leech,” “Watchbird,” “A Wind Is Rising,” “Morning After,” “The Native Problem,” “Feeding Time,” “Paradise II,” “Double Indemnity,” “Holdout,” “Dawn Invader,” and “The Language of Love.” From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497650720 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 186
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Science fiction tales from “one of the genre's leading humorists” (The New York Times Book Review). In “Pilgrimage to Earth,” on a long-desired trip to the home planet, a young man finds a perfectly developed society and, finally, deep, true love—which, sadly, only lasts for a very limited time before the reset button removes all trace of it. The fourteen other stories in this collection are “All the Things You Are,” “Trap,” “The Body,” “Early Model,” “Disposal Service,” “Human Man’s Burden,” “Fear in the Night,” “Bad Medicine,” “Protection,” “Earth, Air, Fire, and Water,” “Deadhead,” “The Academy,” “Milk Run,” and “The Lifeboat Mutiny.” From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Orb Books ISBN: 1466827343 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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A classic science fiction novel from beloved author Robert Sheckley returns to print in Mindswap. In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781502597588 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical. Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.This volume has the following great stories:Warm, Ask A Foolish Question, Beside Still Waters, Cost of Living, Forever, Keep your ShapeThe Leech, Seventh Victim, Watchbird, Warrior Race, One man's poison, The Perfect Woman
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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"The Status Civilization" by Robert Sheckley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Robert Sheckley Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1473207541 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 150
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Tom Mishkin is piloting another routine supply flight when he hears an unusual noise and gets the distressing news: he's about to be stranded on a backward planet and forced to hike across unknown, and probably hostile, terrain to find a cache of spare parts and get going again. Mishkin's journey introduces him to strange aliens like a five-headed man-eating snake with Mob connections as his trek slowly warps into a metaphysical search for his soul and the meaning of human existence...
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley
Author: Robert Sheckley