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Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Nesfa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886778290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Dimensions of Sheckley written by Robert Sheckley and published by Nesfa Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Udvalgte science fiction tekster af Robert Scheckley
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480496901
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Dimension of Miracles written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hapless Earthling must find his way home through a universe of absurdities in this science fiction romp from a Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated master. New York civil servant Thomas Carmody has never been particularly lucky. Imagine his surprise when he discovers he’s won the grand prize in an Intergalactic Lottery he had no idea he’d entered. Whisked far away to Galactic Central to claim his award, he has two immediate, equally troubling revelations. Not only does his Prize—a talkative device that changes shape—serve no practical purpose whatsoever, but now he’s expected to find his own way back to Earth. Of course, Carmody has no idea where, when, or even which universe he’s been stranded in. Ignoring the worthless advice and opinions of his increasingly annoying Prize, he embarks on a bizarre odyssey that takes him from alternate Earth to alternate Earth, bringing him into close contact with all manner of strangeness—and even with a bored God Almighty Himself. But Carmody’s sweepstakes “windfall” comes with yet another unexpected drawback. Suddenly, an unrelenting predator is on his tail, determined to eliminate the “glitch” wandering lost through numerous dimensions where he does not belong. A full decade before Douglas Adams devised TheHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Robert Sheckley created his Dimension of Miracles, launching one luckless protagonist on a hilarious journey across an alien universe of intelligent dinosaurs and mothering sentient towns. Fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Roger Zelazny, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and Harry Harrison’s Bill the Galactic Hero will delight in Sheckley’s biting and brilliant Alice in Wonderland–like outer space adventure.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765315601
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Mindswap written by Robert Sheckley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528781783
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Watchbird written by Robert Sheckley and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley, a Hugo and Nebula Award nominated author. The story deals with the subject of artificial intelligence and the questions that arise from allowing them to have the power to decide right from wrong. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Sheckley. Each publication is complete with a short introduction to the history of science fiction.
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466822732
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Bill, the Galactic Hero written by Harry Harrison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The funniest science fiction book ever written” is a space military parody about a hapless soldier from a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee (Terry Pratchett, New York Times–bestselling author of the Discworld novels). It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn’t interested in honour—he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse . . . Praise for Harry Harrison “A perfectly grand storyteller.” —David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Star Tide Rising “Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison, a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 9780553564419
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Alien Harvest written by Robert Sheckley and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off. Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they're searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive. The only problem is that the fortune lies on the universe's most godforsaken planet. And once they get their hands on it, the'll have to fight their way past the aliens to get off the planet alive.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473207436
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Victim Prime written by Robert Sheckley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2092, the world's ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal, to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation which has turned public murder, among willing competitors, into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and then the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff. His neighbours' lives, as well as his own, hang in the balance.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497638127
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Uncanny Tales written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author demonstrates his incredible versatility in this career-spanning story collection that ranges from sci-fi to supernatural horror. Known for science fiction that combined brilliant speculation with sharp satirical wit, Robert Scheckley was also capable of conjuring chills and inventing fantastical new worlds. Uncanny Tales presents sixteen of the beloved author’s best stories spanning a range of genres from across his long career. Unforgettable early works are paired with some of his final pieces of fiction, each with a brief introduction by the author. The sixteen stories included are “A Trick Worth Two of That,” “The Mind-Slaves of Manitori,” “Pandora’s Box—Open with Care,” “The Dream of Misunderstanding,” “Magic, Maples, and Maryanne,” “The New Horla,” “The City of the Dead,” “The Quijote Robot,” “Emissary from a Green and Yellow World,” “The Universal Karmic Clearing House,” “Deep Blue Sleep,” “The Day the Aliens Came,” “Dukakis and the Aliens,” “Mirror Games,” “Sightseeing, 2179,” and “Agamemnon’s Run.”
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612870403
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Robert Sheckley written by Robert Sheckley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armchair Fiction features the best in classic classic science fiction short story collections. "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. Three" features the works of Robert Sheckley. He was born in New York in 1931 and passed away in 2005. Most of his life was spent concocting brilliant pieces of imaginative mind fodder. What would the perfect woman look like? He pondered what, if anything, would a man be able to eat on a distant planet? Would the end-all to financial worry and violence bring man the utopia he has always searched for? Unlock the answers to these questions and many more with this unmatched collection of Robert Sheckley stories...just waiting to be devoured.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480496782
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Minotaur Maze written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minotaur Maze is Robert Sheckley’s modern take on the myth of the Minotaur. It is a tour de force of imagination, fantasy, and creative confusion. Through brief chapters running from “How Theseus Got His First Mintoauring Job” to “I Hate to Blame Daedalus for Everything,” “The Attack of the Self Pity Plant,” “Daedalus Dispenses with Causality,” and finally, “Falling Through the Story,” we travel a maze as lethally complicated as the Minotaur’s and arrive at the end breathless with wonder, surprise, and laughter. Sheckley, a master of science fiction, has been called “a precursor to Douglas Adams” by the New York Times.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480496723
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Immortality Inc. written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man wakes up after a fatal car accident—in someone else’s body—in this ahead-of-its-time Hugo Award–nominated classic. Thomas Blaine remembered the car accident that killed him—and then he woke up in the hospital. A nurse told him where he was. “You’d call it being in the future.” A future where bodies are sold to the highest bidder as new homes for the minds of the rich, who are greedy for more life when their own bodies wear out or are damaged. Suddenly, keeping body and soul together has taken on a new, and very sinister, meaning. 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 : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book If at Faust You Don't Succeed written by Roger Zelazny and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varied characters, including Dr. Johann Faust, are caught up in the contest between the forces of Good and Evil for control of the universe.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780575014732
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Can You Feel Anything when I Do This? written by Robert Sheckley and published by Orion. This book was released on 1972 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : N E S F A Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886778603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (786 download)
Download or read book The Masque of Manana written by Robert Sheckley and published by N E S F A Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 45 pieces in this stellar collection, though they include some soberer entries (e.g., "A Wind Is Rising"), make it clear that Sheckley is one of sf's all-time masters of the humorous or satirical short story.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781434470058
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Monsters and Other Science Fiction Tales written by Robert Sheckley and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten science fiction stories by master Robert Sheckley! Here are "The Monsters," "Cost of Living," "The Demons," Specialist," and many more.
Author : Alisa Sheckley
Publisher : Del Rey Books
ISBN 13 : 0345505883
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Moonburn written by Alisa Sheckley and published by Del Rey Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veterinarian--and werewolf--Abra Barrow, starting a new life in the small town of Northside, finds her abilities taking a strange turn when she starts losing her temper and her inhibitions in broad daylight, releasing the beast in all the men around her. Original.
Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497650518
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The People Trap written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of witty science fiction including a Nebula Award–nominated story. In “Diplomatic Immunity,” what happens when an alien ambassador arrives, telling the residents of Earth that they will be joining a galactic union whether they like it or not—and the ambassador is unkillable? The thirteen other stories in this collection are “The People Trap,” “The Victim from Space,” “Shall We Have a Little Talk?”, “Restricted Area,” “The Odor of Thought,” “The Necessary Thing,” “Redfern’s Labyrinth,” “Proof of the Pudding,” “The Laxian Key,” “The Last Weapon,” “Fishing Season,” “Dreamworld,” and “Ghost V.” 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.”
