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Store of the Worlds

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175085
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Store of the Worlds written by Robert Sheckley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Pilgrimage to Earth

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497650720
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage to Earth written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Dimensions of Sheckley

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Nesfa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886778290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (782 download)

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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

The Status Civilization

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Status Civilization written by Robert Sheckley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Mindswap

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765315601
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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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.

Notions: Unlimited

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497650577
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Notions: Unlimited written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Watchbird

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528781783
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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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.

Options

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473207541
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Options written by Robert Sheckley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Alien Harvest

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 9780553564419
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (644 download)

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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.

Victim Prime

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473207436
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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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.

Untouched by Human Hands

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Untouched by Human Hands written by Robert Sheckley and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uncanny Tales

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497638127
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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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.”

Ask a Foolish Question

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168299757X
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Ask a Foolish Question written by Robert Sheckley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.

Can You Feel Anything when I Do This?

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780575014732
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)

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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:

Bad Medicine

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789354544729
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Bad Medicine written by Robert Sheckley and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Robert Sheckley

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612870403
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)

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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.

The People Trap

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497650518
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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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.”