"One of the few acknowledged humorists in SF, and by far the funniest, Sheckley plays with myths the way Mel Brooks plays with classic movies."
-New York Times Book Review
THE SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
"Sheckley has a very vivid and
at times wild imagination, but his characters are shrewd and clever, and
his writing is really fine. If you like something really unusual, whether
or not you care for science fiction, you would thoroughly enjoy this book."-DERBY
LINE, VERMONT"These thirteen tales, untouched even by the hands of anthologists, may remind some of you of the brightest days of 'Unknown Worlds,' and others of Shirley Jackson or John Collier. Some are interplanetary, some supernatural; some chilling, some comic. All are delightfully fresh in concept, development and writing..."
-H. H. HOLMES
CITIZEN
IN SPACE, Sheckley's second collection, presents eleven stories and
a novelette-one of which appears here for the first time. If you have never
read a Sheckley story you will discover the magic of a unique imagination.
If you have met Sheckley before, you will know that the promise of his first
book is now amply fulfilled."No one in recent years has vaulted so promptly into the first rank of science fantasy writers...a wholly individual new talent."
-New York Herald Tribune
THE
SCIENCE FICTION OF ONE MINUTEIS THE NON-FICTION OF THE NEXT
And Robert Sheckley lives that one illuminating minute ahead of the rest of us. He knows the future intimately-from the trouble with a super-powered ship with its own moral views on proper destinations, to the lowdown on the inter-planetary mail-order-bride business. Sheckley is an exciting young talent-an extrapolating philosopher let loose in time and the galaxy. He is sometimes funny, sometimes bloodcurdling, always a little disquieting.
BOLD!
PROPHETIC! Stories about man's bewilderingfuture by a brilliant and disconcerting young talent!
Every instant a tiny bit of today is combusting into a tiny bit of tomorrow. Robert Sheckley knows this. He watches these little changes. He learned that people can be wired for spontaneous romance, that machines can intercept murderers before the thought even crystallizes, that it will be possible to take a vacation in the century of your choice.
THINK HE'S WRONG? THEN YOU'D BETTER READ THESE STORIES!
Stories
of possible futures guaranteed to strain, sprain, or maybe even snap the
most agile imagination.ONE NEUROTIC AMOEBA casually placed can alter the entire course of world history. Robert Sheckley says it's like that tiny pebble that sends ripples to the edge of the lake. And since Sheckley figures absolutely anything can happen, the possible futures he envisions romp buoyantly all the way from wretched to raucous. If you balk and boggle at some of these predictions, think of it this way:
THE FUTURE WON'T JUST HAPPEN-IT WILL SNEAK UP ON YOU A LITTLE AT A TIME
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GALAXIES, BUSTED TECHNOLOGIES, FRANGIBLE PLANETS, INFINITE FRAGMENTSIt takes the courage of a Sheckley to project himself and his astral grappling hook far beyond the loneliest frontiers of human ken. He brings back a rich cargo of bits and pieces for your pleasure, amazement, information-
Now, you, too, may feel, sense, taste, smell, hear, apprehend the bountiful treasure trove of golden shards that float in the cold fastnesses of space...
Pick
your planet. Your galaxy. Your universe. And let Robert Sheckley, that master
of science fiction of the sixties, be your guide. You may find yourself
in a world where people are so numerous that life is a vicious battle for
breathing space. Or in a place inhabited exclusively by creatures straight
out of a Disney Technicolor movie. Or among a race of beings whose greatest
dream is their own violent deaths. Or in a terrifying emptiness where the
mind alone creates its strange realities. These are but a few of the startling
stops in this fantastic voyage to the outer reaches of the imagination
In
this, his latest collection of short stories, Robert Sheckley offers sixteen
bizarre glimpses into the future-sixteen tales to delight, amaze and intrigue
those who know as well as those not yet familiar with his work. Witty and
thought-provoking, each is centered around the foibles, eccentricities and
desires of some very normal people, people like your neighbors, your friends,
perhaps even like yourself. The difference? The time is the future, rules
of logic have been thrown to the wind, and Robert Sheckley's grasp of the
human condition often leaves his readers more than a little disconcerted,
amused and finally lost in thought. 
THE
ROBOT WHO LOOKED LIKE ME brings a dozen of Robert Sheckley's most outrageous
flights of fancy together for the first time in paperback. Inside you'll
find a time traveler who multiplied himself into the millions, a beauty
who outfoxed a computerized singles service, a man who was loved by inanimate
objects, a pair of incredible binoculars, an actor who got caught in a never-ending
western movie, and more marvelous madness from science fiction's wittiest
writer. In short, it's pure, uncut Sheckley, guaranteed to blow you away
with laughter.
Walls
made of hands in a spaceship filled with tentacles. A shooting gallery with
live women for targets. A TV thrill show where the corpses are real. And
a shuddering descent into laughter.THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ROBERT SHECKLEY
TALES BY THE GRAND MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION.
A
deft and comic writer, Robert Sheckley has long been recognized as one of
America's preeminent science fiction authors. Sheckley is unquestionably
at the top of his form with the short story, where he has an uncanny ability
to turn the world inside out, creating a universe almost-but, disturbingly,
not quite-like our own. Reading a Sheckley story is like buying a one-way
ticket to a world with its own fantastic and wacky logic.SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS | OTHER WORKS | SHORT STORIES
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