More than three dozen of the best and most popular stories by the acknowledged master of the short science fiction story. The thirty-nine works contained in this volume—twenty-six from the author’s ten other Open Road collections, plus thirteen additional pieces unique to this volume—include these vintage Sheckley stories: “The Eye of Reality, ” “The Language of Love, ” “The Accountant, ” “A Wind Is Rising, ” “The Robot Who Looked Like Me, ” “The Mnemone, ” “Warm, ” “The Native Problem, ” “Fishing Season, ” “Shape, ” “Beside Still Waters, ” “Silversmith Wishes, ” “Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide, ” “Fool’s Mate, ” “Pilgrimage to Earth, ” “All the Things You Are, ” “The Store of the Worlds, ” “Seventh Victim, ” “Cordle to Onion to Carrot, ” “Is That What People Do?”, “The Prize of Peril, ” “Fear in the Night, ” “Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?”, “The Battle, ” “The Monsters, ” and “The Petrified World.”This volume also includes the following uncollected Sheckley tales: “Five Minutes Early, ” “Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension, ” “The Skag Castle, ” “The Helping Hand, ” “The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth, ” “The Future Lost, ” “Wild Talents, Inc., ” “The Swamp, ” “The Future of Sex: Speculative Journalism, ” “The Life of Anybody, ” “Goodbye Forever to Mr. Pain, ” “The Shaggy Average American Man Story, ” “Shootout in the Toy Shop, ” and “How Pro Writers Really Write—or Try To.”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.”
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