“If the Marx Brothers had been literary fantasists, they would have been Robert Sheckley.” —Harlan Ellison In “The Robot Who Looked Like Me, ” a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other—by having look-alike robots made to do the job—who then run away together. The twelve other stories in this collection are “Slaves of Time, ” “Voices, ” “A Supplicant in Space, ” “Sneak Previews, ” “Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, John Westerly Dead, ” “Welcome to the Standard Nightmare, ” “The Never-Ending Western Movie, ” “What Is Life?”, “I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg, ” “Is That What People Do?”, “Silversmith Wishes, ” and “End City.” 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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