A treasury of fiction from “one of SF’s all-time masters of the humorous or satirical short story” (Booklist). In “The Cruel Equations, ” a planetary explorer finds out how lethal it can be when a robot guard has been designed to do too perfect a job. The fifteen other stories in this collection are “Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?”, “Cordle to Onion to Carrot, ” “The Petrified World, ” “Game: First Schematic, ” “Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends, ” “The Same to You Doubled, ” “Starting From Scratch, ” “The Mnemone, ” “Tripout, ” “Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences, ” “Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos With Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang, ” “Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter, ” “Aspects of Langranak, ” “Plague Circuit, ” and “Tailpipe to Disaster.” 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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