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  • WARRIOR RACE AND THREE MORE STORIES
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    WARRIOR RACE AND THREE MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Robert Sheckley: "Warrior Race", "One Man's Poison", "Keep Your Shape", and "Proof Of The Pudding". ...

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  • MEETING OF THE MINDS AND THREE MORE STORIES
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    MEETING OF THE MINDS AND THREE MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Robert Sheckley: "Meeting Of The Minds", "Death Wish", "Cost Of Living", and "The Hour Of Battle. ...

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  • BAD MEDICINE AND TWO MORE STORIES
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    BAD MEDICINE AND TWO MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Robert Sheckley: "Bad Medicine", "Watchbird", and "Accept No Substitutes". ...

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  • THE STATUS CIVILIZATION
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    THE STATUS CIVILIZATION
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    The Status Civilization is a science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley, first published in 1960. The story is set in a future society where crime and punishment are quite different from our contemporary understanding. The novel follows the journey of Will Barrent, a man who wakes up with no memory and is informed that he is a criminal who has been convicted of a terrible crime. ...

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  • THE SWEEPER OF LORAY AND THREE MORE STORIES
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    THE SWEEPER OF LORAY AND THREE MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Robert Sheckley: "The Sweeper Of Loray", "The Leech", "Prospector's Special", and "Forever". ...

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  • DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY AND FOUR MORE STORIES
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    DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Robert Sheckley: "Diplomatic Immunity", "Writing Class", "Beside Still Waters", "Warm", and "Ask A Foolish Question". ...

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  • THE STATUS CIVILIZATION
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    THE STATUS CIVILIZATION
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    The Status Civilization is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Sheckley, first published in 1960. The Status Civilization concerns Will Barrent, a man who finds himself, without memory of any crime or, indeed, of his previous life, being shipped across space to the planet Omega. Omega, used to imprison extreme offenders, has a hierarchical society of extreme bruta...

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  • BESIDE STILL WATERS AND FOUR MORE STORIES
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    BESIDE STILL WATERS AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    Five Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Beside Still Waters", "Bad Medicine", "Cost of Living", "Keep Your Shape", and "Warm", all by Robert Sheckley. ...

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  • THE HOUR OF BATTLE AND FOUR MORE STORIES
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    THE HOUR OF BATTLE AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    Five Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "The Hour of Battle", "Meeting of the Minds", "Prospector's Special", "Proof of the Pudding", and "Diplomatic Immunity", all by Robert Sheckley. ...

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  • SHARDS OF SPACE
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    SHARDS OF SPACE
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    The classic sci-fi story collection features eleven tales of outer space adventure from one of the genre's greatest talents—"a precursor to Douglas Adams" ( The New York Times).   In "Fool's Mate," a stalemate in deep space is broken by a crazy man and a set of fake orders. A new longevity drug may lead to an untimely end for its inventor in "Forever." And in "Prospector's Spec...

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  • THE ROBOT WHO LOOKED LIKE ME
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    THE ROBOT WHO LOOKED LIKE ME
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    "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 Sup...

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  • UNCANNY TALES
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    UNCANNY TALES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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 a...

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  • STORE OF INFINITY
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    STORE OF INFINITY
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    In "The Prize of Peril," everyone lives on . . . because when someone is about to die, the emergency squad is always there to bring that person back—whether he or she wants it or not. The seven other stories in this collection are "The Humours," "Triplication," "The Minimum Man," "If the Red Slayer," "The Store of the Worlds," "The Gun Without a Bang," and "The Deaths of Ben Ba...

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  • IS THAT WHAT PEOPLE DO?
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    IS THAT WHAT PEOPLE DO?
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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 Acco...

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  • CAN YOU FEEL ANYTHING WHEN I DO THIS?
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    CAN YOU FEEL ANYTHING WHEN I DO THIS?
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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 P...

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  • DIVINE INTERVENTION
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    DIVINE INTERVENTION
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    This volume contains eleven stories not previously collected together and not included in any of the other classic Sheckley compendiums published by Open Road. In "Sarkanger," Gregor and Arnold of the AAA Ace Interplanetary Decontamination Corporation take on an extermination job on Sarkan. Things get surprisingly complicated when the target vermin start arguing about who shoul...

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  • UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS
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    UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    People hunt and kill one another as public entertainment and to win prizes in "Seventh Victim," the short version of Sheckley's novel  The 10th Victim, which was made into a movie. The twelve other stories in this collection are "The Monsters," "Cost of Living," "The Altar," "Shape," "The Impacted Man," "Untouched by Human Hands," "The King's Wishes," "Warm," "The Demons," "Spe...

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  • CITIZEN IN SPACE
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    CITIZEN IN SPACE
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    Marvin Goodman thinks he has discovered an unknown paradise and buys "A Ticket to Tranai." What starts as Utopia ends up becoming a death trap. The eleven other stories included in this collection are "The Mountain Without a Name," "The Accountant," "Hunting Problem," "A Thief in Time," "The Luckiest Man in the World," "Hands Off," "Something for Nothing," "The Battle," "Skulki...

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  • NOTIONS: UNLIMITED
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    NOTIONS: UNLIMITED
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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," "D...

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  • THE PEOPLE TRAP
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    THE PEOPLE TRAP
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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...

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  • DRAMOCLES
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    DRAMOCLES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    An ordinary king finds himself on an extraordinary quest in this intergalactic soap opera by the acclaimed sci-fi author and "precursor to Douglas Adams" ( The New York Times).   Dramocles, an ordinary king on an ordinary planet, finds himself thrust into an adventure that combines soap opera, Greek tragedy, and Shakespearean drama as he unwillingly—and disastrously—seeks to fu...

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  • THE JOURNEY OF JOENES
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    THE JOURNEY OF JOENES
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    The Journey of Joenes, also published as Journey Beyond Tomorrow, tells the tale of a picaresque journey through an imagined future taken by a naive and innocent man unprepared for the wonders and oddities he encounters. Sheckley examines the present through the distorting lens of a future wonderfully skewed from, and yet darkly, hilariously similar to, our own world. From the ...

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  • IMMORTALITY INC.
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    IMMORTALITY INC.
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    A man wakes up after a fatal car accident—in someone else's body—in this ahead-of-its-time Hugo Award–nominated classic. Thomas Blaine remembered the car accident that killed him—and then he woke up in the hospital. A nurse told him where he was. "You'd call it being in the future." A future where bodies are sold to the highest bidder as new homes for the minds of the rich, who...

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  • THE GAME OF X
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    THE GAME OF X
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    All secret agents need to look out for William Nye, now known as Agent X. His recruitment was simple and his legend is brilliant but unearned. Somehow, he thinks he's the best there is, and we all know how pride goeth before a fall. The master of SF hilarity and biting social satire creates a spy world that has gathered praise from the greats of the genre.   From the very begin...

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  • HUNTER/VICTIM
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    HUNTER/VICTIM
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    Take a look at a dark, deadly future where the game is hunting and the result is killing, human to human, with status, money, power, and sex as the prizes. The operation runs underground and Frank Blackwell is a new recruit who is destined to change the game and turn it into legitimate popular entertainment for the masses. From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley ...

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  • MINOTAUR MAZE
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    MINOTAUR MAZE
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    Minotaur Maze is Robert Sheckley's modern take on the myth of the Minotaur. It is a tour de force of imagination, fantasy, and creative confusion. Through brief chapters running from "How Theseus Got His First Mintoauring Job" to "I Hate to Blame Daedalus for Everything," "The Attack of the Self Pity Plant," "Daedalus Dispenses with Causality," and finally, "Falling Through the...

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  • OPTIONS
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    OPTIONS
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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 connec...

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  • THE 10TH VICTIM
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    THE 10TH VICTIM
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    It's the twenty-first century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blond, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill one another for sport and for the entertainment of the masses—until something od...

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  • VICTIM PRIME
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    VICTIM PRIME
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    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...

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  • WHITE DEATH
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    WHITE DEATH
    ROBERT SHECKLEY
    One of the best futurist writers ever imagines an international detective—a professional risk taker working outside government, law, and order—and takes him on an adventure to what may as well be an alien planet as he goes on a mission into deepest Iran in search of the black opium of Baluchistan.    From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans,...

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