Store of the Worlds
The Stories of Robert Sheckley
New York : New York Review Books, [2012]
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An NYRB Classics Original
Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of Sheckley's deadpan farces, proving once again that he belongs beside such mordant critics of contemporary mores as Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and Thomas Pynchon.
Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of Sheckley's deadpan farces, proving once again that he belongs beside such mordant critics of contemporary mores as Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and Thomas Pynchon.
Series: New York Review Books classics.
Contents:
Introduction -- The monsters -- Seventh victim -- Shape -- Specialist -- Warm -- Watchbird -- The accountant -- Paradise II -- All the things you are -- Protection -- The native problem -- Pilgrimage to earth -- A wind is rising -- Dawn invader -- Double indemnity -- Holdout -- The language of love -- Morning after -- If the red slayer -- The shore of the worlds -- Shall we have a little talk? -- Cordle to onion to carrot -- The people trap -- Can you feel anything when i do this? -- Is that what people do? -- Beside still waters.
ISBN:
9781590175088
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