Author: Robert Sheckley
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497649889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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,” “Specialist,” “Ritual,” and “Beside Still Waters.” 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.”
Untouched by Human Hands
Author: Robert Sheckley
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497649889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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,” “Specialist,” “Ritual,” and “Beside Still Waters.” 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.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497649889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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,” “Specialist,” “Ritual,” and “Beside Still Waters.” 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.”
Untouched by Human Hands
Author: Robert Sheckley
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441846801
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441846801
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Untouched by human hands
Author: Robert Sheckley
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Untouched by Human Hands
Author: Robert Sheckley
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Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Pilgrimage to Earth
Author: Robert Sheckley
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497650720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Science fiction tales from “one of the genre's leading humorists” (The New York Times Book Review). In “Pilgrimage to Earth,” on a long-desired trip to the home planet, a young man finds a perfectly developed society and, finally, deep, true love—which, sadly, only lasts for a very limited time before the reset button removes all trace of it. The fourteen other stories in this collection are “All the Things You Are,” “Trap,” “The Body,” “Early Model,” “Disposal Service,” “Human Man’s Burden,” “Fear in the Night,” “Bad Medicine,” “Protection,” “Earth, Air, Fire, and Water,” “Deadhead,” “The Academy,” “Milk Run,” and “The Lifeboat Mutiny.” 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.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497650720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Science fiction tales from “one of the genre's leading humorists” (The New York Times Book Review). In “Pilgrimage to Earth,” on a long-desired trip to the home planet, a young man finds a perfectly developed society and, finally, deep, true love—which, sadly, only lasts for a very limited time before the reset button removes all trace of it. The fourteen other stories in this collection are “All the Things You Are,” “Trap,” “The Body,” “Early Model,” “Disposal Service,” “Human Man’s Burden,” “Fear in the Night,” “Bad Medicine,” “Protection,” “Earth, Air, Fire, and Water,” “Deadhead,” “The Academy,” “Milk Run,” and “The Lifeboat Mutiny.” 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.”
Power
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Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Untouched by Human Hands
Author: James Warren MacCalman
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Environmentalism
Author: David Pepper
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415206235
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415206235
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Short Story Index
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Commercial West
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1374
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1374
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