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- Sheckley's stories are unfailingly elegant and literate; their mordant humour and sudden plot reversals separate them from the mass of magazine sf stories of the time, for the wit and surprises usually function to make serious points about calamitous aspects of life in the later twentieth century.
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Sheckley's stories are unfailingly elegant and literate; their mordant humour and sudden plot reversals separate them from the mass of magazine sf stories of the time, for the wit and surprises usually function to make serious points about calamitous aspects of life in the later twentieth century.
Mar 12, 2013 · 4.5/5 (collated rating: Very Good) Robert Sheckley’s collection Store of Infinity (1960) contains eight remarkable short stories — three of which are near masterpieces. Sheckley’s visions are satirical, mordant, and replete with vivid imagery conveyed in solid prose.
In many stories Sheckley speculates about alternative (and usually sinister) social orders, of which a good example is the story "A Ticket to Tranai " (which tells of a sort of Utopia designed for human nature as it actually is, which turns out to have terrible drawbacks).
Mar 26, 2020 · Here’s the highlights: Sheckley’s stories are firmly grounded in traditional SFnal tropes: alien worlds, space colonization, near futures, media spectacle, robotics, [computers] and so forth.
Sep 7, 2022 · The first story in the collection Untouched by Human Hands sets the tone for what to expect from Sheckley. “The Monsters” is a story from 1953 that subverts the usual tropes of the genre by telling a first contact story from the aliens perspective.
Mar 30, 2022 · Sheckley suggested a Hamlet quote for the head of the story: “O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” We went out...
This article presents an incomplete list of short stories by Robert Sheckley, arranged alphabetically by title.
