Captain Pausert, master of the old pirate-chaser Venture, seems to have a knack for selling job-lot cargoes around the fringes of the Empire. He’s so ahead of the game that he has time to rescue three child slaves, only to find out that they are...
First published in 1971 as Ground Zero Man, this novel was revies by the author and published in 1985 as The Peace Machine.It is 1988, and an obscure scientist, Lucas Hutchman, has made a momentous discovery. He can build a neutron...
The invention of a cheap and easy-to-use antigravity harness revolutionises society. Humanity takes to the skies in its millions, with huge resultant problems for governments and police. Virtually all aircraft are grounded, because of the risk of...
First appeared in Galaxy Magazine, 1957/7.A part of Notions: Unlimited collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1960 by Bantam...
This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his...
A man looking for psychotherapy is accidentally sold a Martian therapeutic machine — with unexpected consequences.First published in Galaxy 1956/7The story was published in 1957 by Bantam Books as a part of the Pilgrimage to Earth...
Citizen in Space is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1955 by Ballantine Books (catalogue number 126). It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...
Published in Playboy 1969/12Included into Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? science fiction short stories collection, published in December 1971 by...
Immortality, Inc. is a 1958 science fiction novella by Robert Sheckley, about a fictional process whereby a human's consciousness may be transferred into a brain-dead body. The serialised form (published under the title Time Killer in Galaxy...