"YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY...AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES At least, that's what you do if your name is Tom Mishkin, and your spaceship is suddenly grounded by a mechanical malfunction, and you are forced to trek across an alien planet to get the needed...
First published in Playboy 1956/9; also known as "Love, Incorporated".Part of Pilgrimage to Earth collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley published in 1957 by Bantam...
First published in Galaxy, April 1956.Appeared in Pilgrimage to Earth collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley published in 1957 by Bantam...
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958Published in Store of Infinity collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley in 1960 by Bantam...
Lionel Salkind was a rising musical star. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in government work that he couldn’t talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying crashed. When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had...
In the 23rd century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars. When a threat to all life arises from non-living cyborgs, suddenly the peculiar human virtues of valor and stubbornness...
Banned from interstellar travel for their aggressiveness, humans have one last chance to regain the stars, provided they can solve the mystery of the disappearance of a pair of alien ships lost somewhere in the unknown part of space known as the...
Set in the year 2375, the novel it follows Tom Rice, a young archaeologist attached to a two-year dig on the planet of Highby V. He is searching for artifacts belonging to a long-lost and ancient race known simply as The High Ones. Throughout...
After a recurrence of the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs and a resulting Long Winter of 700,000 years, the eventual New Springtime sees only two of the far future Earth’s original Six Peoples emerge from their deep cocoons: the...