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...
"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...