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...
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Published in Playboy 1969/12Included into Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? science fiction short stories collection, published in December 1971 by...
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...
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...