![]() It hasn’t been printed by a major publishing house for some time, but it’s one of the gems hidden away in the Project Gutenberg stash (which also has a number of Sheckley’s short stories), and Prologue Books digitized it as well.Īce Double – 1979 – David Bergen. My edition is a fake Ace “double” with only one cover, bound with Sheckley’s Notions: Unlimited, one of his great collections. For book publication it gained a better title. Gold didn’t buy it for Galaxy (my guess, his ailing health) but it’s his loss. The Status Civilization was originally the novella “Omega” in Cele Goldsmith-Lalli’s Amazing Stories in 1960 I’m not sure why H.L. It’s good that the NYRB is helping to bring his fiction back to the limelight, because at his best Sheckley had few peers in the genre. Alas, despite his presence in the field-over a dozen solid novels and several hundred shorter works-Sheckley is a forgotten author today. That was the kind of social science fiction Galaxy thrived on, and Sheckley provided it in spades, along with contemporaries like William Tenn and Damon Knight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for his short stories (look into the collection The Store of The Worlds, brought to you by the NYRB), Sheckley was a mainstay in Galaxy magazine who focused on cunning social satire hidden under often hilarious and always witty SF. Robert Sheckley is an author you’ll probably see a lot more of on here in the coming months. ![]()
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