Robert Sheckley Uncanny Tales

Annotation

This collection focuses on Sheckley's horror stories. The sixteen stories included are ';A Trick Worth Two of That,' ';The Mind-Slaves of Manitori,' ';Pandora's BoxOpen with Care,' ';The Dream of Misunderstanding,' ';Magic, Maples, and Maryanne,' ';The New Horla,' ';The City of the Dead,' ';The Quijote Robot,' ';Emissary from a Green and Yellow World,' ';The Universal Karmic Clearing House,' ';Deep Blue Sleep,' ';The Day the Aliens Came,' ';Dukakis and the Aliens,' ';Mirror Games,' ';Sightseeing, 2179,' and ';Agamemnon's Run.'From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to theNew York Times, was ';a precursor to Douglas Adams.'