Is That What People Do?
A collection of stories.
Contents:
- The Eye of Reality
- Vintage Sheckley
- The Language of Love
- The Accountant
- A Wind Is Rising
- The Robot Who Looked Like Me
- The Mnemone
- Warm
- The Native Problem
- Fishing Season
- Shape ("Keep Your Shape")
- Beside Still Waters
- Silversmith Wishes
- Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide
- Fool's Mate
- Pilgrimage to Earth ("Love, Inc.")
- All the Things You Are
- The Store of the Worlds ("The World of Heart's Desire")
- Seventh Victim
- Cordle to Onion to Carrot
- Is That What People Do?
- The Prize of Peril
- Fear in the Night
- Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
- The Battle
- The Monsters
- The Petrified World
- Uncollected Sheckley:
- Five Minutes Early
- Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension
- The Skag Castle
- The Helping Hand
- The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth
- The Future Lost
- Wild Talents, Inc.
- The Swamp
- The Future of Sex: Speculative Journalism
- The Life of Anybody
- Good-Bye Forever to Mr. Pain
- The Shaggy Average American Man Story
- The Shootout in the Toy Shop
- How Pro Writers Really Write – Or Try To
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Category: Science Fiction, Short stories
Release date: 1984
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) was a Hugo and Nebula nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and comical.
Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.