Uncanny Tales
His career has spanned more than 40 years, and run the gamut from mind-bending science fiction to celebrated fantastic parody, and everything in between. Seventeen stories covering Sheckley's output from his beginnings to his most recent work forms this brand-new collection. Uncanny Tales is the best short work from a speculative fiction master, with stories that explore every aspect of our universe.
Contents:
- Introduction
- A Trick Worth Two of That
- The Mind-Slaves of Manitori
- Pandora’s Box—Open 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
- Agamemnon’s Run
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.