Robert Sheckley, Vidmer

Keep Your Shape

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explore the boundless realms of imagination with Robert Sheckley's "Keep Your Shape," a captivating collection of science fiction short stories that delve into the unknown. Journey to distant planets and encounter extraterrestrial beings in tales brimming with adventure and the thrill of space travel. Sheckley, a master of the genre, presents intriguing scenarios of alien contact, inviting readers to contemplate humanity's place in the vast cosmos. These stories, celebrated for their wit and inventive plots, explore the potential wonders and perils that await beyond our world. Prepare to be transported to futures both wondrous and unsettling, where the only limit is the reach of human (and alien) ingenuity. "Keep Your Shape" offers timeless escapism for all who dream of the stars. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 20
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 1mm
• Gewicht: 45g
• ISBN-13: 9781023190855
• ISBN-10: 1023190850
• Artikelnr.: 74109701

Autorenporträt

Robert Sheckley (1928 - 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Sheckley was a prolific and versatile writer. His works include not only original short stories and novels, but also TV series episodes (Captain Video), novelizations of works by others, stories in shared universes such as Heroes in Hell and collaborations with other writers. He was best known for his several hundred short stories, which he published in book form as well as individually. In many stories Sheckley speculates about alternative (and usually sinister) social orders, of which a good example is the story "A Ticket to Tranai" (which tells of a sort of Utopia designed for human nature as it actually is, which turns out to have terrible drawbacks). Sheckley's early stories include the far future AAA Ace detective agency series. In these tales, the two partners face unusual problems often related to human incompetence or laziness. In the 1990s, Sheckley wrote a series of three mystery novels featuring detective Hob Draconian, as well as novels set in the worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Alien. Before his death Sheckley had been commissioned to write an original novel based on the TV series The Prisoner for Powys Media, but died before completing the manuscript.