Native American Heritage Month

This Way to the Egress: IMMORTALITY, INC. by Robert Sheckley

Executive summary: Immortality, Inc., Sheckley’s first novel, is a fast-moving tour of wonders and horrors, well worth reading, even if its individual parts are greater than the novel as a whole.

A man's face surveys a chaotic image-scape: the supine body of a man with futuristic devices attached to his head, a ghostly image of a man in the forground on the right; in the right background, the silhouette of a man in some kind of tunnel, with another manlike figure near him. A bubble containing the angry face of a man with a dark bird overhead is seen at the right edge of the image, surmounting a chaotic columns of bubbles and flashes. A network of lines, like root networks or nural branches, connects the various zones of the imagescape. Wally Wood‘s illustration for part 1 of the serial version of Sheckley’s novel

The novel goes by a number of different names. It originally appeared as a Galaxy serial (Oct. 1958-Feb. 1959). Then-editor Horace Gold never saw a title he didn’t want to change, so that version was called (as you see a...

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Published on July 08, 2025 20:20
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