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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley, 5 Volume set
Introductions By Roger Zelazny, Mike Resnick, Harlan Ellison, Damon Knight, K.W. Jeter
344 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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About the author
Robert Sheckley
1,395 books669 followersOne of science fiction's great humorists, Sheckley was a prolific short story writer beginning in 1952 with titles including "Specialist", "Pilgrimage to Earth", "Warm", "The Prize of Peril", and "Seventh Victim", collected in volumes from Untouched by Human Hands (1954) to Is That What People Do? (1984) and a five-volume set of Collected Stories (1991). His first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958), was followed by The Status Civilization (1960), Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Mindswap (1966), and several others. Sheckley served as fiction editor for Omni magazine from January 1980 through September 1981, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
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December 27, 2025(104/132 read) (# = read)
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book One
(24/24 read) (# = read)
# The Monsters (1953) (UHH)
# Cost of Living (1952) (UHH)
# The Altar (1953) (UHH)
# Shape (1953) (UHH)
# Untouched by Human Hands (1953) (UHH)
# The King's Wishes (1953) (UHH)
# Warm (1953) (UHH)
# The Demons (1953) (UHH)
# Specialist (1953) (UHH)
# Seventh Victim (1953) (UHH)
# Ritual (1953) (UHH)
# Beside Still Waters (1953) (UHH)
# The Mountain Without a Name (1955) (CIS)
# The Accountant (1954) (CIS)
# Hunting Problem (1955) (CIS)
# A Thief in Time (1954) (CIS)
# The Luckiest Man in the World (1955) (CIS)
# Hands Off (1954) (CIS)
# Something for Nothing (1954) (CIS)
# A Ticket to Tranai (1955) (CIS)
# The Battle (1954) (CIS)
# Skulking Permit (1954) (CIS)
# Citizen in Space (1955) (CIS)
# Ask a Foolish Question (1953) (CIS)
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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Two
(27/27 read) (# = read)
# Pilgrimage to Earth (1956) (PTE)
# All the Things You Are (1956) (PTE)
# Trap (1956) (PTE)
# The Body (1956) (PTE)
# Early Model (1956) (PTE)
# Disposal Service (1955) (PTE)
# Human Man's Burden (1956) (PTE)
# Fear in the Night (1952) (PTE)
# Bad Medicine (1956) (PTE)
# Protection (1956) (PTE)
# Earth, Air, Fire and Water (1955) (PTE)
# Deadhead (1955) (PTE)
# The Academy (1954) (PTE)
# Milk Run (1954) (PTE)
# The Lifeboat Mutiny (1955) (PTE)
# Gray Flannel Armor (1957) (NI)
# The Leech (1952) (NI)
# Watchbird (1953) (NI)
# A Wind Is Rising (1957) (NI)
# Morning After (1957) (NI)
# The Language of Love (1957) (NI)
# The Native Problem (1956) (NI)
# Feeding Time (1953) (NI)
# Paradise II (1954) (NI)
# Double Indemnity (1957) (NI)
# Holdout (1957) (NI)
# Dawn Invader (1957) (NI)
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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Three
(25/25 read) (# = read)
# The People Trap (1968) (TPT)
# The Victim from Space (1957) (TPT)
# Shall We Have a Little Talk? (1965) (TPT)
# Restricted Area (1953) (TPT)
# The Odor of Thought (1953) (TPT)
# The Necessary Thing (1955) (TPT)
# Redfern's Labyrinth (1968) (TPT)
# Proof of the Pudding (1952) (TPT)
# The Laxian Key (1954) (TPT)
# The Last Weapon (1953) (TPT)
# Fishing Season (1953) (TPT)
# Dreamworld (1968) (TPT)
# Diplomatic Immunity (1953) (TPT)
# Ghost V (1954) (TPT)
# Prospector's Special (1959) (SOS)
# The Girls and Nugent Miller (1960) (SOS)
# Meeting of the Minds (1960) (SOS)
# Potential (1953) (SOS)
# Fool's Mate (1953) (SOS)
# Subsistence Level (1954) (SOS)
# The Slow Season (1954) (SOS)
# Alone at Last (1957) (SOS)
# Forever (1959) (SOS)
# The Sweeper of Loray (1959) (SOS)
# The Special Exhibit (1953) (SOS)
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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Four
(12/20 read) (# = read)
# The Prize of Peril (1958) (SOI)
# The Humours (1958) (SOI)
# Triplication (1959) (SOI)
# The Minimum Man (1958) (SOI)
# If the Red Slayer (1959) (SOI)
# The Store of the Worlds (1959) (SOI)
# The Gun Without a Bang (1958) (SOI)
# The Deaths of Ben Baxter (1957) (SOI)
# Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1969) (CYF)
# Cordle to Onion to Carrot (1969) (CYF)
# The Petrified World (1968) (CYF)
Game: First Schematic (1971) (CYF)
Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends (1971) (CYF)
The Cruel Equations (1971) (CYF)
The Same to You Doubled (1970) (CYF)
Starting from Scratch (1970) (CYF)
# The Mnemone (1971) (CYF)
Tripout (1971) (CYF)
Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences (1971) (CYF)
Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos with Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang (1971) (CYF)
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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Five
(17/36 read) (# = read)
# The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1973) (TRW)
Slaves of Time (1974) (TRW)
Voices (1973) (TRW)
A Supplicant in Space (1978) (TRW)
Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead (1972) (TRW)
Sneak Previews (1977) (TRW)
# Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (1973) (TRW)
End City (1974) (TRW)
The Never-Ending Western Movie (1976) (TRW)
# What Is Life? (1976) (TRW)
I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (1968) (TRW)
# Is That What People Do? (1978) (TRW)
# Silversmith Wishes (1977) (TRW)
# Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide (1960) (ITWPD)
# Five Minutes Early (1982) (ITWPD)
# Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension (1982) (ITWPD)
# The Helping Hand (1981) (ITWPD)
# The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth (1980) (ITWPD)
# The Future Lost (1980) (ITWPD)
# The Swamp (1981) (ITWPD)
# The Life of Anybody (1984) (ITWPD)
# Goodbye Forever to Mr. Pain (1979) (ITWPD)
# The Shaggy Average American Man Story (1979) (ITWPD)
# Shootout in the Toy Shop (1981) (ITWPD)
The Universal Karmic Clearing House (1986) (UT)
# Sarkanger (1986) (DI)
At the Conference of the Birds (1988) (DI)
Love Song from the Stars (1989) (DI)
Divine Intervention (1988) (DI)
The Destruction of Atlantis (1989) (DI)
The Eye of Reality (1982) (DI)
There Will Be No War After This One (1991) (DI)
Wormworld (1991) (DI)
Robotvendor Rex (1986) (DI)
Message from Hell (1988) (DI)
Dial-a-Death (1987) (DI)
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Original Collections:
# (UHH) = Untouched by Human Hands (1954)
# (CIS) = Citizen in Space (1955)
# (PTE) = Pilgrimage to Earth (1957)
# (NI) = Notions: Unlimited (1960)
# (SOI) = Store of Infinity (1960)
# (SOS) = Shards of Space (1962)
# (TPT) = The People Trap (1968)
(CYF) = Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1971)
(TRW) = The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
# (ITWPD) = Is That What People Do? (1984)
(UT) = Uncanny Tales (2003)
(DI) = Divine Intervention (2014)
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book One
(24/24 read) (# = read)
# The Monsters (1953) (UHH)
# Cost of Living (1952) (UHH)
# The Altar (1953) (UHH)
# Shape (1953) (UHH)
# Untouched by Human Hands (1953) (UHH)
# The King's Wishes (1953) (UHH)
# Warm (1953) (UHH)
# The Demons (1953) (UHH)
# Specialist (1953) (UHH)
# Seventh Victim (1953) (UHH)
# Ritual (1953) (UHH)
# Beside Still Waters (1953) (UHH)
# The Mountain Without a Name (1955) (CIS)
# The Accountant (1954) (CIS)
# Hunting Problem (1955) (CIS)
# A Thief in Time (1954) (CIS)
# The Luckiest Man in the World (1955) (CIS)
# Hands Off (1954) (CIS)
# Something for Nothing (1954) (CIS)
# A Ticket to Tranai (1955) (CIS)
# The Battle (1954) (CIS)
# Skulking Permit (1954) (CIS)
# Citizen in Space (1955) (CIS)
# Ask a Foolish Question (1953) (CIS)
---------
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Two
(27/27 read) (# = read)
# Pilgrimage to Earth (1956) (PTE)
# All the Things You Are (1956) (PTE)
# Trap (1956) (PTE)
# The Body (1956) (PTE)
# Early Model (1956) (PTE)
# Disposal Service (1955) (PTE)
# Human Man's Burden (1956) (PTE)
# Fear in the Night (1952) (PTE)
# Bad Medicine (1956) (PTE)
# Protection (1956) (PTE)
# Earth, Air, Fire and Water (1955) (PTE)
# Deadhead (1955) (PTE)
# The Academy (1954) (PTE)
# Milk Run (1954) (PTE)
# The Lifeboat Mutiny (1955) (PTE)
# Gray Flannel Armor (1957) (NI)
# The Leech (1952) (NI)
# Watchbird (1953) (NI)
# A Wind Is Rising (1957) (NI)
# Morning After (1957) (NI)
# The Language of Love (1957) (NI)
# The Native Problem (1956) (NI)
# Feeding Time (1953) (NI)
# Paradise II (1954) (NI)
# Double Indemnity (1957) (NI)
# Holdout (1957) (NI)
# Dawn Invader (1957) (NI)
---------
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Three
(25/25 read) (# = read)
# The People Trap (1968) (TPT)
# The Victim from Space (1957) (TPT)
# Shall We Have a Little Talk? (1965) (TPT)
# Restricted Area (1953) (TPT)
# The Odor of Thought (1953) (TPT)
# The Necessary Thing (1955) (TPT)
# Redfern's Labyrinth (1968) (TPT)
# Proof of the Pudding (1952) (TPT)
# The Laxian Key (1954) (TPT)
# The Last Weapon (1953) (TPT)
# Fishing Season (1953) (TPT)
# Dreamworld (1968) (TPT)
# Diplomatic Immunity (1953) (TPT)
# Ghost V (1954) (TPT)
# Prospector's Special (1959) (SOS)
# The Girls and Nugent Miller (1960) (SOS)
# Meeting of the Minds (1960) (SOS)
# Potential (1953) (SOS)
# Fool's Mate (1953) (SOS)
# Subsistence Level (1954) (SOS)
# The Slow Season (1954) (SOS)
# Alone at Last (1957) (SOS)
# Forever (1959) (SOS)
# The Sweeper of Loray (1959) (SOS)
# The Special Exhibit (1953) (SOS)
---------
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Four
(12/20 read) (# = read)
# The Prize of Peril (1958) (SOI)
# The Humours (1958) (SOI)
# Triplication (1959) (SOI)
# The Minimum Man (1958) (SOI)
# If the Red Slayer (1959) (SOI)
# The Store of the Worlds (1959) (SOI)
# The Gun Without a Bang (1958) (SOI)
# The Deaths of Ben Baxter (1957) (SOI)
# Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1969) (CYF)
# Cordle to Onion to Carrot (1969) (CYF)
# The Petrified World (1968) (CYF)
Game: First Schematic (1971) (CYF)
Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends (1971) (CYF)
The Cruel Equations (1971) (CYF)
The Same to You Doubled (1970) (CYF)
Starting from Scratch (1970) (CYF)
# The Mnemone (1971) (CYF)
Tripout (1971) (CYF)
Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences (1971) (CYF)
Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos with Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang (1971) (CYF)
-------
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Five
(17/36 read) (# = read)
# The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1973) (TRW)
Slaves of Time (1974) (TRW)
Voices (1973) (TRW)
A Supplicant in Space (1978) (TRW)
Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead (1972) (TRW)
Sneak Previews (1977) (TRW)
# Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (1973) (TRW)
End City (1974) (TRW)
The Never-Ending Western Movie (1976) (TRW)
# What Is Life? (1976) (TRW)
I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (1968) (TRW)
# Is That What People Do? (1978) (TRW)
# Silversmith Wishes (1977) (TRW)
# Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide (1960) (ITWPD)
# Five Minutes Early (1982) (ITWPD)
# Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension (1982) (ITWPD)
# The Helping Hand (1981) (ITWPD)
# The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth (1980) (ITWPD)
# The Future Lost (1980) (ITWPD)
# The Swamp (1981) (ITWPD)
# The Life of Anybody (1984) (ITWPD)
# Goodbye Forever to Mr. Pain (1979) (ITWPD)
# The Shaggy Average American Man Story (1979) (ITWPD)
# Shootout in the Toy Shop (1981) (ITWPD)
The Universal Karmic Clearing House (1986) (UT)
# Sarkanger (1986) (DI)
At the Conference of the Birds (1988) (DI)
Love Song from the Stars (1989) (DI)
Divine Intervention (1988) (DI)
The Destruction of Atlantis (1989) (DI)
The Eye of Reality (1982) (DI)
There Will Be No War After This One (1991) (DI)
Wormworld (1991) (DI)
Robotvendor Rex (1986) (DI)
Message from Hell (1988) (DI)
Dial-a-Death (1987) (DI)
-------------
Original Collections:
# (UHH) = Untouched by Human Hands (1954)
# (CIS) = Citizen in Space (1955)
# (PTE) = Pilgrimage to Earth (1957)
# (NI) = Notions: Unlimited (1960)
# (SOI) = Store of Infinity (1960)
# (SOS) = Shards of Space (1962)
# (TPT) = The People Trap (1968)
(CYF) = Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1971)
(TRW) = The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
# (ITWPD) = Is That What People Do? (1984)
(UT) = Uncanny Tales (2003)
(DI) = Divine Intervention (2014)
May 25, 2020
Nothing is better for a lover of satire than having the Complete Works of Robert Sheckley. I have the paperback set. If anyone wants to sell the hardcover set, let me know. martinolson888@gmail.com
September 6, 2024
Just finished reading book 4.
May 13, 2013
Listened to "Divine Intervention".
December 22, 2014
volume 1-4 done
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