Машина желаний

by Robert Sheckley

Shekli umeet i nasmeshit - ne zrja ego nazyvajut metrom fantasticheskoj jumoristiki, - i pri etom priglashaet chitatelja poshevelit mozgami, v chem, kstati, i zakljuchaetsja odna iz samykh vazhnykh zadach ljuboj normalnoj zastavit cheloveka zadumatsja, uvlech chitatelja myslju. Takoe sochetanie umnogo i smeshnogo, takaja universalnost Shekli pljus blestjaschee ispolnenie vsego, za chto on ni bralsja, - ot korotenkogo rasskaza do romana i bolshoj povesti, - vyvodit fantasta Shekli za iskusstvennye ramki fantastiki, delaet ego literaturnym kosmopolitom, pisatelem na ljuboj vkus. Ego romany, povesti i rasskazy davno uzhe stali podlinnoj fantasticheskoj klassikoj nezavisimo ot togo, na kakom jazyke chitaet ikh mirovoj chitatel.

928 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2024

About the author

One 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.