@booklet {1696, title = {"The Language of Love"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {14.1 }, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 369-80;\ in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 375-84; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 253-65 with an \“Introduction\” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

}, month = {May 1957}, pages = {39-50}, abstract = {

The setting of the story is a future eutopian earth in which the entire landscape is carefully tended, it rains as needed in the middle of the night, and all animals are in zoos. The story is about an inarticulate young man learning the rational language of love of extinct aliens and its effects.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} }