@booklet {1729, title = {"The Minimum Man"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = { 16.2}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 71-101; and\ in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana.\ Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 463-88.

}, month = {June 1958}, pages = {112-43}, abstract = {

The background of the story is an overpopulation dystopia desperate for suitable planets to colonize. The story is about a program to test planets by sending incompetent, accident prone explorers to test them; if they survive, anyone can.

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