@booklet {10099, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Future Lost{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omni}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 195-200.\ 

}, month = {August 1980}, pages = {88-90, 92}, abstract = {

Brief eutopia of a future that in eliminating aggression and ending war produced a society with completely free and open sexuality.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {3018, title = {"Body Game"}, howpublished = {Omni }, volume = {1.3 }, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 34-37.

}, month = {December 1978}, pages = {76-78, 114-15}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a rich/poor division based around the possibility of being able to purchase a new body when the old one wears out.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {10076, title = {"Sneak Previews"}, howpublished = {Penthouse}, volume = {8}, year = {1977}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 77-84.\ 

}, month = {August 1977}, pages = {69-71, 74}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future, presented as dystopian, in which marriage is required with a time limit on remaining single.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {2605, title = {"Welcome to the Standard Nightmare."}, howpublished = {Nova }, volume = {3}, year = {1973}, note = {

\ Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 85-99. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 11-24.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {3-21}, publisher = {Walker}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The \"standard nightmare\" is Earth meeting superior aliens, in this case on an alien eutopian planet. The eutopia has all the usual elements of a society in balance and has no government. A man from Earth decides to become the ruler and then decides to invade Earth.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)}, editor = {Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012)} } @booklet {10097, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Mnemone{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? }, year = {1971}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 245-53.

}, month = {1971}, pages = {104-15}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future dystopia in which most words have been lost, and some people, called Mnemones, travel from place to place selling words.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {2167, title = {"The People Trap"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {34.6 }, year = {1968}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance\ (New York: Dell, 1968), 7-26. and in\ The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 347-67 with an \“Introduction\” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

}, month = {June 1968}, pages = {54-69}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {2168, title = {"Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction }, volume = {26.3 }, year = {1968}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Liberated Future.\ Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 139-58; in\ The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 62-78.

}, month = {February 1968}, pages = {79-93}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia. Includes an automated city with a mother complex.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {2045, title = {The Tenth Victim}, year = {1966}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1966. Rpt. London: Methuen, 1987. Originated as \“The Seventh Victim\” Galaxy Science Fiction 6.1 (April 1953): 38-51. Story rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 300-11; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 109-22; in his The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 61-72; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 14-29 with an \“Introduction\” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

}, month = {1966}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of legal hunts of humans by other humans. See also 1958 and 1960 Sheckley.\ His Hunter/Victim. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a prequel, and his Victim Prime. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a sequel. The film Le Decima Vittima (1965) directed by Elio Petri (1929-82) with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) Giorgio Salvioni (d. 1994), Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), and Petri is based on \“The Seventh Victim\” and this is the novelization of the film.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1874, title = {Journey Beyond Tomorrow}, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley.\ Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 153-265. Abr. as \"Journey of Joenes.\"\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 23.4 - 5\ (October - November 1962): 71-128, 71-127.

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Signet}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Machine dominated dystopia contrasted with a simple life eutopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {10020, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Girls and Nugent Miller{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = {18.3 (106)}, year = {1960}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 227-37.\ 

}, month = {March 1960}, pages = {58-67}, abstract = {

The only male survivor of an atomic war, a mild-manner pacifist, discovers some young women led an older woman who tries to kill him. He loses his pacifism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1790, title = {"Omega"}, howpublished = {Amazing Science Fiction Stories }, volume = {34.8 - 9 }, year = {1960}, note = {

Repub. as\ The Status Civilization. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1968. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1976; rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1979.

}, month = {August - September 1960}, pages = {6-51, 64-134}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a prison planet where there is a religion of evil, much violence, and one succeeds through murder. This is contrasted with a eutopian earth that is ineffectual. Includes an early version of his human hunt. See 1958 and 1966 Sheckley.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1060-541X }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1767, title = {"World of Heart{\textquoteright}s Desire"}, howpublished = {Playboy}, year = {1959}, note = {

Rpt. as \"The Store of the Worlds.\" In his\ Store of Infinity\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17;\ and in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10.

}, month = {September 1959}, pages = {73-74, 123}, abstract = {

In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1714, title = {Immortality, Inc}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959; and in\ Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley.\ Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 17-151. Short version as \"Time Killer.\"\ Galaxy Magazine 16.6 - 17.3\ (October 1958 - February 1959): 4-46, 94-137; 104-41, 156-94. Another short version as\ Immortality Delivered. New York: Avalon, 1959.\ 

}, month = {1958}, publisher = {Avalon}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Suicide Act of 2102 in which a person joins a game as the Hunted and tries to elude professional killers. For different versions of the same theme, see 1960 and 1966 Sheckley.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @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)} } @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)} } @booklet {9950, title = {"Morning After"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {15.1}, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 259-78.\ 

}, month = {November 1967}, pages = {8-29}, abstract = {

Earth is a flawed utopia in which no one has to work and most things like food and entertainment is provided by politicians as part of their ongoing campaigns for election or re-election. People, though, are bored and the birth rate is going down while the suicide rate is going up.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1637, title = {"Love Incorporated"}, howpublished = {Playboy }, volume = {3.9 }, year = {1956}, note = {

Rpt. as \"Pilgrimage to Earth.\"\ Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology.\ Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 209-20; U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 209-20; in\ The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-18; and in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana.\ Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56.

}, month = {September 1956}, pages = {16-18, 62, 76-77}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1651, title = {"The Native Problem"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = {13.2}, year = {1956}, note = {

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and\ in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 357-74; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 145-67 with an \“Introduction\” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

}, month = {December 1956}, pages = {6-28}, abstract = {

Humorous story which begins on a future earth that is a dystopia of conformity.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1585, title = {"A Ticket to Tranai"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = { 11.1}, year = {1955}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Citizen in Space\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 108-47; in\ The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 241-77; and in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 251-82.

}, month = {October 1955}, pages = {6-43}, abstract = {

A dystopia is a supposed eutopia because there are no laws. But all women are kept in stasis, taxation is by robbery, divorce is by murder, and governmental change is by assassination.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1516, title = {"The Academy":}, howpublished = {If (Buffalo, NY)}, volume = {4}, year = {1954}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 143-64.

}, month = {August 1954}, pages = {45-62}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a society organized around Sanity Meters. The Academy provides drug induced dreams as an alternative to psychosurgery.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1517, title = {"Skulking Permit"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {9.3 }, year = {1954}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Citizen in Space\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 154-80; in\ The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 285-310; and in his\ The Masque of Ma{\~n}ana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 181-202.

}, month = {December 1954}, pages = {6-33}, abstract = {

Satire. An agrarian eutopia wants to be civilized so they appoint a criminal. He fails.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {8516, title = {"Watchbird"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction }, volume = {5.5}, year = {1953}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Notions Unlimited\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 27-46;\ in\ The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley Book Two\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 221-42;\ and in\ Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 73-96 with an \“Introduction\” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).\ Rpt. separately as Watchbird. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1990.

}, month = {Febraury 1953}, pages = {74-95}, abstract = {

Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Robert Sheckley (1928-2005)} } @booklet {1414, title = {"Cost of Living"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {5.3 }, year = {1952}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Untouched by Human Hands (New York: Ballantine Books, 1954), 12-23; in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology. Ed. , Brian W[ilson]. Aldiss and Sam Lundwall (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1986), 88-97;\ and in\ The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One\ (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 17-26.

}, month = {December 1952}, pages = {128-136}, abstract = {

Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children\&$\#$39;s, grandchildren\&$\#$39;s, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.

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