@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 {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 {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)} }