@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 {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)} }