"Love Incorporated"
| Title | "Love Incorporated" |
| Year for Search | 1956 |
| Authors | Sheckley, Robert(1928-2005) |
| Secondary Title | Playboy |
| Volume / Edition | 3.9 |
| Pagination | 16-18, 62, 76-77 |
| Date Published | September 1956 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion. |
| Additional Publishers | 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 Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril, PSt |
| Author Note | (1928-2005) |
| Full Text | 1956 Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005). “Love Incorporated.” Playboy (Chicago, IL) 3.9 (September 1956): 16-18, 62, 76-77. 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 Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56. Merril, PSt Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion. |
