"The Native Problem"

Title"The Native Problem"
Year for Search1956
AuthorsSheckley, Robert(1928-2005)
Secondary TitleGalaxy Science Fiction
Volume / Edition13.2
Pagination6-28
Date PublishedDecember 1956
ISSN Number0016-4003
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

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

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and in his The Masque of Mañana. 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).

Author Note

(1928-2005)

Full Text

1956 Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005). “The Native Problem.” Galaxy Science Fiction 13.2 (December 1956): 6-28. Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and in his The Masque of Mañana. 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). CU-Riv, Merril

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