"Watchbird"
| Title | "Watchbird" |
| Year for Search | 1953 |
| Authors | Sheckley, Robert(1928-2005) |
| Secondary Title | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 5.5 |
| Pagination | 74-95 |
| Date Published | Febraury 1953 |
| ISSN Number | 0016-4003 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | (1928-2005) |
| Full Text | 1953 Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005). “Watchbird.” Galaxy Science Fiction 5.5 (February 1953): 74-95. 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 Publishing, 1990 with a caricature by Frank Kelly Freas. HRC, Merril Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing. |
