"World of Heart's Desire"
| Title | "World of Heart's Desire" |
| Year for Search | 1959 |
| Authors | Sheckley, Robert(1928-2005) |
| Secondary Title | Playboy |
| Pagination | 73-74, 123 |
| Date Published | September 1959 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10. |
| Title Note | Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1928-2005) |
| Full Text | 1959 Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005). “World of Heart’s Desire.” Playboy (September 1959): 73-74, 123. Rpt. as “The Store of the Worlds.” In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10. PSt In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy. |
