Robert Sheckley, Author Tor Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-86804-8
A master of humorous SF and fantasy tackles, with only moderate success, the old tale of human desperation leading to war among the gods. In Florida, Professor of Comparative Mythology Arthur Fenn, facing financial ruin due to unsuccessful stock...
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Robert Sheckley, Author Forge $19.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-85023-4
In his first mystery in decades, SF author Sheckley ( The Game of X ) offers a zany romp featuring Hob Draconian, a not-so-ex-hippie and proprietor of the Alternative Detective Agency in New Jersey. Hob has an amazing number of old bohemian pals,...
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Robert Sheckley, Author Forge $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85130-9
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Robert Sheckley, Author Forge $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-86273-2
His Alternative Detective Agency barely scrapes by, but Ibiza-based Hob Draconian knows how to travel on the cheap. In his latest offbeat adventure (following The Alternative Detective, 1996), Hob is staying with a Paris woman he no longer likes,...
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Edited by Jonathan Letham and Alex Abramovich. NYRB Classics, $17.95 ISBN 978-1-59017-494-4
The late Sheckley (1928–2005) was known for a dark satirical style that keeps some of the more dated material in this retrospective collection fresh. At his sharpest, as in the alien-invasion tale “Shape,” Sheckley could mix complicated world-buildin
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